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Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), who died 60 years ago, recognized the antibacterial effect of sulfonamides in the early 1930s, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1939. This year, the pathologist is being honored at his places of work in Münster and Wuppertal and a biography written by medical historian Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hofer is now being published by NDB-online.
February 23/24, 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of writer Uwe Johnson (1934–1984); Johnson would have turned 90 on July 20 of this year. Johnson is regarded as a literary chronicler of 20th century German history. His novels "Mutmassungen über Jakob" and "Jahrestage" are part of the canon of modern literature.
June 20, 2024 is the 100th birthday of Rainer Barzel (1924–2006), influential CDU federal politician in the 1960s, 1964-1973 Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and 1971-1973 Federal Chairman of the CDU. He failed as a candidate for Chancellor in 1972 and was President of the Bundestag in 1983/84.
Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), one of the most important representatives of the German women’s movement during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, died 70 years ago. After the First World War, Bäumer also left her mark on German liberalism as deputy chairwoman of the German Democratic Party.
The Jewish engineer Arthur Schönberg (1874–1943) was the most important collaborator of Oskar von Miller (1855–1934), with whom he planned the Walchensee power plant, designed a Germany-wide electricity supply and assisted in the founding and implementation of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Harassed early on by the National Socialists, he died in the Theresienstadt ghetto.