Visit to Bitburg
Reagan visits the Bitburg Nazi cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Khol
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1985 in Germany
Explore 24 historical events and records for Germany in 1985.
Historical records for Germany in 1985
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May
Bounty
Mengele becomes the worlds most sought-after fugitive with a bounty of $4 million
Exile of Josef Mengele
West Germany, Israel & the USA announce a combined effort to track down Josef Mengele. Mengele becomes the worlds most sought-after fugitive with a bounty of $4 million
June
Exhumation
Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
Exile of Josef Mengele
Mengeles body is exhumed from a grave in Sao Paolo
Treaty of Accession
Kohl represents West Germany in the member-state settlement admitting Spain and Portugal.
Schengen Agreement
Signs the Schengen Agreement for West Germany, committing the participating governments to gradually abolish internal border controls.
Treaty of Schengen
Genscher backs Germany's participation in the founding five-state agreement for gradually reducing checks at common borders. German policy links open internal borders with stronger external controls.
Treaty of Schengen
Leads West Germany when the five founding states sign the Schengen Agreement on the gradual removal of controls at their common borders.
Treaty of Schengen
In Germany, Zimmermann starts adapting border and policing arrangements to the commitments created at Schengen. Bonn also backs intensive police cooperation between participating states.
Treaty of Schengen
Engelhard helps review legal consequences of the agreement's programme for progressively freer cross-border movement. Germany supports freer travel alongside common security and visa rules.
Exile of Josef Mengele
Investigators believe they have discoverred Mengeles body
Milan European Council
Represents Germany as the Milan European Council considers institutional reform and completion of the internal market.
Intergovernmental Conference Decision
Supports the Milan decision to convene an intergovernmental conference on treaty reform and the internal market.
July
Death of Heinrich Theodor Boll
Death of Heinrich Boll
September
Men
Directs Manner, an international breakthrough for West German comedy.
December
Nobel Prize for Quantum Hall Effect
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the quantized Hall effect.
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Assassination of Ernst Zimmerman
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
Death of a Salesman
Directs the television film Death of a Salesman.
Death of Ernst Zimmerman
Death of Ernst Zimmerman, assassinated
Lattek Restores League Supremacy
Udo Lattek guides Bayern to the 1984-85 Bundesliga title after returning for a second spell as the club’s manager.
Operational Low-Energy Electron Microscope
Realizes a working low-energy electron microscope for real-time imaging of surface structure and processes.
Red Army
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
Red Army Faction
Assassinated by the Red Army Faction, an industrialist who made fighter jet engines
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