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German Roman Catholics

  • Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus spent his final years in a small tower at Frombork, on the Baltic coast of Royal Prussia, watching the sky with a quadrant, a triquetrum…
  • Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven could no longer hear the applause his own music had earned. At the premiere on the 7th of May 1824, the contralto Caroline Unger had to…
  • Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was four years old when his father began teaching him minuets at the clavier, treating it as a game.
  • Wolfgang OverathWolfgang Overath spent his entire professional career at 1. FC Köln between 1962 and 1977. He appeared in 765 matches for the club during that fifteen-year…
  • Helmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl governed Germany for sixteen years, the longest chancellorship in the country's post-war history.
  • Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 6th of August 1806, a Habsburg monarch signed away a thousand years of European tradition. Francis II declared the bond tying him to the states of the…
  • Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria Walburga Mozart was born on Christmas Day, 1720, in the small town of St. Gilgen in the Archbishopric of Salzburg.
  • Maximilian III JosephMaximilian III Joseph, the Elector of Bavaria, died on the 30th of December 1777 without a single heir to his name. But what made his final weeks so…
  • Jacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach died on the 5th of October 1880, just months before the premiere of the opera he had spent years trying to finish.
  • Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer was elected the first chancellor of West Germany on the 15th of September 1949 by what observers called a majority of one vote, his own.
  • Johannes GutenbergIn 1455, Johannes Gutenberg completed a Bible with 42 lines on each page, and about 180 copies came off his press in Mainz.
  • Erwin RommelErwin Rommel rode into Tripoli on the 12th of February 1941 as commander of a freshly created desert force, the Afrika Korps, with orders to hold a defensive…
  • Leopold MozartLeopold Mozart spent the better part of his adult life in the shadow of a son he helped create. Born in Augsburg on the 14th of November 1719, he grew into a…
  • Manuel NeuerManuel Neuer made his Bundesliga debut with Schalke 04 on matchday two of the 2006, 07 season. He came on as a substitute for the injured Frank Rost during a…
  • Miroslav KloseMiroslav Klose scored 16 goals in the FIFA World Cup across four tournaments, a record no player has matched. He was born on the 9th of June 1978 in Opole, a…
  • Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg on the 21st of May 1471, the third child of a Hungarian goldsmith who had translated his own family name from the word…
  • Constanze MozartMaria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart entered the world on the 5th of January 1762 in Zell im Wiesental.
  • Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born on the 20th of November 1912 at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, at a moment when Austria-Hungary still stood as one of the…
  • Johann Joachim WinckelmannJohann Joachim Winckelmann was born on the 9th of December 1717 into poverty in Stendal, a town in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the son of a cobbler and…
  • Ferdinand von Hompesch zu BolheimFerdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim became the 71st Grand Master of the Knights of Malta in 1797, and within a year he had presided over one of the most…
  • Johann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was born on the 5th of September 1735 in Leipzig, Germany, the youngest son of one of the most towering figures in Western music.
  • Franz BeckenbauerFranz Beckenbauer lifted the World Cup trophy as a captain in 1974, then lifted it again as a manager in 1990. Only two other men in football history…