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64
Years
6800 BCE to 2020
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Europe
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European families, Literature and art, Jewish law and estates, Science and medicine
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House of Wittelsbach, House of Hanover, Fugger family, Rothschild family, Krupp family
Updated
30 October 2026
Angela Merkel: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, chairperson of the CDU1956 · Seebüll, GermanyAngela Merkel returned two Emil Nolde paintings to the Berlin museum foundation in April 2019, as a Nationalgalerie show detailed his Nazi loyaltyEmil Nolde was a Nazi Party member and, per his letters, stayed loyal to the regime until the end of the war.smb.museum and 3 moreHermann Göring: Hermann Goering - Nuremberg 2 (cropped)1946 · Carinhall, Germany; Cologne, Germany; Munich, GermanyHitler was godfather to Göring's daughter, the city of Cologne gave her a Cranach, and she lost the painting in 1968 and her father's estate in 2015Edda Göring was born in Berlin on 2 June 1938, the only child of Hermann Göring and Emmy Sonnemann. At her baptism at Carinhall on 4 November 1938, Adolf Hitler was her godfather.thelocal.de and 2 moreErwin Rommel: Erwin-Rommel-19411944 · In a car between Herrlingen and Wippingen, WürttembergRommel took poison on 14 October 1944 in exchange for a state funeral and pensions for his familyFrom October 1943 Erwin Rommel's family lived at Wippinger Steige 13 in Herrlingen. Until 1939 the house had belonged to a Jewish boarding school run by Hugo Rosenthal.ifz-muenchen.de and 3 moreAdolf Hitler: Hitler portrait crop (cropped)(2)1954 · Schwangau, West GermanyHitler paid his field marshals 4,000 Reichsmarks a month and gave Guderian a confiscated Polish estateHitler ran a secret fund called Konto 5, managed by Hans Lammers. It grew from about 150,000 RM in 1933 to about 40 million RM by 1945.journals.uchicago.edu and 3 moreAI illustration: The Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg with its four brick chimneys2019 · Rosenheim, Germany, after collapsing at a restaurant in AschPorsche tried to buy Volkswagen and ended up owned by it, and Ferdinand Piëch was later forced out of VWFerdinand Piëch, born in Vienna in 1937, was a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche. The Porsche and Piëch families own the Porsche holding company. Piëch ran Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 and then chaired its supervisory board.porsche-se.com and 8 moreFriedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche187a1900 · Weimar, GermanyNietzsche's sister took control of his papers while he was insane, published The Will to Power, and Hitler came to her funeralFriedrich Nietzsche collapsed mentally in 1889. His sister Elisabeth had left for Paraguay in 1887, where she and her husband Bernhard Förster founded a German colony, Nueva Germania; Förster killed himself there on 3 June 1889.Wikipedia (English)AI illustration: Shoppers outside a grocery shop on an Essen street, early 1970s2012 · Essen, GermanyAldi's Theo Albrecht was ransomed for 7 million marks, and his son's widow fought the family foundation for a decadeOn 29 November 1971 the lawyer Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and the safe-cracker Paul Kron kidnapped Aldi Nord founder Theo Albrecht outside the company offices in Herten. He was held 17 days.iww.de and 7 moreAI illustration: Boats with lanterns search Lake Starnberg below Berg Castle for Ludwig II, 13 June 18861886 · Lake Starnberg, near Berg Castle, BavariaBavaria deposed Ludwig II as insane over his castle debts, he died in a lake the day after his arrest, and Neuschwanstein opened to paying visitors within weeksLudwig II became King of Bavaria in 1864. The foundation stone of Neuschwanstein was laid on 5 September 1869, and he moved in in 1884. It cost 6.2 million gold marks, nearly twice the estimate.neuschwanstein.de and 5 moreMax Liebermann: Hilsdorf, Jacob - Max Liebermann (Zeno Fotografie)1935 · BerlinMax Liebermann's widow Martha killed herself in March 1943 as police came to deport her, and in 2025 a Dutch committee advised returning a Liebermann drawing from the Rijksmuseum to her heirsMax Liebermann left his studio and collection to his wife Martha. In December 1938 she surrendered