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Germacrene D
Germacrene D is a volatile sesquiterpene hydrocarbon, C₁₅H₂₄, with a ten-membered ring, found widely in plant essential oils and serving as a precursor to many other sesquiterpenes.
Germain Pilon
Germain Pilon was a French Renaissance sculptor, active in Paris from about 1558 to 1590, best known for the tomb of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis at Saint-Denis.
Germaine de Randamie
Germaine de Randamie, "The Iron Lady" (born 1984, Utrecht), Dutch MMA fighter and undefeated kickboxer (46-0, 30 KOs); first UFC women's featherweight champion (beat Holm, UFC 208, 2017), twice beaten by Amanda Nunes, UFC record 10-5.
Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël (Madame de Staël; Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, 1766-1817) was a Franco-Swiss writer and liberal political thinker, daughter of Jacques Necker, author of De l'Allemagne, Delphine, Corinne, and Considerations on the French Revolution, exiled by Napoleon to Coppet.
Germaine Delapierre
Germaine Delapierre (1897-1939), French hurdler and footballer, Femina Sport co-founder (1912), French 80 m hurdles champion 1919-1921, gold medalist at the 1921 Women's Olympiad in Monte Carlo.
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 1939) is an Australian feminist writer and academic, author of the 1970 bestseller The Female Eunuch, known for her celebrity feminism, later works like The Whole Woman, and controversy over her statements that transgender women are not women.
Germaine Krull
Germaine Krull (1897–1985) was a German-born photographer and writer, a major figure of the interwar European avant-garde best known for her 1928 industrial portfolio Métal.
Germaine Lindsay
Germaine (Jermaine) Lindsay, born Jamaica 1985, was the Jamaican-born British Muslim convert who bombed the Piccadilly line train near King's Cross on 7 July 2005, killing 27 including himself; husband of Samantha Lewthwaite, based in Aylesbury.
Germaine Richier
Germaine Richier (1902–1959) was a French sculptor, trained in the bronze tradition of Rodin and Bourdelle, known for hybrid human, animal, and plant figures after World War II.
Germame Neway
Germame Neway, also spelled Garmame Neway, was an Ethiopian civil servant and governor who with his brother Mengistu planned the failed 1960 coup against Haile Selassie.
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, or Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, was East Germany's academy of sciences, reconstituted in 1946 and dissolved in 1991.
German Aerospace Center
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) is Germany's national research and technology center for aeronautics, space, energy, transport, security, and defense, headquartered in Cologne.
German Air Force
The German Air Force (Luftwaffe), the Bundeswehr's air branch founded in 1956, fields almost 28,000 soldiers, six tactical squadrons of Eurofighter and Tornado aircraft, and leads NATO air policing and airspace defense missions.
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
Graf Zeppelin, designated Flugzeugträger A, was a German aircraft carrier launched in 1938 but never commissioned; scuttled in 1945, it was sunk as a Soviet target in 1947.
German alphabet
German alphabet (Deutsches Alphabet): 26 Latin letters plus the umlaut letters ä, ö, ü and the Eszett ß, totaling 30 characters. Covers ß rules, sorting, the Buchstabiertafel, Kurrent script, and the 2024 official rulebook.
German American Bund
German American Bund (1936–1941), Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, pro-Nazi US organization of German-descended citizens led by Fritz Kuhn; held the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally, ran Nazi youth camps, disbanded after Pearl Harbor.
German Americans
German Americans, Americans of German ancestry, form the largest US ancestry group: about 41 million in 2022, over 12 percent. Key facts include 1683 Germantown founding, peak 1850s migration, WWI anti-German persecution, and rapid assimilation.
German annexation of Nauru
The German annexation of Nauru was the incorporation of the Pacific island into the German Empire in 1888, under the Marshall Islands protectorate and later German New Guinea, until Australian occupation in 1914.
Germán Arciniegas
Germán Arciniegas (1900–1999) was a Colombian writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister of Education from 1942 to 1946 and wrote historical essays on Latin America.
German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency
The German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency (Abzeichen für Leistungen im Truppendienst) is a Bundeswehr decoration earned by passing fitness, marksmanship, swimming, and ruck march tests.
German Army
German Army (Deutsches Heer): land-force branch of the Bundeswehr, founded with it on 12 November 1955; NATO-integrated, the Bundeswehr's largest service with over 100 agencies; absorbed East German NVA units in 1990 and, since the 2022 Zeitenwende, is expanding with a Lithuania brigade deployment.
German Army (1935–1945)
The German Army (Heer) was the land branch of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, created in 1935 when conscription returned, peaking near 6.9 million men in 1944, and deeply implicated in Nazi crimes on the Eastern Front.
German Autonomous Driving Act
The German Autonomous Driving Act (Gesetz zum autonomen Fahren) is a 2021 federal law permitting driverless Level 4 vehicles in regular public road transport across Germany.
German Autumn
The German Autumn (Deutscher Herbst) was the 1977 crisis in West Germany when the Red Army Faction kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer and Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa airliner.
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2, Schiff 16, Raider-C), ex-cargo ship Goldenfels commanded by Bernhard Rogge; sank or captured 22 ships of 145,697 tons in 622 days before being sunk by HMS Devonshire in 1941.
German Bar Association
German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein, DAV): voluntary professional body of about 60,000 German lawyers in 253 local bar associations, founded 1871, seated in Berlin; distinct from the mandatory German Federal Bar (BRAK).
German battleship Bismarck
The German battleship Bismarck was a Kriegsmarine battleship that sank HMS Hood at the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941, then was sunk by the Royal Navy on 27 May.
German battleship Gneisenau
The German battleship Gneisenau was a Scharnhorst-class Kriegsmarine capital ship, commissioned in 1938, that sank HMS Glorious in 1940 and operated with her sister Scharnhorst.
German battleship Scharnhorst
Scharnhorst was a German battleship, lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1939 and sunk at the Battle of North Cape with only 36 survivors of 1,968 aboard.
German battleship Tirpitz
Tirpitz, German Bismarck-class battleship (Schlachtschiff), largest warship built in Germany; based in Norwegian fjords 1942-1944 as a fleet in being, midget-submarine damaged 1943, sunk by Tallboy bombs off Tromsø 12 November 1944.