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National level
- President - Paul von HindenburgPaul von HindenburgPaul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
- ChancellorChancellor of GermanyThe Chancellor of Germany is, under the German 1949 constitution, the head of government of Germany...
- Hermann MüllerHermann Müller (politician)' , born in Mannheim, was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister , and twice as Chancellor of Germany under the Weimar Republic...
(to 27 March), Heinrich BrüningHeinrich BrüningHeinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
{from 30 March) - Minister of Defence - Wilhelm GroenerWilhelm GroenerKarl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was a German soldier and politician.-Biography:He was born in Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of a regimental paymaster. He entered the Württemberg Army in 1884, and attended the War Academy from 1893 to 1897, whereupon he was appointed to the General...
- Minister of Economics - Robert Schmidt then Hermann R. Dietrich then Ernst Trendelenburg
- Minister of Finance - Paul Moldenhauer then Heinrich BrüningHeinrich BrüningHeinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
then Hermann R. Dietrich - Minister for Foreign AffairsMinister for Foreign Affairs (Germany)The Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs is the head of the Federal Foreign Office and a member of the Cabinet of Germany. The current office holder is Guido Westerwelle...
- Julius CurtiusJulius CurtiusJulius Curtius was Foreign Minister of Germany from October, 1929 to October 1931. Curtius was a member of the national-liberal German People's Party and worked closely with Heinrich Brüning to revise the Treaty of Versailles in Germany's favor. However, Curtius was not a member of Brüning's inner... - Minister of Labour - Rudolf WissellRudolf WissellRudolf Wissell was a German politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany . During the Weimar Republic, he held office as the Minister for Economics and the Minister for Labour.Wissell was a member of the SPD from 1888, and belonged to the right wing of the party...
then Adam StegerwaldAdam StegerwaldAdam Stegerwald was a German Catholic politician and a leader of the left wing of the Centre Party. He served as Prime Minister of Prussia in 1921, and later as a minister in the national governments of Hermann Müller and Heinrich Brüning... - Postal Minister - Georg Schätzel
- Minister of Transport - Adam StegerwaldAdam StegerwaldAdam Stegerwald was a German Catholic politician and a leader of the left wing of the Centre Party. He served as Prime Minister of Prussia in 1921, and later as a minister in the national governments of Hermann Müller and Heinrich Brüning...
then Theodor von GuérardTheodor von GuérardTheodor von Guérard was a German jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Justice during the Weimar Republic era in the early 1930s.-References:...
State level
- Minister-President of AnhaltFree State of AnhaltThe Free State of Anhalt was formed after Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt abdicated on 12 November 1918, ending the Duchy of Anhalt. It was a state of Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic...
- Heinrich Deist - President of the Republic of BadenRepublic of BadenThe Republic of Baden was a state of Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic, formed after the abolition of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1918...
- Franz Josef Wittemann - Minister-President of Bavaria - Heinrich HeldHeinrich HeldHeinrich Held was a Catholic politician and Minister President of Bavaria. He was forced out of office by the Nazi takeover in Germany in 1933.-Life:...
- Minister-President of the Republic of BrunswickFree State of BrunswickThe Free State of Brunswick was the republic formed after the abolition of the Duchy of Brunswick in the course of the German Revolution of 1918–19. It was a state of the German Reich in the time of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.-History:...
- Heinrich Jasper then Werner Küchenthal - President of Hesse - Bernhard Adelung
- Chairman of LippeFree State of LippeThe Free State of Lippe was a German state formed after the Principality of Lippe was abolished following the German Revolution of 1918.After the end of World War II, Lippe was restored from Nazi rule. This autonomy ended in January 1947 when British forces incorporated Lippe into the new German...
- Heinrich DrakeHeinrich DrakeHeinrich Drake was a German politician . He was Minister-President of the Free State of Lippe from 1920-1933 and again from 1945-1947, until Lippe was incorporated into the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia... - Minister-President of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFree State of Mecklenburg-SchwerinThe Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a state in the Weimar Republic that was established in 1918 following the abdication of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin following the German Revolution...
- Karl Eschenburg - Minister-President of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFree State of Mecklenburg-StrelitzThe Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a state of the Weimar Republic established in 1918 following the German Revolution which had overthrown the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...
- Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz - Prime Minister of the Republic of Oldenburg - Eugen von Finckh then Friedrich Cassebohm
- Minister-President of the Free State of Prussia - Otto BraunOtto BraunThis article is about the Prime Minister of Prussia. For the German Communist and once the Comintern military adviser to the Chinese Communist revolution see Otto Braun ....
- Minister-President of Saxony - Wilhelm Bünger (to 18 February) then Walther Schieck (from 6 May)
- State Councillor of Schaumburg-LippeFree State of Schaumburg-LippeThe Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe was created following the abdication of Prince Adolf II of Schaumburg-Lippe on 15 November 1918. It was a state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, headed by a Minister President. The democratic government was suppressed during Nazi rule...
- Heinrich Lorenz - Minister-President of ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
- Erwin Baum - President of the Free People's State of Württemberg - Eugen BolzEugen BolzEugen Anton Bolz was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime.- Life :Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Eugen Bolz was his parents' twelfth child. His father, Joseph Bolz, was a salesman. His mother was Maria Theresia Bolz . Bolz studied law in Tübingen and there became a...
Cities
- Mayor of Berlin - Arthur Scholtz
- Mayor of Bremen - Martin Donandt
- Mayor of Hamburg - Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Roß
- Mayor of Lübeck - Paul Löwigt
Events
- 23 January - The Nazi Party gains its first minister as Wilhelm FrickWilhelm FrickWilhelm Frick was a prominent German Nazi official serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was tried for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed...
becomes Minister of the Interior and Education in ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
as part of a right-wing coalition administration. - 27 March - The government of Hermann MüllerHermann Müller (politician)' , born in Mannheim, was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister , and twice as Chancellor of Germany under the Weimar Republic...
collapses. - 30 March - A right of centre minority government takes office under Heinrich BrüningHeinrich BrüningHeinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
. - 22 June - The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of SaxonyLandtag of SaxonyThe Landtag of Saxony, also referred to as the Parliament of Saxony or the Saxon Parliament, is the German state of Saxony's legislature...
- 30 June - The French ArmyFrench ArmyThe French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.As of 2010, the army employs 123,100 regulars, 18,350 part-time reservists and 7,700 Legionnaires. All soldiers are professionals, following the suspension of conscription, voted in...
withdraws its troops from the RhinelandRhinelandHistorically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....
. - 16 July - The government invokes Presidential Decree in order to force through its economic reforms.
- 18 July - The Social Democratic Party of GermanySocial Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
(SPD) force through a vote against the rule by decree resulting in the dissolution of the ReichstagReichstag (Weimar Republic)The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...
and new elections. - July - The German State PartyGerman State PartyThe German State Party was a short-lived German political party of the Weimar Republic, formed by the merger of the German Democratic Party with the People's National Reich Association in July 1930...
is formed by a merger of the German Democratic Party and the Young German OrderYoung German OrderThe Young German Order was a large para-military organisation in Weimar Germany. Its name and symbol were inspired by the Teutonic Knights ....
. - 13 August - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of BerlinRoman Catholic Archdiocese of BerlinThe Archdiocese of Berlin is a Roman Catholic archdiocese, seated in Berlin and covering the northeast of Germany.As of 2004 the archdiocese has 386,279 Catholics out of the population of Berlin, most of Brandenburg and Hither Pomerania, i. e. the German part of Pomerania...
is established. - 14 September - The federal election sees the SPD remain as the biggest party but with the Nazis jumping into second place. Smaller gains are enjoyed by the Communist Party of GermanyCommunist Party of GermanyThe Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...
, the Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' PartyChristian-National Peasants' and Farmers' PartyThe Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party was an agrarian political party of Weimar Germany. It developed from the German National People's Party in 1928....
and the Centre PartyCentre Party (Germany)The German Centre Party was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Formed in 1870, it battled the Kulturkampf which the Prussian government launched to reduce the power of the Catholic Church...
whilst the main losers are the German National People's PartyGerman National People's PartyThe German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and...
and the German People's PartyGerman People's PartyThe German People's Party was a national liberal party in Weimar Germany and a successor to the National Liberal Party of the German Empire.-Ideology:...
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Arts
- 23 February - Erich Maria RemarqueErich Maria RemarqueErich Maria Remarque was a German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.-Life and work:...
's anti-warAnti-warAn anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. Many...
classic All Quiet on the Western FrontAll Quiet on the Western FrontAll Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.The...
is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick. - Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
's Der JasagerDer JasagerDer Jasager is an opera by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht .Its companion piece is Der Neinsager...
, Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
's Leben des OrestLeben des OrestLeben des Orest is a grand opera in five acts with words and music both by Ernst Krenek. It is his opus 60 and the first of his own libretti with an antique setting. The score is inscribed with the dates of composition: August 8, 1928 – May 13, 1929, and includes indications of recommended cuts...
and Arnold SchoenbergArnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
's Von heute auf morgenVon heute auf morgenVon heute auf morgen is a one act opera composed by Arnold Schoenberg, to a German libretto by "Max Blonda," the pseudonym of Gertrud Schoenberg, the composer's wife...
. - Fritz Reck-MalleczewenFritz Reck-MalleczewenFriedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen was a German author.Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen was born on the estate of Malleczewen, Masuria ,the son of the Prussian Politician and landowner Hermann Reck. He originally wanted to be a musician, and at one point studied medicine in Innsbruck...
's comedy novel Bomben auf Monte CarloBomben auf Monte Carlo (novel)Bomben auf Monte Carlo is a 1930 German comedy novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. The penniless captain of a vessel puts into Monte Carlo, hoping to raise money at the gaming tables to pay his crew. While there he becomes entangled with a monarch in disguise....
is published. - Nationalsozialistische MonatshefteNationalsozialistische MonatshefteThe Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte was a political and cultural journal produced by the Nazi Party and edited by Alfred Rosenberg. Its first edition was published in 1930...
, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred RosenbergAlfred Rosenberg' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...
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Science
- The Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
is won by Hans FischerHans FischerHans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.-Early years:...
. - The IG Farben BuildingIG Farben BuildingThe IG Farben Building or the Poelzig Building was built from 1928 to 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is also known as the Poelzig Ensemble or Poelzig Complex, and previously as the IG Farben Complex, and the General Creighton W....
, the headquarters of the chemical company IG FarbenIG FarbenI.G. Farbenindustrie AG was a German chemical industry conglomerate. Its name is taken from Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG . The company was formed in 1925 from a number of major companies that had been working together closely since World War I...
, is completed in FrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
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Sport
- 4-8 June - Albert LeidmannAlbert LeidmannAlbert Leidmann was a German boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he was eliminated in the second round of the middleweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Léonard Steyaert.-External links:*...
takes silver in the Light-Heavyweight division at the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships1930 European Amateur Boxing ChampionshipsThe 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 4 to 8 June. It was the 3rd edition of the competition, organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 64 fighters from 11 countries participating....
. - 12 June - Max SchmelingMax SchmelingMaximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing, and became worldwide social events because of their national associations...
defeats Jack SharkeyJack SharkeyJack Sharkey was an American heavyweight boxing champion. He was born Joseph Paul Zukauskas , the son of Lithuanian immigrants, in Binghamton, New York but moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a young man...
by disqualification in The BronxThe BronxThe Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
to win the vacant New York State Athletic CommissionNew York State Athletic CommissionThe New York State Athletic Commission or NYSAC, also known as the New York Athletic Commission, regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New York, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, professional wrestlers, seconds, ring officials,...
and National Boxing Association World Heavywieght Championships. Schmeling is the first German World Heavyweight Champion under the Marquess of Queensberry RulesMarquess of Queensberry rulesThe Marquess of Queensberry rules is a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. They were named so because John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code, although they were written by a sportsman named John Graham Chambers. The code of rules on which modern...
. - 13-27 July - The 3rd Chess Olympiad3rd Chess OlympiadThe 3rd Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg, Germany...
is held in HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
with the hosts finishing third. - Hertha BSC are crowned German football championsGerman football championsThe German football champions are the annual winners of the highest association football competition in Germany. The history of the German football championship is complex and reflects the turbulent history of the country through the course of the 20th century.Brought to the country by English...
after defeating Holstein KielHolstein KielHolstein Kiel is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. Through the 1910s and 1920s the club was a dominant side in northern Germany winning six regional titles and finishing as runners-up another six times...
in the final. - The 1930 European Figure Skating Championships1930 European Figure Skating ChampionshipsThe 1930 European Figure Skating Championships were the European Figure Skating Championships of the 1929-1930 season. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU Member Nations competed for the title of European Champion...
