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Albrecht, Susanne
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0963
Otto I the Great
Killed by Otto I who stops Berengar marrying Adelaide & marries her himself
1208
Otto IV
21st June Bamberg Has Philp of Swabia assassinated, marks end of civil war
1208
Otto I von Wittlesbach
Bamberg Assassinates Philip of Swabia
1208
Philip
21st June Bamberg Assassinated by Otto of Wittelsbach, Philip had refused to marry his daughter Beatrix
1634
Deveraux, Walter
25th Feb Eger Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux
1634
Ferdinand II
25th Feb Eger Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux
1634
Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von
25th Feb Eger Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux
1874
Kullman, Heinz
Bad Kissingen A Catholic, Heinz Kullman, attempts to assassinate Bismarck at Bad Kissingen
1897
Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin
Qingdao The Germans capture Qingdao in retalliation for the murder of 2 German missionaries
1900
Kettler
20th June Beijing Murdered by a mob in response to the Allied Siege of the legations in Peking
1914
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von
28th June Sarajevo Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Bethmann Hollweg and Foreign Secretary Gottlieb von Jagow are instrumental in urging the Austrians to take a tough stand against Serbia
1918
Eisner, Kurt
Munich Assassinated, a communist revolt is suppressed & Bavaria joins the Weimar Republic
1918
Haase, Hugo
Berlin Assassinated while a member of the ruling Council of People's Representatives
1919
Arco-Valley, Graf Anton von
21st Feb Munich Assassinates the Prime Minister of the Bavarian Republic, Kurt Eisner
1919
Eglhofer, Rudolf
3rd May Munich Munich is "liberated" by the White Army & Eglhofer is assassinated by Feikorps troops
1919
Eisner, Kurt
21st Feb Munich Triggers off revolution leading to 5 coups & 5 Governments in 70 days
1919
Landauer, Gustav
3rd May Munich Munich is "liberated" by the White Army & Landauer is assassinated by Feikorps troops
1919
Liebknecht, Karl
15th Jan Berlin Murdered while under arrest
1919
Luxemburg, Rosa
15th Jan Berlin Murdered while under arrest
1920
Erzberger, Mathias
26th Aug Berlin Assassinated by rightist extremists, a symbol of "defeatism"
1920
Jogiches, Leo
Following the assassination of Leo Jogiches, Paul Levi becomes the KPD leader
1922
Rathenau, Walter
4th June Berlin After the assassination the President issues "the decree to protect the Republic"
4th June Berlin Caused by extremist reaction to the establishmment of the Weimar Republic
1934
Hitler, Adolf
25th July Vienna Nazis murder Dolfuss during a failed coup after he objects to anschluss with Germany
1934
Kahr, Gustav Ritter von
30th June Dachau Death of Gustav Ritter von Kahr
1934
Klausener, Erich
13th July Berlin Assassinated during the Night of the Long Knives
1938
Hitler, Adolf
9th Nov Paris The assassination of vom Rath in Paris is used to spark off "Kristallnacht"
1938
Rath, Ernst vom
9th Nov Paris Hershel Grynsxpan wants to assassinate the German Ambassador but shoots Ernst vom Rath
9th Nov Paris Roth's assassination as an excuse for Kristallnacht
1938
Rathenau, Ernst von
7th Nov Paris Secretary at the German legation in Paris, assassinated
7th Nov Paris Used to spark of further pogroms in Germany
1941
Heydrich, Reinhard
4th June Prague Assassinated by 3 Czech parachutists with British support in an open car
1942
Heydrich, Reinhard
4th June The Czech resistence assassinates Heydrich, "the protector of Bohemia"
1944
Korten, Gunther
20th July Killed while trying to assassinate Hitler
1944
Kutschera, Franz
1st Feb Warsaw Assassinated by Polish partisans
1944
Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen
14th Oct Rommel decides to poison himself
14th Oct The Gestapo give Rommel the choice of a trial or suicide disguised as a heart attack
1975
Hillegaart, Heinz
24th April Stockholm Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart
1975
Mirbach, Andreas von
24th April Stockholm Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart
1977
Albrecht, Susanne
28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei
1977
Buback, Siegfried
7th April Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback, claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando, in revenge for the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof
1977
Klar, Christian
28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei
1977
Meinhof, Ulrike
7th April Bonn Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback, claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando, in revenge for the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof
1977
Mohnhaupt, Brigitte
28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei
1977
Ponto, Jrgen
28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei
1977
Schleyer, Hanns-Martin
Cologne Hanns-Martin Schleyer, chairman of the German Employers' Organisation, is kidnapped and later shot
1985
Zimmerman, Ernst
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines

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