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Orlando di Lasso was born in 1530 in Mons, Spanish Hainaut [now in Belgium]. He was a composer, known for The Flowers of War (2011), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Haunted Summer (1988). He died on 14 June 1594 in Munich, Germany.- Franz Hanfstaengl was born on 1 March 1804 in Baiernrain, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire [now Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Franziska Wegmaier. He died on 18 April 1877 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hermann von Schmid was born on 30 March 1815 in Waizenkirchen, Upper Austria, Austrian Empire. Hermann was a writer, known for Der bayerische Hiasel (1920). Hermann died on 19 October 1880 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Franz von Kobell was born on 19 July 1803 in Munich, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire [now Germany]. He was a writer, known for Das Tor zum Paradies (1949) and Der Brandner Kaspar und das ewig' Leben (1975). He was married to Karoline. He died on 11 November 1882 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Wilhelm Jensen was born on 15 February 1837 in Heiligenhafen, Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for Gradiva (1970) and It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2006). He was married to Marie Brühl. He died on 24 November 1911 in Munich, Germany.
- Paul Heyse was born on 13 March 1830 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Your Favorite Story (1953) and Zwei Liebesgeschichten (1980). He was married to Anna Schubart and Margaret Kugler. He died on 2 April 1914 in Munich, Germany.
- Ernst Mach was born on 18 February 1838 in Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He died on 19 February 1916 in Munich, Germany.
- Frank Wedekind was born on 24 July 1864 in Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Spring Awakening, Pandora's Box (1929) and Spring Awakening. He was married to Tilly Wedekind. He died on 9 March 1918 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Eduard von Keyserling was born on 2 May 1855 in Tels-Paddern, Kurland, Russia. He was a writer, known for The Treehouse, Comédie d'été (1989) and Die Galgenbrücke (1989). He died on 28 September 1918 in Munich, Germany.
- Kurt Eisner was born on 14 May 1867 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Elise Belli and Elisabeth Hendrich. He died on 21 February 1919 in Munich, Germany.
- Georg Queri was born on 30 April 1879 in Frieding, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer, known for Die Erbin vom Rosenhof (1942) and Der Komödienstadel (1959). He died on 21 November 1919 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Maximilian Schmidt was born on 25 February 1832 in Eschlkam, Upper Palatinate, Germany. He was a writer, known for Der Räuber von Kaitersberg (1917), Arbeit ist des Lebens Würze (1920) and Der Georgitaler (1920). He was married to Auguste Haßlacher. He died on 8 December 1919 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Max Weber was born on 21 April 1864 in Erfurt, Kingdom of Prussia [now Thuringia, Germany]. He died on 14 June 1920 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Lena Christ was born on 30 October 1881 in Glonn, Bavaria, Germany. She was a writer, known for Madame Bäurin (1993), Die Rumplhanni (1981) and Der Fall Lena Christ (1970). She was married to Peter Benedix and Anton Leix. She died on 30 June 1920 in Munich, Germany.
- Dora Pejacevic was born on 10 September 1885 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. She was a composer, known for Kontesa Dora (1993) and DORA - Flucht in die Musik (2022). She died on 5 March 1923 in Munich, Germany.
- Max Bernstein was born on 5 May 1854 in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany. Max was a writer, known for Die Mali (1920). Max was married to Elsa Porges. Max died on 9 March 1925 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Paul Rieth was born on 16 June 1871 in Pößneck, Germany. Paul was an art director, known for Husbands or Lovers (1924). Paul died on 15 May 1925 in Munich, Germany.- Erich Wagowski was born on 16 March 1896 in Lodz, Poland. Erich was a producer, known for Helen of Troy (1924) and Nathan der Weise (1922). Erich died on 24 May 1927 in Munich, Germany.
- Lina Meittinger was born on 18 November 1856 in Munich-Pasing, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (1921), Opfer des Lasters (1919) and Dämon Liebe (1921). She died on 10 August 1928 in Munich, Germany.
- Einar Forchhammer was born on 19 June 1868 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Min ven privatdetektiven (1924). He died on 15 August 1928 in Munich, Germany.
- Ernst Bach was born on 10 May 1876 in Eger, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for The Whole Town's Talking (1926), Wochenend im Paradies (1931) and Oh, Daddy! (1935). He died on 1 November 1929 in Munich, Germany.