silver and jewellery and was barred from the family house on Pariser Platz.Dutch Restitutions Committee and 3 moreAI illustration: A small private bank building with an unmarked facade in Vaduz below Liechtenstein's castle2008 · Bochum, GermanyDeutsche Post's chief hid money in a Liechtenstein foundation, a bank clerk sold the data, and he was convicted in 2009Klaus Zumwinkel ran Deutsche Post from 1990 to 2008 and sat on the board of trustees of the Bertelsmann Stiftung from 2001 to 2004. On 14 February 2008 investigators raided his home on suspicion of evading about €1 million in tax.Der Spiegel and 2 moreAlfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach: Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach1967 · Essen, West GermanyAlfried Krupp was convicted at Nuremberg, got his property back in 1951, and left the firm to a foundation instead of his sonAlfried Krupp became sole owner of the Essen arms maker in 1943. On 1 January 1943 the firm employed about 25,000 prisoners of war, foreign civilians and forced labourers; historians put the wartime total at 100,000 or more.krupp-stiftung.de and 6 moreAI illustration: Framed and unframed artworks stacked in a Munich flat, 20122014 · MunichA recluse found with 1,406 artworks in his Munich flat left them all to a Swiss museum, and his cousin said he was not of sound mindCornelius Gurlitt's father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was a museum director and art dealer who sold Nazi-looted art. Cornelius inherited the collection after his mother died in 1968.Internet Archive and 4 moreWolfgang Wagner: Conférence de Wolfgang Wagner dans la fosse du Festspielhaus lors du festival 20042010 · Bayreuth, GermanyWagner's grandson held a lifetime contract at Bayreuth, refused to leave when the board named his daughter's rival, and handed the festival to his daughters at 89Richard Wagner opened his festival theatre at Bayreuth in 1876.historynewsnetwork.org and 5 moreRainer Werner Fassbinder: PER51895 0611982 · Munich, West GermanyFassbinder's first wife said the head of his foundation invented a marriage to him to control his estate, and 25 colleagues demanded she resignRainer Werner Fassbinder died in Munich on 10 June 1982, aged 37, leaving about 40 films and many plays. His copyrights passed to his mother, Liselotte Eder, and his father, Helmuth Fassbinder.presseportal.de and 3 moreOregon Supreme Court Building circa 1922: Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem. From: Carey, Charles Henry. (1922). History of Oregon. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co.1962 · Oregon, USA; East GermanyOregon claimed a dead woman's estate because her only heirs lived in East Germany, and the Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that a state cannot run its own Cold War through probateAn Oregon resident, Pauline Schrader, died without a will in 1962. Her only heirs, including Oswald Zschernig, lived in East Germany.Cornell Law School, LII and 3 moreFriedrich Schiller: Portrait of Friedrich Schillerlabel QS:Len,"Portrait of Friedrich Schiller"label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Friedrich Schiller"1805 · Weimar, GermanyWeimar buried a skull as Friedrich Schiller's in 1827; DNA tests in 2008 showed it and the skeleton were not hisSchiller died on 9 May 1805 and was buried three days later in the Kassengewölbe, a common vault in Weimar's Jacobs cemetery.NBC News and 2 moreMax Warburg: Max Warburg 19051946 · New York; bank in HamburgThe Nazis forced Max Warburg to give up M.M. Warburg & Co in 1938; his son Eric needed until 1970 to restore the family nameM.M. Warburg & Co was the Warburg family's private bank in Hamburg. Max Warburg led it after 1933. After Hjalmar Schacht left the Economics Ministry in August 1937, Max was dropped from the Reich bond consortium.Internet Archive and 6 moreKevadon (thalidomide), 1960: In 1960, the FDA received a new drug application for a sedative, thalidomide, used for years in other countries to treat a variety of maladies, includi1970 · Stolberg and Aachen, GermanyGrünenthal paid 100 million marks into a foundation for thalidomide victims, and a 1971 law wiped out their claims against the companyThe Wirtz family founded Chemie Grünenthal in Stolberg in 1946. On 1 October 1957 it began selling the sedative Contergan, thalidomide, without prescription.servat.unibe.ch and 4 