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| 0833 | Louis I the Pious |  |
| Paris Deserted by his army & imprisoned by his eldest son Lothar who acts as sole ruler |
| 1062 | Otto von Nordheim |  |
| Takes part in the kidnapping of Henry |
| 1105 | Henry IV |  |
| Arrested by his younger son Henry but escapes |
| 1192 | Henry VI |  |
| Captures Richard I on his return from the Crusades , a large ransom is demanded |
| 1394 | Jobst of Moravia |  |
| Wenceslas is captured & imprisoned by Jobst of Moravia, his cousin |
| 1394 | Wenceslas |  |
| Wenceslas is captured & imprisoned by Jobst of Moravia, his cousin |
| 1521 | Luther, Martin |  |
| Captured for his own safety by Duke Frederick of Saxony |
| 1638 | Rupert of the Rhine |  |
| 10th Oct Vloto Captured by the Imperial forces during Charles Louis ' invasion of the Palatinate |
| 10th Oct Linz Imprisoned at Linz Castle, 1638-1641 |
| 1641 | Rupert of the Rhine |  |
| Dec Linz Released by Emperor Ferdinand III at the instigation of Archduke Leopold William |
| 1719 | Gortz, Georg Heinrich von |  |
| Arrested by Frederick I after the death of Charles XII |
| 1730 | Frederick II the Great |  |
| Kustrin Placed under suspended sentence of death by his father, Frederick William I of Prussia |
| 5th Aug Kustrin Fails to escape from the captivity of his father, Frederick William I of Prussia |
| 1848 | Marx, Karl Heinrich |  |
| Cologne Arrested on charges of inciting armed rebellion, acquitted |
| 1874 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von |  |
| 4th Oct Count Arnim is arrested after the discovery of a plot to replace Bismarck by him |
| 1918 | Mackensen, August von |  |
| Nov Neusatz Imprisoned by the French after the Armistice until December 1919 |
| 1919 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 27th April Red Guards attempt to arrest Hitler |
| 1919 | Mackensen, August von |  |
| Dec Neusatz Released by the French after the Armistice |
| 1921 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 14th Sep Hitler and SA disrupt speech by Otto Ballestedt of the Bayernbund; beaten badly; Hitler with others arrested |
| 1922 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| Stadelheim Released following reaction in Bavaria to 5 the Law for the Protection of the Republic |
| 12th Jan Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months |
| 4th June Stadelheim Says "2,000 yrs ago the mob of Jerusalem dragged a man to execution in just this way" |
| 1923 | Goering, Herman |  |
| Arrested for part played in the Beer Hall Putsch |
| 1923 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| Berlin Arrested for part played in the Beer Hall Putsch |
| 1923 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 1st April Landsberg Imprisoned for 5 yrs in Landsberg fortress |
| 27th July Hitler is released |
| 11th Nov Uffing Arrested in Austria for part played in the Beer Hall Putsch |
| 11th Nov Landsberg Held in Landsberg fortress |
| 1923 | Jager, Heinz |  |
| Berlin Arrested for refusing to sell his farm near the Berghof for Hitler's mountain lair |
| 1923 | Ludendorf, Erich von |  |
| Berlin Arrested for his part in the Munich Beer Hall putsch |
| 1924 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| Landsberg Gives himself up for part played in the Munich Beer Hall putsch |
| Landsberg Imprisoned for 6 months alongside Hitler in Landsberg Prison |
| 1924 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 20th Dec Landsberg Released from Landsberg prison after serving 9 months of a 5 yr sentence |
| 1927 | Niemoller, Frederich Gustav Emil Martin |  |
| Dec The leader of the Protestant opposition to the German Chris tians is arrested |
| 1933 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| 30th June Munich Rounds up SA leaders in Munich & arrests them |
| 1933 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 2nd May Berlin Trades Union leaders are put in concentration camps |
| 1933 | Schumacher, Kurt |  |
| Dachau Arrested & sent to Dachau |
| 1933 | Th„lmann, Ernst |  |
| The Enabling Act, legally gives Hitler dictatorial control of Germany, passed by a Reichstag session held after the Communist deputies had been arrested and jailed |
| The KPD is suppressed by the Nazis, thousands of Communists are imprisoned in concentration camps, including Th„lmann |
| 1934 | Adenauer, Konrad |  |
| Arrested by the Gestapo |
| 1934 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 30th June Bad Wiesse Confronts Rohm, accuses hime of organizing a rebellion & has him arrested |
| 30th June Bad Wiesee Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested |
| 30th June Orders the arrest & execution of all rivals to him within the Nazi Party |
| July Berlin More than 150 SA leaders are arrested & executed |
| 1934 | Rohm, Ernst |  |
| 30th June Bad Wiesse Arrested alongside othe SA leader & held in a prison cell in Munich |
| 1937 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| Dec Over 800 Protestant pastors are arrested |
| Dec The leader of the Protestant opposition to the German Chris tians is arrested |
| 1937 | Niemoller, Frederich Gustav Emil Martin |  |
