Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 24


 * 1617 – The Fruitbearing Society is founded in Weimar by German scholars and nobility
 * 1759 – Death of poet Ewald Christian von Kleist
 * 1888 – Death of physicist Rudolf Clausius, who introduced the concept of entropy
 * 1979 – Death of test pilot Hanna Reitsch