German Collection (page 5)

First Authenticated Christmas Tree - Strasbourg
Christmas Tree in History and Legend: The Earliest Authenticated Christmas Tree in Strasbourg (at this time in Germany). A merchant of Strasburg (a Mr Forbes)

Js Bach (Reutsch)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German musician Date: 1685 - 1750

Wiesbaden - Kochbrunen Hot Spring
Wiesbaden, Germany - Kochbrunen ( Cook Well ) Hot Spring. This building is the Pump Room. Date: 1913

German Seaman chatting up a Chinese girl
German Seaman (with his battleship visible in the rear of the shot) chatting up a Chinese girl

Battle of Leipzig
BATTLE OF LEIPZIG - a delightful popular print of the decisive battle which ended Napoleons attempt to subdue Germany and forced him to retire across the Rhine

Karl Marx / Cabinet Photo
KARL MARX - German political theorist (cabinet portrait dated 1880)

Martin Heidegger
MARTIN HEIDEGGER German philosopher who influenced Sartre and the Existentialists

Segantini Ufo
Remarkable painting by Italian artist Segantini, in the year of his death. The title Sein is German for essence or suchness

Schopenhauer / Postcard
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER German philosopher

Die Gralburg
Die Gralsburg - the castle of the Grail

HAWKER HURRICANE 1
Though lacking the glamour of the Spitfire, the plainer Hurricane is more widely used, downing more German aircraft than the rest of the defences combined

Wolfram Von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach, German epic poet, Bavarian by birth, author of Parzival, said to have inspired Wagners Parsifal

Tightrope Cycling Act
A German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act

Esperanto / Zamenhof
ESPERANTO Dr Ludwig L Zamenhof, German linguist, inventor of Esperanto which he hopes will become an international auxiliary language

Js Bach / Postcard
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer

WW1 / 1918 / AIR / DOG FIGHT
German and Allied aeroplanes in a dog-fight over the Western Front

Louis Spohr
LOUIS SPOHR German musician

Italian victory in Berlin Winter Olympics
An Italian victory in the ski team event in the Winter Olympics at Garmisch, Germany

German circus scrap -- dog jumping through a paper hoop. 19th century

German inventions for war in the air by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war in the air. Illustrating the methods and machines exploited and used by the Germans during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Berlin, Germany - Brandenburg Gate in the late evening light, casting the form into sharp silhuette relief against the last light of the day. Date: circa 1930s

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831). German idealist philosopher. Portrait of Hegel after a drawing by G. Hensel. Engraving

MARX, Karl (1818-1883). German philosopher, politician, economist and revolutionary. Portrait of Karl Marx. Engraving

MARX, Karl (1818-1883); ENGELS, Friedrich (1820-1895). German philosopher, politician, economist and revolutionary.; German socialist

GAUSS, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855). German mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Portrait of Carl Friederich Gauss. Engraving

Blitz in London -- bomb disposal at Charing Cross
Blitz in London -- soldiers using a trolley to remove a land mine on Hungerford Railway Bridge, Charing Cross, on 17 April 1941

Germany and Russia discuss the division of Poland, 1939
Russian Commander Borowenski bends over a map of Poland during discussions between German and Russian officers about the demarcation of the country following the invasion by Germany

German Rumpler-Taube plane, WW1
A German Rumpler-Taube two-seater plane during the First World War. A crew member can be seen in the gunners seat, holding a rifle. Date: 1917-1918

SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled, Scapa Flow, WW1
The German battleship SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled in Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Scotland after the end of the First World War. Date: 21 June 1919

Baron Manfred von Richthofen, German air ace, WW1
Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892-1918), also known as the Red Baron, legendary German fighter pilot during the First World War

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German army officer
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964), general in the Imperial German Army and commander of the German East Africa Campaign during the First World War

Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist activist in Germany
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Marxist activist in Germany. Date: early 20th century

Odin / Wotan Rides / Rackham
Odin/Wotan rides through the sky

Tsar Nicholas II with Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II on board the German imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, on 4 June 1909. Nicholas had sailed on a barge fromm Shtandart to the Hohenzollern, stayed half and hour

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, Soviet officer in the Red Army who played a decisive role during World War Two, including the capture of Berlin

Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey & allies
Sultan Mehmed V Reshad of Turkey (1844 - 1918), pictured with Kaiser Wilhelm II, the King of Bulgaria and Franz Joseph of Austro-Hungary; the four rulers of the Central Powers in World War I

Richthofen and members of the Jagdstaffel
Captain Baron von Richthofen, German flying ace, responsible for bringing down 80 Allied planes during World War One, pictured here with members of Jagdstaffel 5 around a Fokker plane after his 62nd

The crew of a German submarine - First World War
The hideous crew (!) of a German U-boat Submarine, poking their head out from the viewing platform, with the periscope in front. A very direct Allied propaganda postcard

Sentimental German wartime postcard
You, Only you alone are my true love - a sentimental wartime postcard sent from a German soldier to his girl back home in Munich

The charge of the 9th Lancers at a German battery near Mons

HMS Onslow at the Battle of the Barents Sea, Second World
Illustration showing the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Onslow attacking superior German forces during the Battle of the Barents Sea, December 1942

RAF Wellington bombers attacking a German airfield; Second
Illustration showing Royal Air Force Wellington bombers attacking the German airfield at Stavanger, Norway, during April 1940

Silesia Plebiscite
In Silesia, with a mixed German and Polish population, residents of Kattowitz/ Katowice await the results of the plebiscite which will divide the region

Soviet Heavy Tank in Berlin; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Soviet heavy tank moving through Berlin, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background, May 1945. Berlin fell to the Russian Army on 2nd May 1945

German Shepherd Horand
Hektor Linksrhein, known as Horand von Grafrath, founder of a notable German Shepherd strain

Nathan Soderblom / Nobel
TOMAS MASARYK Czech statesman and philosopher

Redcross War Dogs Rescue
Two Red Cross rescue dogs, a German Shepherd - at this date also named Police Dog - and a Belgian Shepherd Dog, find the body of a man killed on the battlefield

Germany / Dessau / Bauhaus
The Bauhaus building in Dessau, manufacturing city in eastern Germany. The building was built in 1925 - 26 by the German architect Walter Gropius

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