Timeline_of_Leipzig

Timeline of Leipzig

Timeline of Leipzig

Timeline of notable events in the history of Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

The following is a timeline of the history of the German city of Leipzig.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 18th century

18th century

19th century

Battle of the Nations
Market Square in the 1890s

20th century

See also: History of Leipzig from 1933-1939
Polish armaments seized during the invasion of Poland on display at the 1939 Leipzig Trade Fair
  • 1938 - Expulsion of Polish Jews by Nazi Germany. 1,300 Polish Jews sheltered in the Polish Consulate and saved from deportation.[33]
  • 1939
  • 1941 - German-ordered closure of the American Consulate.[17]
  • 1943
  • 1944
    • Bombing.
    • 11 May: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 250 men, mostly Polish, Russian, Czech and Ukrainian, were held there.[36]
    • 9 June: HASAG Leipzig subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 5,000 women and children, mostly Polish, Soviet, French and Jewish, were held there.[37]
    • 22 August: Leipzig-Schönau subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established. Over 500 Jewish women were held there.[38]
    • 15 November: Subcamp of Buchenwald for men established at the HASAG factory. Around 700 men, mostly Jewish, French and Italian, were held there.[39]
    • 24 November: Leipzig-Engelsdorf subcamp dissolved. Prisoners deported to Wansleben am See and Rothenburg.[36]
Abtnaundorf massacre site a day later, 1945
Leipzig in 1971

21st century

See also

Other cities in the state of Saxony:

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