are held in BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
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Transport
- 22 January - struck a rock off Ushuia, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and sank with the loss of her captain. - 26 July - The cargo schooner NobiskrugNobiskrugNobiskrug Ltd. is a shipbuilding company located on the Eider River in Rendsburg, Germany, specializing in building luxury yachts. It is now a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi MAR. The shipyard currently employs some 400 people....
is launched from RendsburgRendsburgRendsburg is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476.-History:...
harbour. - 5 October - The Junkers Ju 52Junkers Ju 52The Junkers Ju 52 was a German transport aircraft manufactured from 1932 to 1945. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa as an airliner and freight hauler...
makes its maiden flight. - The airship LZ 127 Graf ZeppelinLZ 127 Graf ZeppelinLZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German built and operated passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a Graf or Count in the German nobility. During its operating life,...
makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic. - The luxury car Mercedes-Benz 770Mercedes-Benz 770The Mercedes-Benz 770, also known as the Großer Mercedes was a luxury automobile built by Mercedes-Benz from 1930 to 1943. It is probably best known from archival footage of high-ranking Nazi officials before and during World War II, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring.-Series I - W07 :The...
begins production.
Births
- 2 January - Gerhard GeiseGerhard GeiseGerhard Paul Geise was a German mathematician and professor of pure mathematics.He died after a long serious illness in Dresden.-Works :* 1961: Über ähnlich-veränderliche ebene Systeme...
, mathematician - 4 January - Christoph AlbrechtChristoph AlbrechtChristoph Albrecht is a German organist, conductor, composer, musicologist, and music educator. He has toured extensively as an organist, appearing in concerts and recitals throughout Europe and in the United States. He is the author of several publications on the topics of liturgy and hymnology...
, organist - 9 January - Carl-Ludwig WagnerCarl-Ludwig WagnerCarl-Ludwig Wagner is a German politician of the . Today he lives in Eitelsbach, a part of Trier.He was Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1988 to 1991, Minster from 1979 to 1988 , a member of the Bundestag and worked for the European Parliament in Luxembourg from 1959 to 1969.After...
, CDUChristian Democratic Union (Germany)The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
politician - 11 January - Hartmut GründlerHartmut GründlerHartmut Gründler was a German teacher from Tübingen, engaged in environmental protection, who burned himself out of protest against the misinformation in the atomic policy of the German Federal Government at that time, which were documented by him, but officially never taken back, and the denial...
, protestor who committed self-immolationSelf-immolationSelf-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest... - 12 January - Klaus ScholderKlaus ScholderKlaus Scholder was a German ecclesiastical historian, professor of history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen university.-Life:...
, ecclesiastical historian - 26 January - Reinhart HummelReinhart HummelReinhart Hummel was a German theologian and long-term leader of the Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen . The EZW is a subdivision of the Evangelical Church in Germany...
, theologian - 28 January - Kurt BiedenkopfKurt BiedenkopfKurt Hans Biedenkopf is a German politician. He was Ministerpräsident of the Free State of Saxony from 1990 until 2002, as such serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1999/2000.- Biography :...
, CDU politician - 30 January - Alfred HerrhausenAlfred HerrhausenAlfred Herrhausen was a German banker and Chairman of Deutsche Bank. From 1971 onwards he was a member of the bank's board of directors....
, banker - 8 February - Erich BöhmeErich BöhmeErich Böhme was a German journalist and television host. He served as editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel from 1973 to 1989. In 1990 he took over as host of Talk im Turm, a weekly talk show on Sat.1....
, journalist and broadcaster - 8 February - Hans GrauertHans GrauertHans Grauert was a German mathematician. He is known for major works on several complex variables, complex manifolds and the application of sheaf theory in this area, which influenced later work in algebraic geometry. Together with Reinhold Remmert he established and developed the theory of...
, mathematician - 18 February - Gerd AretzGerd AretzGerd Aretz was a German artist. Since 1960 until his death he designed postage stamp for the Deutsche Bundespost including the Women in German history series portraits....
, artist - 21 February - Gerhard ScherhornGerhard ScherhornGerhard Scherhorn is a German Professor and economist.- Career :* Doctoral thesis on "Needs and Wants" 1959* Qualification as a university lecturer in Economics at the University of Cologne 1965...
, economist - 23 February - Ignaz KiechleIgnaz KiechleIgnaz Kiechle was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria....