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria was born on 9 February 1846 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Archduchess Gisela of Austria. He died on 28 September 1930 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Geli Raubal born Angela Maria Raubal, June 4, 1908 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary, was rumoured to be Adolf Hitler's mistress. Geli and her young sister Elfriede accompanied their mother, Angela Raubal, half sister of Adolf Hitler, when she became Hitler's housekeeper in 1925. Raubal was 17 at the time and spent the next six years in close contact with her half-uncle, who was 19 years her senior. Her mother was given a position as housekeeper at the Berghof villa near Berchtesgaden in 1928. Geli Raubal moved into Hitler's Munich, Prinzregentenplatz apartment in 1929, when she enrolled in medicine at Ludwig Maximillian University. She did not complete her medical studies. On the morning of Sept 19,1931, members of Hitler's staff found Geli Raubal dead from a gunshot wound to the lung in her room in Hitler's Munich apartment, Prinzregentenplatz 16 second floor. Hermann Göring would later tell attorneys at the Nuremberg trials that Geli Raubal's death (1931) had devastated Hitler to such an extent that it changed his views and relationships with all other people.
- Hermann Nesselträger was born on 15 December 1870 in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for George Bully (1920), Das Geheimnis einer Stunde (1925) and Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh (1925). He died on 21 February 1932 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Max Nadler was born on 11 October 1875 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die verkaufte Braut (1932), Die vierzig Sterbenden (1922) and Der Totenkopf (1920). He died on 3 October 1932 in Munich, Germany.- Although somewhat forgotten these days, Max Adalbert was a great name of the German theater at he beginning of the twentieth century. Born Max Kampf in Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) Max Adalbert worked in Lübeck, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Vienna and Berlin (Kleines Theater, Reinhardt-Bühnen). During the silent period he appeared in two masterpieces by Fritz Lang 'Der müde Tod' and 'Dr. Mabuse der Spieler'. After a few years solely devoted to the boards Adalbert successfully returned to the cinema. He was very good in 'Mein Leopold' but it is 'Der Hauptmann von Köpenick' that earned him most acclaim. A heart attack brutally broke this virtuous circle.
- Hermann Bahr was born on 19 July 1863 in Linz, Austria. He was a writer, known for Romance in the Dark (1938), Fashions in Love (1929) and The Concert (1921). He was married to Anna von Mildenburg and Rosa Jokl. He died on 15 January 1934 in Munich, Germany.
- Hans Lanser-Ludolff was born on 19 June 1850 in Bonn, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Call of the Child (1914), Der Skandal im Viktoria-Club (1919) and Der Schatten der Gaby Leed (1921). He died on 19 January 1934 in Munich, Germany.
- Hans Lanser-Ludolff was born on 19 June 1860 in Bonn, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wer wirft den ersten Stein auf sie? (1916), Johannistraum (1919) and Das rote Plakat (1920). He died on 19 January 1934 in Munich, Germany.
- P.L. Troost was born on 17 August 1878 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. He died on 21 January 1934 in Munich, Germany.
- Born in Munich in 1887, Ernst Röhm joined the German army as a teenager and served in World War I. He became acquainted with Adolf Hitler in 1919. Hitler shrewdly took note of Röhm's intensely militaristic nature, his experience in the war and the fact that he was the leader of an extreme right-wing paramilitary organization called the Frontbann--one of many such units, called "freikorps", that existed in Germany at the time--and he persuaded Röhm to join his fledgling Nazi party.
Röhm, along with Hitler, was among the Nazi participants in the abortive "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923, and within a few years he took on a major role in the development of the Nazi party. He formed a group called the Sturmabteilung, or SA--the notorious "Storm Troopers", comprised mainly of street thugs, brawlers, ex-convicts and fanatical right-wing German nationalists. Röhm turned them into a tough, disciplined military unit, fanatically devoted to Hitler and Naziism. The SA took part in many violent clashes with Nazi opponents on both the left and the right, and were responsible for the deaths of quite a few, whether as the result of street fights or outright political murders. The unit soon gained a fearsome reputation, which eventually proved to be Röhm's undoing.