moreMerck Engelapotheke: Merck's Engel-Apotheke (Angels-Pharmacy) in the second half of the 17th century in Darmstadt1926 · Rahway, New Jersey, USA, and Darmstadt, GermanyA Merck grandson handed the family's American shares to the US government in 1917, and the two Merck companies have fought over the name ever sinceIn 1668 Friedrich Jacob Merck bought the Engel pharmacy in Darmstadt. The business grew into the family partnership E. Merck. In 1887 it opened a sales office in New York.The National Archives, Find Case Law and 4 moreMayer Amschel Rothschild: Mayer Amschel Rothschild1812 · Frankfurt am MainMayer Amschel Rothschild's 1812 will shut his daughters and sons-in-law out of the bank; the Frankfurt house closed in 1901 for lack of a male heirMayer Amschel Rothschild built a banking business from the Frankfurt Jewish quarter. He had five sons and five daughters: Jeanette, Isabella, Babette, Julie and Henrietta.rothschildarchive.org and 5 moreAI illustration: Villa Hügel, the Krupp family house above the Ruhr at Essen, 19671967 · Essen, West GermanyArndt von Bohlen und Halbach gave up the Krupp inheritance for 2 million marks a year so a foundation could own the companyAlfried Krupp, convicted at Nuremberg as a war criminal, ran Fried. Krupp as a sole proprietorship. His only child, Arndt, born in 1938, was not accepted by the family, according to his biographer.Internet Archive and 3 moreChâteau Mouton Rothschild, where the story took place1945 · Château Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Gironde, France; RavensVichy expropriated the Rothschild vineyards at Pauillac, and Philippe de Rothschild's wife died at Ravensbrück before Mouton came back to the familyNathaniel de Rothschild bought the Brane-Mouton vineyard in Pauillac in 1853 and renamed it Mouton Rothschild. The 1855 Bordeaux classification left it out of the first growths.The New York Times and 4 moreMarienburg Castle (Hanover), where the story took place2020 · Schloss Marienburg, Pattensen, Lower SaxonyThe heir of the House of Hanover offered Marienburg Castle to the state for one euro, and his father sued him for gross ingratitudeKing George V of Hanover built Marienburg from 1858 to 1867 as a birthday present for Queen Marie. In 1866 Prussia annexed Hanover and the royal family left for Austria. The castle then stood mostly empty for almost 80 years.lto.de and 7 moreAI illustration: A closed drugstore with empty shelves in a German town, 20122016 · Ehingen (Donau), GermanyAnton Schlecker's drugstore chain collapsed in 2012, and his son and daughter went to prison for taking 7 million euros out firstAnton Schlecker opened his first drugstore in 1975. By 2008 the chain had more than 15,000 stores in Europe and about 50,000 staff. He ran it as a registered sole trader, so he was personally liable for its debts.bundesgerichtshof.de and 2 moreKarlsruhe BGH 2: Karlsruhe, Bundesgerichtshof, Westgebäude und Nordgebäude von Süden gesehen (von der Kriegsstraße)2012 · Berlin and Karlsruhe, GermanyA 15-year-old died under a subway train, and her parents fought Facebook for eight years to read her messagesA girl joined Facebook in 2011, at 14, with her parents' consent. In 2012, aged 15, she died in a subway accident whose circumstances are still unclear. Facebook put her account into memorial status, which locked her parents out.bundesgerichtshof.de and 3 moreRudolf August Oetker: Rudolf August Oetker (cropped)2007 · HamburgRudolf-August Oetker's eight children from three marriages split the Dr. Oetker group in two in 2021Rudolf-August Oetker ran the Bielefeld baking-powder company from 1944 to 1981 and built it into a group of about 350 companies. He had joined the Waffen-SS in 1942.wiwo.de and 5 moreAI illustration: Cologne Cathedral above the old town and the Rhine2005 · CologneSal. Oppenheim survived the Nazis under another name, then lost its independence over loans to the Karstadt heiressSalomon Oppenheim Jr. founded the bank in Bonn in 1789 and moved it to Cologne in 1798. In January 1936, under Nazi party pressure, the Jewish partners Otto Kaufmann, Wilhelm Chan and Hermann Leubsdorff left.au.news.yahoo.com and 8 moreAI illustration: Probate files tied with tape on a shelf in a Saarland district court, 19981998 · Saarland, GermanyA German woman born in 1948 lost her father's estate to relatives he never met, and Europe's human rights court ruled for