Battle of Ypres, 2nd
Spearheads the 2nd major German offensive around Ypres. Albrecht's Army uses the first chlorine gas attacks against the British and French
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1915 in Germany — Page 3
Explore 106 historical events and records for Germany in 1915.
Historical records for Germany in 1915
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Captain
Appointed Captain in the General Staff
Field Marshal
Appointed Field Marshal
Field Marshal
Appointed Field Marshal
Freiburg Habilitation
Heidegger completes his habilitation and begins teaching at Freiburg.
Gallipoli Defence System Reorganised
Liman von Sanders redistributes Ottoman formations and prepares mobile reserves against expected Allied landings.
General
Appointed Head of the Navy General Staff. Appointed General
General
Appointed Head of the Navy General Staff
Hesperien
Publication of "Hesperien"
Invasion of Serbia
Leads the Eleventh Army in the Autumn invasion of Serbia
Iron Cross
Awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class
Iron Cross
Awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class
Lieutenant
Appointed Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Appointed Lieutenant
Military Attache
Appointed Military Attache to the USA
Military Attache
Appointed Military Attache to the USA
Minister of Finance
Appointed Minister of Finance
Mobilization
Claims submarine warfare can end the war in 6 months, forced to resign in Aug 1918
President of Germany
Appointed President of the Allgemeine-Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft
Purge
Expelled from the USA as "persona non grata"
Quartermaster General
Appointed Quartermaster General, 1st term
Quartermaster General
Appointed Quartermaster General, 1st term
Reichsgetreidestelle
Appointed leader of the Reichsgetreidestelle, an office in which he was responsible for the administration of Prussian corn and wheat in the World War I
Return to General Covariance
Einstein abandoned key restrictions of the Entwurf approach and returned to generally covariant tensor equations, beginning the final rapid reconstruction of his gravitational theory.
Siege of Novogievsk
Leads the Siege of Novogeorgievsk
Triple Offensive
The Army Group Gallwitz joins in the Triple Offensive in central Poland
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