, CSUChristian Social Union of BavariaThe Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...
politician - 3 March - Heiner GeißlerHeiner GeißlerHeiner Geißler is a German politician with the Christian Democratic Union party.Geißler studied law and philosophy in Munich and Tübingen, where he graduated in 1960....
, CDU politician - 8 March - Almuth LütkenhausAlmuth LütkenhausAlmuth Lütkenhaus was a sculptor, also known as Almuth Lütkenhaus-Lackey. From 1948 until 1952 she studied art at schools in Dortmund and Münster. She married Erich Lütkenhaus, an artist, in 1952, from whom she later separated...
, sculptor - 10 March - Fritz SchenkFritz SchenkFritz Schenk was a German publicist, journalist and television anchorman. He become well-known for the general public thanks to his participation in ZDF-Magazin.- Family :...
, broadcast journalist - 14 March - Helga FeddersenHelga FeddersenHelga Feddersen was a popular German actress, comedienne, singer, author, and theater director....
, entertainer - 14 March - Dieter SchnebelDieter SchnebelDieter Schnebel is a composer. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Berlin Hochschule der Künste.-Career:...
, composer - 3 April - Helmut KohlHelmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...
, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany - 11 April - Walter Krüger, athlete
- 14 April - Martin Adolf BormannMartin Adolf BormannMartin Adolf Bormann is the eldest of ten children of Martin Bormann and the godson of Adolf Hitler.-Early life:...
, priest, son of Martin BormannMartin BormannMartin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...
and godson of Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945... - 21 April - Eva ProbstEva ProbstEva Probst is a German actress.Born in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Probst was married to Austrian actor Gerhard Riedmann from 1954 to 1960. In the 1950s she starred in romantic comedy films and Heimatfilme. From its inception in 1992 until the following year she played Jessica Naumann in the German soap...
, actress - 25 April - Peter SchulzPeter SchulzPeter Schulz is a German politician, member of the Social Democratic Party and First Mayor of Hamburg .Schulz was born in Rostock...
, SPDSocial Democratic Party of GermanyThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
politician - 29 April - Claus OgermanClaus OgermanClaus Ogerman is a German musical arranger/ orchestrator, conductor, and composer, best known for his works with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra and Diana Krall.-Life and work:...
, arranger and orchestrator - 7 May - Horst BienekHorst BienekHorst Bienek was a German novelist.Bienek was born in Gleiwitz, Germany . He was forced to leave Gleiwitz in 1945, when the use of the German language was forbidden in Silesia. He resettled in the eastern part of Germany. For a time, he was taught by Bertolt Brecht...
, novelist - 17 May - Alfons Lütke-WesthuesAlfons Lütke-WesthuesAlfons Lütke-Westhues was a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in show jumping with the German team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Stockholm....
, equestrian - 29 May - Burkhard HirschBurkhard HirschBurkhard Hirsch is a German politician and civil liberties advocate. A member of the Free Democratic Party, Hirsch spent 21 years in the German Bundestag...
, FDPFree Democratic Party (Germany)The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government...
politician - 29 May - Ekkehard SchallEkkehard SchallEkkehard Schall was a German stage and screen actor/director.He was one of the best profiled actors of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner Ensemble....
, actor/director - 3 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, astronomer
- 5 June - Carl Otto LenzCarl Otto LenzCarl Otto Lenz is a German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag for the CDU and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice .- Biography :...
, lawyer and CDU politician - 8 June - Robert AumannRobert AumannRobert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel...
, German-born Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate - 13 June - Gotthard GraubnerGotthard GraubnerGotthard Graubner is a German painter. He was born in Erlbach, in Saxony, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, before becoming a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, in 1969...
, painter - 22 June - Reinhold RemmertReinhold RemmertReinhold Remmert is a German mathematician born in Osnabrück, Germany. He studied mathematics, mathematical logic and physics in Münster. He established and developed the theory of complex spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert...
, mathematician - 26 June - Wolfgang SchwanitzWolfgang SchwanitzWolfgang Schwanitz was the last head of the Stasi, the East German secret police, that was officially renamed the "Office for National Security" on November 17, 1989...
, head of the StasiStasiThe Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered... - 27 June - Volker VogelerVolker VogelerVolker Vogeler was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 13 films between 1967 and 2000. His 1971 film Jaider, der einsame Jäger was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....
, film director - 30 June - Karl-Heinz HolzeKarl-Heinz HolzeKarl-Heinz Holze was a German footballer....
