September 3

© 1997, 1998 by Paul A. Schons

September 3, 1757

Birth of Karl August, Archduke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He made an intellectual center of Weimar through his invitation and patronage of Goethe, Herder, Schelling, Hegel and Schiller.

September 3, 1846

Birth of Alfred Brandt in Hamburg, Germany. Brandt was a lead engineer in the building of the Simplon Tunnel. It is the longest tunnel in Switzerland and for many years was the longest in the world.

September 3, 1860

Death of Martin Rathke in Königsberg, Prussia (now in Russia). Rathke was the anatomist who first identified the gill structures in the embryos of mammals. He concluded that they were the vestiges of gills at earlier stages of evolution. He also identified the embryonic structure from which the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland develops.

September 3, 1869

Birth of Fritz Pregl in Laibach, Austria. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1923 for developing the system of microanalysis of organic compounds.

September 3, 1875

Birth of Ferdinand Porsche in Maffersdorf, Austria. Porsche worked for the Daimler Automobile Company in Stuttgart from 1923 to 1931 and then left to form his own company. He specialized in sports cars and racing cars. At the request of Hitler he designed a peoples' car, Volkswagen in 1934. The Porsche sports car was introduced in 1950.

September 3, 1939

England and France declare war on Germany.

September 3, 1943

Allied forces invade Italy.

September 3, 1971

Signing of the Four Power Agreement on Berlin.

September 3, 2005

Germany offers to share oil reserves with the United States to assist in the oil shortage after hurricane Katrina:

Die Bundesregierung ist allerdings bereit, einen Teil der nationalen Ölreserve freizugeben, um den Vereinigten Staaten nach dem Hurrikan „Katrina” zu helfen.
Es sei für Deutschland selbstverständlich, den diesbezüglichen Antrag zu unterstützen, den die USA bei der Internationalen Energie-Agentur (IEA) in Paris gestellt hätten, sagte Schröder am Freitag in Berlin. Diese Entscheidung sei international abgestimmt.
---Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung