May 30

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May 30, 1527

The University of Marburg is founded.

May 30, 1849

The last meeting of the German parliament in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt. Under pressure from Prussia and Austria, the parliament moves to Stuttgart, where a number of the delegates feel there will be greater security. (The Stuttgart parliament will be dissolved on June 18, 849.)

May 30, 1872

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf publishes a very negative pamphlet on Friedrich Nietzsche's Geburt der Tragödie.

May 30, 1916

In WWI the Battle of Jutland takes place, the largest naval battle in WWI between the German and British fleets. The British use 74 ships and the Germans 54. There are ca. 10,000 human casualties and 25 ships are lost. The battle is tactically a draw.

May 30, 1925

Death of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck in Berlin, Germany. It was Moeller's book of 1923 Das Dritte Reich which provided a nickname for Hitler's Germany.

May 30, 1932

Heinrich Brüning resigns as chancellor of the Weimar Republic. He will be replaced by Center Party politician Franz von Papen.

May 30, 1940

Death of Bl. Otto Neururer (1882 - 1940). Otto Neururer was born in Piller, Austria in 1882. He became a priest and religion teacher. He was a Parish priest in Gotzens, Austria (near Innsbruck) when the Nazis came to power. He advised a young woman of his parish not to marry a divorced man. That man, however, turned out to be a well connected Nazi. Fr. Neururer was arrested for "slander against German marriage" in imprisoned in Dachau and later Buchenwald where he ministered to fellow prisoners. After he baptized a fellow prisoner in 1940 he was tortured to his death for doing so. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

May 30, 1952

Death of Albert Lasker in New York. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Lasker came to the U. S. and founded the modern concept of advertising. He changed the concept of the role of advertising from informing to active selling.

May 30, 1951

Death of Hermann Broch in New Haven, Conn., U. S. A. Broch was a novelist known for his "multidimensional novels". Among his works are Die Schlafwandler, Der Versucher (1953) and Die Schuldlosen (1950). In 1940 he immigrated to the United States.

May 30, 1968

Death of Martin Noth in Hovot Shivta, Israel. A biblical scholar, Noth was an expert in the early history of the Jews. Noth was a professor of theology at the University of Bonn from 1945-1965.

May 30, 1992

Death of Karl Carstens in Meckenheim, Germany. Carstens served as the President of the German Parliament from 1976 - 1979 and as President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1979 - 1984.