herBrigitte Brauer was born in 1948 in Oberschwöditz, in what became East Germany. Her father, Mr Schildgen, recognised her a few months after the birth. He lived in West Germany.European Court of Human Rights and 3 moreAI illustration: A meat-packing plant in the flat farmland of Westphalia, 1990s1994 · MünsterRobert Tönnies sued his uncle Clemens to take back a 5 percent gift in the family meat groupBernd Tönnies founded a meat trading business in Rheda in 1971. His brother Clemens joined him, and in 1982 Bernd gave Clemens 40 percent. Bernd died on 1 July 1994, aged 42, after a kidney transplant.afz.fleischwirtschaft.de and 8 moreBundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe: Bundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe1994 · Cologne court district, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyA German mother disinherited the son who attacked her, he killed her a month later, and two courts still awarded him his compulsory shareA widow had two sons. In 1982 her will named one of them sole heir. The other son had a schizophrenic psychosis and lived with her in her house. He attacked her repeatedly.servat.unibe.ch and 3 moreAI illustration: Silver, porcelain and furniture laid out for auction in a palace hall at St. Emmeram, Regensburg, 1993, full-bleed picture with no border or page1990 · Klinikum Großhadern, MunichGloria von Thurn und Taxis auctioned the family treasures and handed 2,200 objects to Bavaria to settle her husband's estateThe Thurn und Taxis fortune came from the mail. Leonhard I von Taxis was Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire in 1595, and in 1615 the office became hereditary in the family.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de and 12 moreBodenreform-Urkunde-1945-1947: Bodenreformurkunde 1947 (weil Saatzuchtgut erst verspätet)1976 · Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Brandenburg, GEast Germany gave Junker land to new farmers in 1945, and reunified Germany took it back from their heirs without compensationIn September 1945 the Soviet occupation zone confiscated every holding over 100 hectares.menschenrechte.ac.at and 1 moreRudolf-Dassler: Tombstone of Rudolf Dassler, showing his real birthdate, 29th of April 18981974 · Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, GermanyPuma's founder left everything to one son, the other son won control in court, and the Dassler brothers lie at opposite ends of one cemeteryAdolf and Rudolf Dassler registered Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik in Herzogenaurach in 1924. Both joined the Nazi party in 1933. Jesse Owens wore their shoes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.deutsche-biographie.de and 4 moreAI illustration: Coffee beans pouring from a roaster in a Hamburg roastery, 20011965 · HamburgTchibo heir Günter Herz was forced out by his family in 2001 and sold out with his sister for an estimated $5 billionMax Herz founded Tchibo in Hamburg on 15 March 1949 with Carl Tchiling-Hiryan, who soon left. He died of a heart attack in 1965, aged 59.Forbes and 7 moreAI illustration: A villa in Hamburg-Blankenese at night, 19961959 · HamburgCigarette heir Jan Philipp Reemtsma sold his inheritance and was kidnapped for a 30 million mark ransomPhilipp F. Reemtsma ran Germany's largest cigarette maker. In 1933 and 1934 he gave large sums to Nazi organisations to protect the firm. Göring shielded him in a 1934 tax case and in 1939 named him a war economy leader.deutsche-biographie.de and 8 moreHugo Stinnes: Hugo Stinnes ca18901924 · Berlin and Mülheim an der Ruhr, GermanyHugo Stinnes had a hand in more than 4,000 companies when he died in 1924, and his sons lost most of them within a yearHugo Stinnes was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr on 12 February 1870 into a coal trading family. He bought most of his empire on credit and repaid in inflated marks.deutsche-biographie.de and 2 moreHauser Kreul: Kaspar Hauser1833 · Ansbach, Bavaria, GermanyA rumour said Kaspar Hauser was the stolen heir to the throne of Baden; he was stabbed to death in 1833, and a 2024 DNA study ruled out the Baden lineKaspar Hauser is a claimed lost heir whose claim was never proven. On 26 May 1828 a teenager appeared in Nuremberg carrying two letters, later judged to be in one hand. He said he had grown up in a dungeon.bath.ac.uk and 2 moreErnst Abbe: Ernst Abbe (HeidICON 29803) (cropped)1905 · Jena, GermanyErnst Abbe gave the Zeiss works to a foundation, and after 1945 a western and an eastern Zeiss sued each other over the name for 17 yearsCarl Zeiss founded an optical workshop in Jena in 1846. Physicist Ernst Abbe became his partner in 1875. Zeiss died on 3 December 1888. On 19 May 1889 Abbe founded the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung and named it after him.carl-zeiss-stiftung.de and 2 moreErstausgabe von Mein Kampf: First edition of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf", July 1925. An exhibit of the German Historical Museum in Berlin1945 · Berlin, Germany; Munich and Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, GermanyHitler willed his property to the Nazi Party, a Munich court gave it to Bavaria, and Bavaria used his copyright to block Mein Kampf for 70 yearsIn the Berlin bunker on 29 April 1945, Adolf Hitler signed a private will. His possessions were to go to the Nazi Party, or, if it no longer existed, to the State. His paintings were for a gallery in Linz.jewishvirtuallibrary.org and 3 moreFranz Koenigs1941 · Cologne railway stationFranz Koenigs lost his drawings to a bank five weeks before the German invasion; Hitler bought 528 and the Dutch state has refused his heirs four timesFranz Koenigs, a German-born banker, co-founded Rhodius Koenigs in Amsterdam in 1920 and became Dutch in February 1939. In 1935 his collection held 2,145 drawings and 47 paintings, on loan to Museum Boymans in Rotterdam.Dutch Restitutions Committee and 5 moreBerlin, Leipziger Platz mit Warenhaus Wertheim, 1910: Berlin, Leipziger Platz mit Warenhaus Wertheim1939 · Berlin, GermanyThe Wertheims lost Berlin's Leipziger Platz store under Nazi laws, Germany gave the land to Karstadt in 1991, and Karstadt paid €88 million in 2007Abraham and Ida Wertheim opened a shop in Stralsund in 1875, and their sons Georg and Hugo took it over in 1876.jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com and 3 moreHugo Junkers 1920: Hugo Junkers1935 · Gauting, near Munich, GermanyThe Nazi state forced Hugo Junkers to give up his patents and his company, and he died under house arrest on his 76th birthdayHugo Junkers founded Junkers & Co. in Dessau in 1895 and pioneered all-metal aircraft. His Ju 52 entered service in 1930.stories.technik-museum.de and 3 morePalais Petschek (Petschkův palác) in der Prager Neustadt Eingang: Eingang zum Palais Petschek (Petschkův palác) in der Prager Neustadt, Politických vězňů im März 2022. Drehort des 1934 · Aussig (Ústí nad Labem), Czech Republic; Prague, Czech RepubGöring took over "the Petschek question" in 1938, Flick's companies got the mines, and the Nuremberg court said the seizure was outside its jurisdictionIgnaz Petschek was born in Kolin in 1857 and founded his own coal firm in Aussig in 1880. His group came to control large lignite companies in Germany.deutsche-biographie.de and 5 moreYoung-Anleihe 1930 1000$: Amerikanische Tranche der Young-Anleihe: Deutsches Reich (Internationale Anleihe des Deutschen Reiches 1930 - German Government International Loan 1930) 51919 · Berlin, GermanyGermany paid the last interest on its 1920s reparation loans on 3 October 2010, 92 years after the First World War endedThe 1919 Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for the war and required reparations. In 1921 the total was set at 132 billion marks.peacepalacelibrary.nl and 2 moreAuffahrt, Flug u. Ende des Zeppelin'schen Luftschiffes Modell 4: Wreckage of the Zeppelin LZ4 after the crash in Echterdingen1917 · Friedrichshafen, GermanyGermans gave Count Zeppelin 6 million marks after his airship burned, and his great-grandson has spent ten years trying to take the foundation back from a cityOn 5 August 1908 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's airship LZ 4 burned at Echterdingen near Stuttgart. Germans sent more than 6 million marks in small donations within weeks.aerointernational.de and 5 moreHerero chained: Herero chained during the 1904 rebellion.1904 · Shark Island, Lüderitz, Namibia, and Berlin, GermanyGermany sent the heads of Herero and Nama prisoners to Berlin for race research, and the Charité returned 20 skulls to Namibia in 2011Between 1904 and 1908 German forces put down a Herero and Nama uprising in German South West Africa. About 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama were killed. Prisoners were held in a camp on Shark Island, off the coast.thenationalnews.com and 2 moreMap of Germany, marked on the globe2000 BCE · Lech valley, south of Augsburg, Bavaria, GermanyBronze Age farmsteads in Germany's Lech valley kept a rich core family and poor unrelated dependants side by side for 700 yearsIn 2019 Alissa Mittnik, Philipp Stockhammer, Johannes Krause and colleagues published genome-wide data from 104 people buried in cemeteries attached to farmsteads in southern Germany, from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age.Journal article (DOI) and 1 moreJakob Fugger: Portrait of Jakob Fugger, (1459-1525)1525 · AugsburgJakob Fugger paid for Charles V's election, and his heirs lost much of the fortune when the Spanish crown stopped payingJakob Fugger of Augsburg built a fortune in mining, trade and lending. In 1519 Charles of Habsburg needed money to buy the votes of the prince-electors. About 850,000 guilders went to the electors.Encyclopaedia Britannica and 7 moreHelmuth von Moltke the Elder: Portrait of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (by Carl Günther) - BNF Gallica (cropped)1891 · BerlinMoltke bought Kreisau with his 1866 war grant; his great-grandnephew was hanged in 1945 and the family lost the estateAfter the 1866 war the Prussian state gave Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke a cash grant. He bought Gut Kreisau in Silesia, about 500 hectares, on 1 August 1867.krzyzowa.pl and 4 moreOtto von Bismarck: Otto von Bismarck 1885 (cropped)1893 · Berlin, Germany; Munich, GermanyBismarck's banker Gerson von Bleichröder left a fortune to his sons; his son's painting went to Göring, and Bavaria returned it in 2017 and bought it back the same dayGerson Bleichröder was born in Berlin in 1822 and ran the private bank his father Samuel had founded. He became known as Bismarck's banker. In 1872 he was ennobled, as Gerson von Bleichröder.deutsche-biographie.de and 2 moreJohann Adam Weishaupt: Portrait of Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830)1804 · Munich, Germany; Gotha, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; Berlin, Bavaria banned the Illuminati in 1785 and published their seized papers, and a duke's will sent the rest to Sweden to keep them secretAdam Weishaupt founded the Order of the Illuminati at Ingolstadt on 1 May 1776.bitterwinter.org and 4 moreGasse in der Fuggerei, Augsburg: Narrow street in the Fuggerei, Augsburg.1525 · Augsburg, Bavaria, GermanyJakob Fugger fixed the Fuggerei's rent at one guilder a year in 1521, and the rent has not changed in 505 yearsJakob Fugger "the Rich" (1459-1525) began building in 1516. On 23 August 1521 he signed the deed founding the Fuggerei, to exist "in perpetuity." By 1521 there were 52 buildings.blogs.loc.gov and 2 moreNefertiti Bust Neues Museum Berlin: The iconic painted limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Crafted by the sculptor Thutmose c1340 BCE · Amarna, Egypt, and Berlin, GermanyThe Nefertiti bust left Egypt in 1913 listed as a plaster princess, and Berlin has kept it through a century of Egyptian demandsOn 6 December 1912 a German Oriental Society team led by Ludwig Borchardt found the painted bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten, in the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose at Amarna.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de and 2 moreHimmelsscheibe von Nebra - Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle - HD: Nebra Sky Disc - State Museum of Prehistory in Halle1600 BCE · Mittelberg near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyTreasure hunters sold the Nebra sky disc for 32,000 marks, and the museum director who posed as a buyer had the dealers arrested in a Basel hotelOn 4 July 1999 Henry W. and Mario R., searching with metal detectors on the Mittelberg hill, dug up a bronze disc with gold inlays, two swords, two axes, a chisel and bracelet fragments. Henry W.archive.archaeology.org and 2 moreJoseph Süß Oppenheimer1738 · gallows outside StuttgartWürttemberg hanged Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in a cage in 1738 and auctioned his property months before the verdictJoseph Süß Oppenheimer was born in Heidelberg in 1698. He became court factor and keeper of the privy purse to Prince Carl Alexander, who became Duke of Württemberg in December 1733.deutschlandmuseum.de