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April Geburtstage (Birthdays)

1Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Staatsmann und Politiker / statesman and politician; he was the chancellor who founded das deutsche Reich in 1871, with Prussia as the leading state, Berlin as the leading city, and Hohenzollern as the ruling family (aka Kaiser Wilhelm)

2Charlemagne (742-814)

Staatsmann, Politiker, und Feldherr / statesman, politician, and general, who was the founder of the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic Nation, who made the Franks the strongest Germanic tribe, and who converted many of his conquerors to Christianity; also known as Karl der Große

2Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Maler uind Bildhauer / painter and sculptor, who was one of the most important representatives of surrealism

3Helmut Kohl (1930-2017)

Politiker / politician, who is known as the Chancellor of Unity for his leadership during the fall of the Berlin Wall, for the peaceful unification of Germany, for the longest-serving head of government, and for serving as the Federal Chancellor for more than 16 years from 1982 to 1998

3Eric Braeden (1941-  )

Schauspieler / actor, who is an Emmy Award-winning German film and TV actor and is best known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless

4Georg Johannes von Trapp (1880-1947)

Kriegsmarineoffizier / Austro-Hungarian navy officer, whose naval exploits during World War One earned him numerous decorations, later married Maria Kutschera, who trained his children to sing, and later emigrated to the US instead of serving in the German navy in 1938 (Baron von Trapp and the Sound of Music)

5Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)

Musiker und Komponist / world famous musician, composer, and conductor from Salzburg, Austria, who directed the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for many years

5Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007)

Physiker und Philosoph / physicist and philosopher, who was a member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during World War Two, under Werner Heisenberg’s leadership

5Charles Steinmetz (1865-1923)

Mathemathiker und Elektrotechniker / German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer, who fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of electrical power industry in the US

9Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)

Heerführer / leader and general of the German army in World War One from 1916 to 1918

15Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

Maler, Dichter, und Zeichner / painter, poet, and cartoonist, whose works are full of jokes and humor; one of his most famous stories is Max und Moritz

20Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

Politiker / politician, who was the founder of das dritte Reich and Führer from 1933 to 1945

21Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852)

Pädagoge / educator and founder of the first Kindergarten in 1837

21Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Philosoph / philosopher, who wrote Critique of Pure Reason and whose ideas dealt with knowledge and wisdom being attained through experience

23Max Planck (1858-1947)

Physiker / physicist and creator of the quantrum theory in physics

26Alfred Krupp (1812-1887)

Herrscher der Kruppfamilie / leader of the Krupp family, who was the founder of a munitions company from the city of Essen, which makes steel products today (Big Bertha)

28Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)

Industrieller / ethnic German idustrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi party, who is credited with saving the lives of 12,000 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories

30Karl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855)

Mathematiker, Physiker, und Astronom / Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, who has a magnetic unit of measure named after him