Hindenburg Line
The completion of a fortified German Defence line across North Eastern France. Named after the Field Marshal
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1916 in Germany — Page 3
Explore 109 historical events and records for Germany in 1916.
Historical records for Germany in 1916
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Hindenburg Program
The Hindenburg Program is the name given to a series of initiatives that attempted to reorganize Germany's war effort around the concept of total war. The High Command issues a program to direct the war economy. Makes war work compulsory for every male aged 17-60. Issues instructions for annexation, mobilization & the auxiliary service law
Homunculus
Directs Homunculus, a six-part science fiction serial.
Independent Social Democratic Party
Founds the Independent Social Democratic Party
Kriegsamt
Takes over control of the war economy from Ludendorf when the Kriegsamt is established
Major
Appointed Major
Major
Takes over control of the war economy from Ludendorf when the Kriegsamt is established
Minister of Interior
Appointed Minister of the Interior
Ninth Army
Appointed Commander of the Ninth Army for the Romanian Campaign
Ninth Army
Appointed Commander of the Ninth Army for the Romanian Campaign
Nonlinearity of Gravitational Field Established
Einstein's field equations made gravity nonlinear, so the gravitational field contributes to the dynamics instead of behaving as a simple superposition of independent Newtonian forces.
Peace
Ludendorff supports unrestricted submarine warfare and successfully puts pressure on Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismiss those in the armed forces that favour a negotiated peace settlement
Planck Spectrum Recovered from Transition Statistics
Einstein showed that his statistical rules for absorption, spontaneous emission and induced emission can reproduce Planck's black-body radiation law under thermal equilibrium.
Quartermaster General
Hindenburg appoints Ludendorff as his Quartermaster General
Quartermaster General
Hindenburg appoints Ludendorff as his Quartermaster General
Radiative Transitions Linked to Discrete Energy Differences
Einstein treated the frequency of absorbed or emitted radiation as fixed by the discrete energy difference between the participating atomic states.
Reichstag
Appointed Party Leader in the Reichstag
Schwarzschild Metric
Papers on relativity produced the first exact solutions to the Einstein field equations, and a minor modification of these results gives the well-known solution that now bears his name: the Schwarzschild metric
Schwarzschild Radius
The Schwarzschild solution, which makes use of Schwarzschild coordinates and the Schwarzschild metric, leads to the well-known Schwarzschild radius, which is the size of the event horizon of a non-rotating black hole
Spontaneous Emission Probability Defined
Einstein introduced a coefficient describing the probability that an excited atom will emit radiation spontaneously and fall to a lower energy state.
Stimulated Emission Probability Coefficient Defined
Einstein introduced a second radiation-dependent transition probability in which incident radiation stimulates an excited atom to emit additional radiation.
Stress-Energy Identified as Source of Curvature
General relativity connected spacetime curvature with the energy, momentum and stresses of matter, making the physical contents of the universe sources of the gravitational geometry.
Submarine Warfare
Ludendorff supports unrestricted submarine warfare and successfully puts pressure on Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismiss those in the armed forces that favour a negotiated peace settlement
Third Supreme Command
Ludendorff and Hindenburg become the leaders of the military-industrial dictatorship 3rd Supreme Command
Third Supreme Command
Ludendorff and Hindenburg become the leaders of the military-industrial dictatorship 3rd Supreme Command
Verdun Staff Service
Manstein served in staff appointments associated with German operations around Verdun. This assignment gave him experience of the logistical and operational difficulties of a prolonged offensive.
Weak-Field Gravitational Waves Derived
Einstein linearised the gravitational field equations in the weak-field limit and identified wave-like disturbances capable of propagating through spacetime.
Ypres Salient
Armin commands German forces opposite Ypres.
Ypres Salient
German forces continue holding high ground near Ypres.
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