, footballer - 6 July - Herbert ErhardtHerbert ErhardtHerbert 'Ertl' Erhard , also known as Herbert Erhardt, was a German footballer. As a central defender, he played for SpVgg Fürth and Bayern Munich. He was known for his hard tackling, doggedness and captain like performances...
, footballer - 14 July - Horst RittelHorst RittelHorst Willhelm Jakob Rittel was a German-born design theorist and university professor. He is best-known Horst Willhelm Jakob Rittel (* 14 July 1930 in Berlin, † 9 July 1990 in Heidelberg) was a German-born design theorist and university professor. He is best-known Horst Willhelm Jakob Rittel (*...
, design theorist - 16 July - Horst RittnerHorst RittnerHorst Robert Rittner is a German chess player, most famous for being the sixth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1968 and 1971....
, chess player - 20 July - Heinz KubschHeinz KubschHeinz Kubsch was a German football goalkeeper.He was part of the West German team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned three caps for West Germany. During his club career he played for FK Pirmasens....
, footballer - 23 July - Ingrid HartmannIngrid HartmannIngrid Hartmann is a German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She won the K-2 500 m silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome....
, sprint canoer - 28 July - Hans SchröderHans SchröderHans Schröder was a German sculptor and painter.-Awards:*1953 Auszeichnung des Hanauer Goldschmiedehauses*1958 Ehrenpreis der École Française...
, sculptor and painter - 30 July - Helmut KirchmeyerHelmut KirchmeyerProf. Dr. phil. Helmut Franz Maria Kirchmeyer is a German Musicologist, Philologist and Historian.- Work Life :...
, musicologist - 4 August - Götz FriedrichGötz FriedrichGötz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.He was a student and assistant of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin in Berlin, where he went on to direct his early productions...
, opera and theatre director - 11 August - Heinz Werner ZimmermannHeinz Werner ZimmermannHeinz Werner Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Institut for Protestant Church Music there...
, composer - 25 August - Rainer ZepperitzRainer ZepperitzRainer Zepperitz was a German double bassist.- Background :In his childhood he first learned the violin before moving to the relocation of his family to Germany at the Dusseldorf Conservatory at Arthur Däwel and he learned the double bass...
, double bassist - 19 September - Ernst-Wolfgang BöckenfördeErnst-Wolfgang BöckenfördeErnst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is a German judge and legal philosopher.-Life:In 1953 he received a PhD in law as well as in philosophy. In 1964 he made his postdoctoral habilitation with his thesis The power of organisation in the purview of the government. A survey on constitutional law in the...
, judge - 20 September - Adolf EndlerAdolf EndlerAdolf Endler was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic up until the collapse of communism in the early 1990s...
, author - 24 September - Horst SachtlebenHorst SachtlebenHorst Sachtleben is a German television actor and director.After studying theory of drama, Germanic philology and history of art in Berlin he concentrated on his acting career. He had various engagements at the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, Schauspielhaus in Zürich, Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel in...
, actor - 26 September - Fritz WunderlichFritz WunderlichFriedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and Italian and German opera and lieder. He died in an accident when he was only 35...
, opera singer - 5 October - Reinhard SeltenReinhard Selten-Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
, economist - 11 October - Harry GlaßHarry GlaßHarry Glaß was a German ski jumper. Born in Klingenthal, he won a Bronze medal in the Individual Large Hill event at the 1956 Winter Olympics....
, ski jumper - 17 October - Freimut BörngenFreimut BörngenFreimut Börngen is a German astronomer. A few sources give his first name wrongly as Freimuth.He has studied galaxies with the Schmidt telescope at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. In 1995 he retired, but continues to work as a freelancer for the observatory...
, astronomer - 17 October - Karl-Wilhelm WelweiKarl-Wilhelm WelweiKarl-Wilhelm Welwei is a German historian, who is regarded as one of the most notable experts on the history of Ancient Greece.-Biopgraphy:...
, historian - 5 November - HansHans MommsenHans Mommsen is a left-wing German historian. He is the twin brother of the late Wolfgang Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grandson of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of...
and Wolfgang MommsenWolfgang MommsenWolfgang Justin Mommsen was a German historian. He was the twin brother of Hans Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen. He was educated at the University of Marburg, University of Cologne and University of Leeds between 1951–1959...
