Image icons of federal German history

09.11.1967 - Students hold up a banner saying "Under the talars, the mustiness is kept for thousands of years" during the entrance of the new and the old dean of the University of Hamburg. The...
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14.03.1960 - Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion (l) and German chancellor Konrad Adenauer are in a good mood at their meeting in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
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20.02.1990 - German chancellor Helmut Kohl waves to a flag waving crowd in Erfurt on 20 February 1980.
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18.10.1977 - Co-pilot Jürgen Vietor and the injured stewardess Gabi Dillmann leave the Lufthansa aircraft "Cologne" first on the 18th of October in 1977 in Frankfurt am Main. The Lufthansa airc...
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14.04.1968 - Easter marchers with a cross stand in the water jet of a water gun during the Easter March on the 14th of April in 1968.
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30.09.1977 - Kidnapped president of the employer's association Hanns Martin Schleyer below the logo of the RAF (Red Army Faction) Commando Siegfried Hausner and martyr Halimeh (picture from Oct...
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13.01.1993 - Beschäftigte der Metallindustrie demonstrieren in Kaarst (Nordrhein-Westfalen) mit roten Fahnen, die das Symbol für die 35-Stunden Woche zeigen, für die Verkürzung der Wochenarbeit...
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30.06.1985 - Der deutsche Tennisspieler Boris Becker hechtet während des Turniers in Wimbledon im Juli 1985 hinter einem Ball her. Als jüngster Spieler und erster Deutscher überhaupt gewann der...
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13.12.1981 - SED chairman Erich Honecker (R) gives Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (L) a candy from the Christmas market afteir his visit in the GDR, on 13 December 1981, at Güstrow train station. Ge...
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25.10.1977 - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (l) pays his condolences to Hanns Martin Schleyer's widow, Waltrude Schleyer (r). A funeral service took place on 25 October 1977 for the president of th...
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29.05.1993 - Die Ruinen des Hauses in der Solinger Innenstadt, in dem bei einem Brandanschlag am 29.5.1993 fünf türkische Frauen und Kinder getötet sowie zwei weitere lebensgefährlich verletzt...
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25.08.1967 - Vice chancellor Willy Brandt starts the colour television by pushing a button at the 25th German Radio Exhibition on the 25th of August in 1967.
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03.06.1998 - Hunderte von Helfern versuchen am 3.6.1998 im Wrack des verunglückten ICE 884 bei Eschede in der Nähe von Celle, Opfer des Zugunglücks zu bergen. Der Intercity-Express "Wilhelm Con...
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27.09.1998 - Mit doppeltem Victory-Zeichen stellt sich SPD-Kanzlerkandidat Gerhard Schröder in der Bonner Parteizentrale am 27.9.1998 seinen Anhängern. Mit einem deutlichen Abstand von rund 41...
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17.02.1962 - Inhabitants of Wilhelmsburg are rescued from their flooded houses in rubber boats. In the night from the 16th to the 17th of February in 1962, 315 people died in the storm flood ca...
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07.05.1978 - German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and sowjet leader Leonid Brezhnjev on 07 May 1978 in Hamburg during a farewell ceremony shortly before Brezhnjev's return to the Soviet Union. Due...
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03.11.1981 - Ein Demonstrant steht mit freiem Oberkörper und den Tränen nahe zwischen Polizisten, die das von den StartbahnWest-Gegnern aufgebaute Hüttendorf auf dem Baugelände der umstrittenen...
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05.07.1967 - The federal cabinet has its afternoon meeting in the garden of Palais Schaumburg on the 5th of July in 1967 due to the summer weather.
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05.08.1955 - The one millionth VW Käfer is presented in Wolfsburg on the 5th of August in 1955.
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04.07.1954 - German soccer player Fritz Walter, (C, holding the cup in his hands) and Horst Eckel (r) are being carried on the shoulders of their fans after the German team won the final match...
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20.01.2004 - The company spokesman of the Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann (right), cracks a joke with the former Mannesmann manager Esser before the beginning of the legal Mannesmann process in...
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07.12.1970 - Historical scene: Chancellor Willy Brandt knees down in front of the monument, which is dedicated to the heroes of the uprising in April 1943, in the former Jewish ghetto of Warsaw...
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20.04.2005 - A nuns reads in a newspaper about the new German pope at a subway station in Cologne, Germany on 20 April 2005. German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to become the 265th pop...
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07.07.1974 - Team captain Franz Beckenbauer holds up the fifa world trophy on 07 July 1974 in Munich.
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07.06.2007 - Familienfoto: (l-r) Ministerpräsident Shinzo Abe (Japan), Ministerpräsident Stephen Harper (Kanada), Präsident Nicolas Sarkozy (Frankreich), Präsident Wladimir Putin (Russland), Bu...
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22.10.1983 - ARCHIVE - The aerial photo shows a human chain on the B10 between Plochingen and Ulm (archive photo from October 22, 1983). When peace demonstrators lined up like on a string of pe...
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01.11.1963 - Die Rettungsaktion "Barbecke" ist beendet, drei eingeschlossene Bergleute werden am 1. November 1963 aus 82 Metern Tiefe gerettet, hier steigt der erste gluecklich eine Treppe heru...
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29.05.2010 - Lena Meyer-Landrut representing Germany ist the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, May 29, 2010. Photo: Jörg Carstensen dpa
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30.09.2010 - Zwei Männer stützen am Donnerstag (30.09.2010) im Schlossgarten in Stuttgart einen verletzten Mann. Mehrere tausend Demonstranten haben sich am Stuttgarter Schlossgarten versammelt...
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13.07.2014 - dpatopbilder Philipp Lahm (C) of Germany lifts up the World Cup trophy between his teammates Lukas Podolski (L), Thomas Mueller (R), Mario Goetze (top L) and Mesut Oezil (top R) af...
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06.10.1989 - ARCHIV - Der sowjetische Staats- und Parteichef Michail Gorbatschow (l) wird nach seiner Ankunft zu den Feierlichkeiten zum 40jährigen Staatsjubiläum der DDR am 6. Oktober 1989 in...
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10.09.2015 - dpatopbilder Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) lässt sich am 10.09.2015 nach dem Besuch einer Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung für Asylbewerber der Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) und der Außenst...
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27.02.1955 - Federal President Theodor Heuss (r) lighting a cigarette for Empress Soraya during a reception in compliment to the Persian Shah on 27th February 1955 in Bonn.
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24.11.1988 - Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker used the snow in the bathing resort Varna at the Black Sea in Bulgaria on 24th November 1988, the last day of his four-day state visit, to...
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10.09.1964 - Armando Rodrigues from the small village of Vale de Madeiros in Portugal sits proudly on a moped presented to him at his arrival at the train station in Cologne-Deutz on 10 Septemb...
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26.06.1963 - " Ich bin ein Berliner" - US president John F. Kennedy on 26 June 1963 in Berlin speaking in front of the city hall Schoeneberg.
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31.07.1994 - Der Wagen des niederländischen Benetton-Ford-Piloten Jos Verstappen steht sofort in Flammen, als am 31.7.1994 bei einem Boxenstop während des Großen Preises von Deutschland auf dem...
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10.05.1991 - Das Eiweiß tropft Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl von der Brille, während er versucht, den Eierwerfer in der ihm ansonsten zujubelnden Menge ausfindig zu machen. Am 10. Mai 1991 wurde de...
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02.12.1973 - View of the empty Duisburg-Kaiserberg interchange. Due to the oil crisis, a Sunday driving ban was imposed for the second time on December 2, 1973. [dpabilderarchiv]
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08.06.1952 - Boxer Peter Müller (l) from Cologne, called "de Aap" (=the ape), looks down at referee Max Pippow (r), whom he had just knocked out on the 8th of June in 1952 in Cologne during the...
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18.08.1988 - Kidnapper Dieter Degowski threatens hostage Silke Bischoff with a weapon on the 17th of August in 1988. Dieter Degowski and his accomplice Hans-Jürgen Rösner had robbed a bank in G...
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21.06.1988 - Mit Gasmasken ausgerüstet blicken DDR-Grenzsoldaten am 21. Juni 1988 über die Mauer am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Nach Steinwürfen von West-Berliner Besetzern des Lenne-Dreiecks au...
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13.05.1999 - Foreign minister Joschka Fischer is hit by a paint bomb at the special party congress of the Green party on the 13th of May in 1999.
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23.05.1949 - The Basic Law of the Federal Republic lies underneath the black-red-golden flag on a table in the meeting hall of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn on 23 May 1949. In the front row...
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24.06.1990 - Dutch player Frank Rijkaard (r) spits at German national player Rudi Völler during the match in the round of 16 between Germany and the Netherlands on the 24th of June in 1990.
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11.11.1989 - A trabi column crosses border crossing point Herleshausen on the 11th of November in 1989. The GDR had opened its borders on the 9th of November in 1989.
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09.09.1987 - General secretary of the SED Erich Honecker (m) receives a guitar from rock musician Udo Lindenberg as a present during the first visit of a head of state of the GDR in the FRG in...
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03.10.1990 - Young sportsmen and women hoist the German flag in front the Reichstag building during the unification celebrations in Berlin, at midnight, October 3rd 1990.
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01.10.1982 - Helmut Kohl (r) receives the certificate of appointment from German president Karl Carstens (l) on 01 October 1982.
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16.08.1958 - Bundeskanzler Dr. Konrad Adenauer spielt am 16. August 1958 mit seiner Tochter Lotte während eines Urlaubs in Griante (Italien) Boccia.
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30.10.1962 - On 30 October 1962, a group of students demonstrated against the arrest of "Spiegel" editors in front of the Frankfurt Hauptwache with a sit-down strike. The article "Conditionally...
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21.06.1997 - Fun-loving sister Teresa on her skateboard during the 27. Evangelic Church Day in Leipzig on June 21, 1997.
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17.02.2012 - Die Bildkombo zeigt Bundespräsident Christian Wulff und dessen Ehefrau Bettina, die am Freitag (17.02.2011) im Schloss Bellevue in Berlin durch eine Tür kommen bzw. aus dem Saal ge...
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