As the SA began to become more widely known and feared, Röhm wanted it to be independent of the Nazi party's political arm and also wanted to be able to act on his own. Hitler, in his desire to exercise complete control over all facets of the party's structure, expressly forbade this, and soon began to suspect Röhm of plotting a coup against him, especially when he discovered that most of the senior SA leadership was more devoted to Röhm than they were to him. Hitler also had instructed Röhm to tone down the increasingly radical behavior of his "brownshirts", which were beginning to give the Nazi party a bad name (one of the reasons the party usually did so poorly in elections was the public's revulsion at and distrust of the SA's tactics). The situation resulted in Röhm's resigning from the party and taking a job in South America training the Bolivian army. However, although Hitler placed men more to his liking in charge of the SA, the unit began getting more and more out of control, finally incurring the enmity of the German army, which demanded that Hitler clamp down on the SA or it would do so. Desperate to avoid any confrontation with the army--whose support he knew he would need when it came time for him to grab power--Hitler re-installed Röhm as head of the SA to bring it back under control. However, not only did the SA grow even more violent and unpredictable under Röhm, but he managed to mollify the army and even secured use of military facilities at which to train his men, whose numbers were now increased by Röhm's absorption of several independent paramilitary groups into the SA. By this time the Nazi party was beginning to accumulate some political power in Germany, and the SA's continuing violence and brutal tactics were threatening to undermine that power. By 1934 it had grown to more than two million members--more than 20 times the strength of the regular German army, which now looked upon it in alarm as both a rival for power and a threat to Germany itself. In addition, Röhm's ardent socialism alienated many of the wealthy businessmen and industrialists who bankrolled the Nazi party, and his blatant homosexuality--and that of many of the SA's top leaders--were beginning to cost Hitler support among conservative religious and political groups, which up to then had backed him strongly. Hitler also again suspected that Röhm and the SA were planning a coup against him now that they believed they were stronger than Hitler and his colleagues.
On the night of June 29, 1934, the leadership of the SA held an important meeting in Munich, which Hitler promised to attend. Instead, he sent several carloads of SS troops there, and they arrested Röhm and the other top leaders of the SA. Other arrests of SA leaders took place in cities around the country, and many others were simply shot as soon as they were located. Röhm and much of the SA leadership were thrown into prison, and Röhm himself was shot by two SS executioners in his cell when he refused to commit suicide. It is estimated that several hundred SA officials were killed that night and in the following several days, a period that has become known as the "Night of the Long Knives", although the real numbers will never be known. The SA was disbanded, with some of its members being absorbed into the SS, and one more threat to Hitler's grab for absolute power in Germany was eliminated. - After his school days, Hugo Junkers studied in Charlottenburg, Karlsruhe and Aachen at the technical universities there. In 1883 he passed his examination to become a construction manager. He then worked as a designer for various companies. In 1888 he moved to the Continental company in Dessau. Together with Wilhelm Oechelhäuser, he founded the "experimental station for gas engines". In 1892, the development of the first two-stroke opposed-piston gas engine was completed and production began. In the same year he patented his invention of the calorimeter, a device for determining gas heating values. In 1894 he invented the first gas bath heater. Hugo Junkers founded his own company called "Junkers & Co" in Dessau in 1895, where he manufactured gas appliances. From 1897 to 1912 he was professor of thermal engineering and thermodynamics at the Aachen University of Technology. In 1898 he married Therese Bennhold from Dessau. A total of twelve children were born from this union. In 1902 he founded a research laboratory in Aachen where he worked on oil engines. Junkers further developed the heavy oil aircraft engine to operational readiness.
From 1909 he concentrated on building aircraft. The following year he patented a new type of wing that he had developed. The special feature of the cantilevered large wing is the use of its interior space. In 1913 he founded the company "Junkers Motorenbau GmbH". In 1915, Hugo Junkers succeeded in building the first all-metal aircraft under the name J 1. According to the wishes of the Supreme Army Command "OHL", the Junkers works worked with the Dutch fighter designer and aviator Anthony H. G. Fokker to build an all-metal military aircraft. After the First World War, Hugo Junkers founded "Junkers-Flugzeugwerke AG" in Dessau. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was banned from building aircraft and aircraft engines for a period of six months. Junkers wanted to get around this by outsourcing its production to Russia and Sweden. In the same year the F 13, an all-metal aircraft, was built. It is significant for having got German commercial aviation going. In the next few years, Hugo Junkers produced numerous aircraft models under the names W 33, G 24, G 31 or G 38.
The W33 made the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic in 1928. From that year onwards, the legendary Ju 52, also affectionately known as the Aunt Ju, was manufactured. By the 1940s, the machine had become the most frequently built aircraft in the world. In 1921, Hugo Junkers founded the "Air Transport Department of the Junkerswerke" to regulate domestic air traffic. In 1926, "Junkers Luftverkehr AG" was merged into "Deutsche Lufthansa". In 1923, the aircraft manufacturer founded the company "Junkers Motorenbau GmbH" in Dessau. In the same year, aircraft manufacturing operations were opened in Fili near Moscow. Economic connections to the Bauhaus in Dessau developed and with them a friendly relationship with the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius. In 1933, the year the National Socialists came to power, Junkers had to hand over his patents and his shares in his companies to the Third Reich under pressure from the Nazi regime. He then withdrew into private life and devoted himself to research into the construction of high-rise buildings made of metal. During the Second World War, the Junkers factory developed into the largest forge of military aircraft. Among other things, the legendary Ju 88 dive bomber (Stuka) was built here.
