Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 9


 * 1794 - Birth of Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
 * 1886 - Death of poet Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
 * 1936 - Death of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
 * 1945 - Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp
 * 1945 - Georg Elser, who had attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, is executed at Dachau concentration camp