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September
29 in German History September 29, 1686 Birth of Cosmas Damian Asam in Benediktbeuren, Germany. He and his brother, Egid Quirin were leading masters of the baroque style of illusionist decoration in the late baroque period. September 29, 1815 Birth of Andreas Achenbach in Kassel,
Germany. Achenbach was a landscape artist in the early part
of the period of Realism. September 29, 1867 Birth of Walther Rathenau in Berlin, Germany. It was Rathenau who directed the organization of the German economy to a war status during WWI. He was the son of Emil Rathenau, who had founded the Allgemeine-Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) (A company something like GE in the United States). As WWI started Walther Rathenau was the head of AEG. He was active in the development of workers' rights (Mitbestimmung) during the days of the Weimar Republic. Rathenau was assassinated by right wing radicals on June 24, 1922 in Berlin. September 29, 1913 Death of Rudolf Diesel on a ship on the English Channel. It was he who had invented the Diesel engine which now bears his name. Diesel was an engineer who did his college work at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. He patented his engine in 1892 but did not have it working to his satisfaction until 1897. In the years that followed he had huge problems with legal and financial matters. There has been some speculation that his disappearance from the ship in 1913 may have been suicide. September 29/30, 1938 Munich Accord giving Germany the Sudetenland (Chamberlain: "Peace in our times.") In 1938 amid growing concern about Adolf Hitler's aims, the British prime minister, Nevil Chamberlain traveled to Munich to try to make a deal with Hitler. It was there on the 29th and 30th of September, 1938 that Hitler and Chamberlain signed the Munich Accord. Chamberlain returned to London with the paper announcing that he had secured "Peace in our time" with the compromises made at Munich. Hitler viewed it as a green light to take over Czechoslovakia and prepare for his next conquest. September 29, 1950 East Germany (DDR) is taken into the Rat für Gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe (RGW), the East European organization for economic cooperation. Back to Today in German History Calendar |
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