Hugo Junkers died on February 3, 1935 in Gauting near Munich. - Vittorio Güttner was born on 24 April 1869 in Austria. He was an actor, known for Hyänen der Welt. 2. Die einsame Insel (1921), Hyänen der Welt. 1. Opfer der Hyänen (1921) and Die Eisenbahnräuber (1920). He died on 5 December 1935 in Munich, Germany.
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Max Schreck was born in Berlin. He worked in an apprenticeship until his father's death before enrolling into a school for acting. He toured the country with his peers and was a member of several theaters until he became a part of Max Reinhardt's group of innovative German actors. He played mostly out of the norm characters, the elderly and the grotesque, because of his talent and passion for make-up and costume fabrication. Although film was a challenge in which he excitedly and hopefully participated, he had small roles in films that are scarcely available, and his real career was in German theatre. He played hundreds of roles in his lifetime. He was married to Fanny Normann, a fellow performer whom he met a short time after his actor's education and shared many times with on stage. They had no children. He died on the morning of February 20th, 1936 from a heart attack.- Art Director
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Leo Pasetti was born on 17 March 1882 in Russia. Leo was an art director and costume designer, known for Helen of Troy (1924), Das Opfer der Isis (1919) and Bluff (1919). Leo died on 24 January 1937 in Munich, Germany.- Armand Zäpfel was born on 20 January 1890. He was an actor, known for Peer Gynt (1934), Das verlorene Tal (1934) and The Fugitive from Chicago (1934). He died on 7 May 1937 in Munich, Germany.
- Siegfried von Redwitz was born on 3 January 1896 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Entlarvung: Abenteuer einer Braut (1921), Manuela, Frau ohne Nerven (1922) and Der gelbe Würger (1921). He died on 7 February 1939 in Munich, Germany.
- Magda Lena was born on 14 June 1883 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Tunnel (1933), Peer Gynt (1934) and Die vertauschte Braut (1934). She died on 22 January 1940 in Munich, Germany.
- Emil Höfer was born on 14 May 1864 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren (1926), Der Geier von St. Veit (1917) and White Majesty (1933). He died on 1 May 1940 in Munich, Germany.
- Karl Gelfius was born in 1890 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Der Feuerteufel (1940) and Enemies (1940). He died on 1 September 1940 in Munich, Germany.
- Max Ferner was born on 18 April 1881. He was a writer, known for Der Schuß im Pavillon (1925), The Mountain Eagle (1926) and Das Geheimnis einer Stunde (1925). He died on 5 October 1940 in Munich, Germany.
- Max Neal was born on 26 March 1865 in Munich, Germany. He was a writer, known for Ein Tropfen schwarzes Blut (1919), Der müde Theodor (1918) and Der Hochtourist (1942). He died on 1 January 1941 in Munich, Germany.
- Hans Wallner was born on 14 June 1865 in Graz, Styria, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Er oder ich (1930), Nanette (1940) and O Mädchen, mein Mädchen, wie lieb' ich Dich! (1930). He died on 19 January 1941 in Munich, Germany.
- Eufemia Gräfin von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem was born on 18 August 1854 in Ratibor, Silesia, Germany. She was a writer, known for Aus Mangel an Beweisen (1916), Tscherkessenblut (1919) and Der Amönenhof (1920). She was married to Joseph Fritz von Adlersfeld. She died on 26 April 1941 in Munich, Germany.
- Philipp Weichand was born on 11 January 1875 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Prince Seppl (1932), Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau (1937) and Fürst Seppl (1915). He died on 16 May 1941 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Dominik Löscher was born on 30 March 1877 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Der Tod von Phaleria (1919), This Ancient Law (1923) and Die graue Macht (1923). He died on 1 November 1941 in Munich, Germany.
- Luise Westkirch was born on 8 July 1853 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was a writer, known for The Sunken (1926), Der Staatsanwalt (1920) and Aus den Tiefen der Großstadt (1921). She died on 7 November 1941 in Munich, Germany.
- Georg Hirschfeld was born on 11 February 1873 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Das graue Haus (1926), Das schöne Mädel (1923) and Die Frau im Feuer (1924). He was married to Hedwig Hassel and ???. He died on 17 January 1942 in Munich, Germany.
- Justus Paris was born on 19 February 1885 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for Venus vor Gericht (1941), Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939) and Enemies (1940). He died on 3 March 1942 in Munich, Germany.
- Max Bayrhammer was born on 26 May 1867 in Schloss Baumgarten, Baumgarten, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Bergschrecken (1919), Der Friedl vom Hochland (1918) and Fremdenlegionär Kirsch (1921). He was married to Elfriede. He died on 15 April 1942 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.