| Leader of the Protestant opposition, arrested for opposition to the Nazi regime |
| 1938 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 9th Nov Berlin 26,000 male Jews arrested |
| 1938 | Muller, Heinrich |  |
| Nov Berlin Orders the Gestapo to target wealthier Jews, more than 20,000 are taken into custody |
| 1939 | Elser, Georg |  |
| Nov Dachau Arrested for trying to blow up Hitler, imprisoned in Dachau |
| 1941 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| 10th May Arrested by the British & held as a POW |
| 1943 | Bonhoeffer, Dietrich |  |
| Arrest of Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 1943 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 12th Sep A German commando unit led by Colonel Skorzeny captures Mussolini from the Italians |
| 1943 | Niemoller, Martin |  |
| Arrest of Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 1943 | Schumacher, Kurt |  |
| Released from Dachau |
| 1943 | Skorzeny, Otto |  |
| 12th Sep A German commando unit led by Colonel Skorzeny captures Mussolini from the Italians |
| 1944 | Adenauer, Konrad |  |
| Cologne Arrested because of his opposition to Hitler |
| 1944 | Braun, Werner von |  |
| Mar Arrested by Himmler on trumped up charges |
| Mar Werner von Braun is soon released following the intervention of Albert Speer |
| 1944 | Fromm, Friedrich |  |
| July Orders the arrest & court-martial of von Stauffenberg to cover his own involvement |
| 21st July Arrested by order of Heinrich Himmler |
| 1944 | Goering, Herman |  |
| Surrenders to the USAforces |
| 1944 | Schumacher, Kurt |  |
| Arrested after the July plot to kill Hitler |
| 1944 | Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert |  |
| Mar Werner von Braun is soon released following the intervention of Albert Speer |
| 1945 | Brauchitsch, Walter von |  |
| Brauchitsch is arrested by the Americans but later dies while awaiting trial |
| 1945 | Braun, Werner von |  |
| Surrenders to the Americans & allowed to continue his research in the USA |
| 1945 | Guderian, Heinz |  |
| Arrested but released after not being charged with any war crimes |
| 1945 | Himmler, Heinrich |  |
| 25th May Arrested by British troops |
| 1945 | Jodl, Alfred |  |
| 22nd May Rheims Jodl & Donitz are arrested by the Allies |
| 1945 | Kleist, Paul Ludwig Ewald von |  |
| Kleist is captured by United States forces, he ie was sent to communist Yugoslavia to face alleged war crimes charges in 1946 |
| 1945 | Krosigk |  |
| Imprisoned for 10 years for war crimes |
| 1945 | Manstein, Fritz Erich von |  |
| Arrrested by the British & held until 1953 |
| 1945 | Nehring, Walter Kurt Josef |  |
| Imprisoned for 2 years |
| 1945 | Papen, Franz von |  |
| April Ruhr Arrested in the Ruhr by the Allies |
| 1945 | Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar |  |
| 7th May Obbacio Rescued from a POW camp at Prager Wildsee by the British 5th Army |
| 1945 | Schoerner, Ferdinand |  |
| Imprisoned by the Russians for 10 years for war crimes |
| 1946 | Doenitz, Karl |  |
| Nuremberg Germa Sentenced to 10 yrs imprisonment, released 30 September 1956 |
| 1946 | Hoess, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand |  |
| Arrested by Allied military police, under the name of Franz Lang |
| 1946 | Mengele, Josef |  |
| Arrested by the Allies but mistakenly released |
| 1948 | List, Siegmund Wilhelm von |  |
| Imprisoned for war crimes in the Balkans during Word War II |
| 1950 | Fuchs, Klaus |  |
| Arrested for passing information to the USSR |
| 1st Mar Sentenced to serve 7 yrs in prison |
| 1952 | Kesselring, Albrecht |  |
| Pardoned & freed |
| 1953 | Dertinger, Georg |  |
| Arrested as a spy, held until 1954 |
| 1954 | Neurath, Constantin Freiher von |  |
| 1st Oct Spandau Released from Spandau prison |
| 1956 | Doenitz, Karl |  |
| 30th Sep Doenitz is released from prison |
| 1959 | Manteuffel, Hasso von |  |
| Found guilty of shooting a deserter in 1944 |
| 1966 | Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert |  |
| Spandau Albert Speer is released from Spandau |
| 1968 | Baader, Andraes |  |
| The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested & forcibly released by a Meinhof campaign |
| 1970 | Baader, Andraes |  |
| 4th April Berlin The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested |
| 14th May Berlin Meinhof & Mahler shoot their way into the Social Affairs Institute & release Baader |
| 1972 | Baader, Andraes |  |
| June The leaders are arrested, after 6 murders, 50 attempted murders & numerous bank raids |
| 1972 | Ensslin, Gudrun |  |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1972 | Meinhof, Ulrike |  |
| June Stuttgart The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart |
| 1975 | Lorenz, Peter |  |
| Released for five Red Army Faction prisoners & DM 20,000 |
| 1976 | Baader, Andraes |  |
| Baader is arrested |
| 1988 | Endrigkeit, Christine |  |
| 11th Jan Berlin Arrested for bombing La Belle Disco in 1986 which led to the USAbombing of Tripoli |
| 1989 | Honecker, Erich |  |
| Dec Expelled from the Communist Party, following allegations of corruption |
| Dec Placed under House arrest for treason, corruption & abuse of power |