and 5 moreMusterung-Welser-Armada: Gouverneur de:Georg Hohermuth von Speyer (rechts) und de:Philipp von Hutten (Mitte) anläßlich der Musterung der Welser-Armada in Sanlúcar de Barrameda vor 1546 · El Tocuyo, Venezuela, and Augsburg, GermanyCharles V gave the Welser bank Venezuela for its loans, and a Spanish governor had the head of the firm's son killed there in 1546Bartholomäus Welser (1484 to 1561) led the Augsburg trading house from 1518. The Welsers were among the largest creditors of Charles V.deutsche-biographie.de and 4 moreSchaedel mit Nagel: Schaedel, Vitaliebruder (?), Hanse1401 · Hamburg, GermanyHamburg beheaded the pirate Störtebeker, legend put his gold in a church spire, and a skull said to be his was stolen from the city museum in 2010Klaus Störtebeker is remembered as a leader of the Victual Brothers, who seized merchant ships in the Baltic and North Seas. A Hamburg fleet under Hermann Langhe and Nikolaus Schoke sailed for Heligoland in August 1400.historynewsnetwork.org and 2 moreKeltenmuseum Hochdorf 01: Celt's museum Hochdorf in Eberdingen, administrative district Ludwigsburg, Germany.530 BCE · Eberdingen-Hochdorf and Asperg-Grafenbühl, Ludwigsburg distrDNA showed the Celtic prince of Hochdorf was the uncle of the prince of Asperg, through his sister, and power passed down the mother's lineThe Hochdorf grave was excavated in 1978 and 1979 under Jörg Biel.europepmc.org and 3 more25 Wiki 20 EHM00042a+b 1-D Hildebrand Veckinchusen an seine Frau Margarethe 1421 by Olaf Malzahn: Foto: Olaf Malzahn1426 · Bruges, Belgium, and Lübeck, GermanyA Hanseatic merchant was jailed for debt in Bruges for years, died weeks after release, and his widow was sued out of her houseHildebrand Veckinchusen was born about 1365, probably in Dorpat, now Tartu, Estonia. He traded from Bruges and became a citizen of Lübeck around 1400.deutsche-biographie.de and 2 moreErfurter Schatz, jüdischer Hochzeitsring: Jüdischer Hochzeitsring aus dem sog. "Erfurter Schatz", aufbewahrt im Keller der Alten Synagoge in Erfurt1349 · Michaelisstraße 43, Erfurt, GermanyA Jewish moneylender's silver lay under his Erfurt cellar from the 1349 massacre until archaeologists found it in 1998Erfurt's medieval Jewish community was one of the most prominent of its time. On 21 March 1349, as the plague spread, a mob attacked the Jewish quarter on the false claim that Jews had poisoned the wells.juedisches-leben.erfurt.de and 3 moreKarlsschrein+Aachen+Wothly: city of Pamplona whose walls collapse814 · Aachen, GermanyCharlemagne's 811 division left two-thirds of his treasure to 21 archbishoprics and a silver table engraved with Constantinople to St Peter'sCharlemagne's biographer Einhard copied the document by which the emperor divided his treasure in 811, three years before his death. A full will was never finished. The treasure was split into three lots.sourcebooks.fordham.edu and 2 moreMap of Germany, marked on the globe2600 BCE · Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyAt Eulau a mother, father and two sons killed in a raid were buried facing each other, the oldest family proven by DNAIn 2005 archaeologists at Eulau found four graves, dug at the same time, holding 13 people: children from newborns to about 10 and adults of 30 or more. No teenagers or young adults were among them.bristol.ac.uk and 2 moreMap of Germany, marked on the globe6800 BCE · Kurpark, Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyThe infant buried with the shaman of Bad Dürrenberg was not her son but a descendant four or five generations down, added to her grave decades laterIn 1934 workers laying a pipe for a fountain in the spa gardens at Bad Dürrenberg struck a grave. Conservator Wilhelm Henning dug it out in a hurry so the gardens could reopen the next day; no photographs were taken.idw-online.de and 2 moreGerman: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,de:"Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort."label QS:Lde,"Hagen vers: German: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,dLegend · 1200 · Worms, Germany, and the court of Etzel (setting)The Nibelungenlied says Hagen sank a widow's bridal treasure in the Rhine, and she had her brother beheaded trying to learn whereThe Nibelungenlied is a Middle High German epic written down about 1200, probably at the court of Bishop Wolfger von Erla of Passau.Project Gutenberg and 3 more