, historians and twin brothers - 20 November - Rudi FelgenheierRudi FelgenheierRudi Felgenheier is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. His best year was in 1952 when he won the 250cc German Grand Prix and finished the season in fifth place in the 250cc world championship. Felgenheimer was seriously injured during practice for the 1953 Isle of Man TT.-...
, motorcycle racer - 22 November - Ferdinand von BismarckFerdinand von BismarckFerdinand, Prince von Bismarck is a German politician and the Prince of Bismarck since 1975.The son of politician and diplomat Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck and great-grandson of statesman Otto von Bismarck, the founder of modern Germany, he grew up in London, Rome and Sweden, and went to...
, Fürst von BismarckFürst von BismarckThe great German statesman and diplomat Otto von Bismarck received several noble titles during the course of his career.Born into a Junker family as simply Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, he was created Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen in 1865, following the Prussian victory over Denmark in the... - 26 November - Berthold LeibingerBerthold LeibingerBerthold Leibinger is a German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is founder of the non-profit foundation Berthold Leibinger Stiftung and Associate and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German company Trumpf.- His Life :Born in Stuttgart, Berthold Leibinger graduated with Abitur...
, engineer - 27 November - Reinhard GlemnitzReinhard GlemnitzReinhard Glemnitz is a German television actor.-External links:*...
, actor - 1 December - Joachim HoffmannJoachim HoffmannJoachim Hoffmann was a German historian and scientific director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office.-Life:...
, historian - 9 December - Carl-August FleischhauerCarl-August FleischhauerCarl-August Fleischhauer was a judge at the International Court of Justice, of which he has been a member since 6 February 1994 until 2003.- External links :*...
, judge - 10 December - Avraham AhituvAvraham AhituvAvraham Ahituv, born Avraham Gottfried was a German-born Israeli politician, having served as Director of the Shabak, the Israel Security Agency, from 1974 to 1980....
, German-born Israeli intelligence chief - 13 December - Nathan ZachNathan ZachNathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
, German-born Israeli poet - 17 December - Erhard GeißlerErhard GeißlerErhard Geißler is a German biologist and geneticist.- Biography :Geißler was a professor for genetics at the University of Rostock. Between 1965 and 1971 he was dean of the university...
, biologist - 17 December - Armin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
, film actor - 19 December - Georg StollenwerkGeorg StollenwerkGeorg Stollenwerk is a former German footballer and trainer.His career started with SD Düren 99. From 1953 to 1966 he played for 1. FC Köln as defender and midfielder. The member of the German 1958 FIFA World Cup squad won 23 caps and scored two goals.Stollenwerk began his international career in...
, footballer - 21 December - Wolfgang PietzschWolfgang PietzschWolfgang Pietzsch was a chess Grandmaster . He played in the Chess Olympiads of 1952, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1966 and 1968.-External links:...
, chess grand master - 26 December - Wilferd MadelungWilferd MadelungWilferd Ferdinand Madelung is a scholar of Islam. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where he completed his early education at Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium....
, scholar of IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
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- 3 January - Guglielmo PlüschowGuglielmo PlüschowGuglielmo Plüschow , was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males...
, photographer - 14 January - Hermann von HatzfeldtHermann von HatzfeldtHermann von Hatzfeldt was a German civil servant and politician. He represented the Deutsche Reichspartei in the Reichstag for a number of years.-References:...
, civil servant - 24 January - Adolf KneserAdolf KneserAdolf Kneser was a German mathematician.He was born in Grüssow, Mecklenburg, Germany and died in Breslau, Germany ....
, mathematician - 5 February - Friedrich von DuhnFriedrich von DuhnFriedrich von Duhn was a German Classical scholar who taught at the University of Heidelberg, where he headed the Institut für Klassische Archäologie ; his most memorable feat was in recognizing scattered fragments of sculpture as the remains of Augustus' Ara Pacis.His masterwork on the funerary...
, classical scholar - 9 February - Augustinus BludauAugustinus BludauAugustinus Bludau was a Bishop of Ermland in East Prussia from 1909–1930.Bludau was born in Guttstadt as a son of a tailor. After attending the Gymnasium in Elbing, he started to study Catholic divinity at the Collegium Hosianum in Braunsberg...
, Bishop of Ermland - 23 February - Horst WesselHorst WesselHorst Ludwig Wessel was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930...
, SturmabteilungSturmabteilungThe Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
member and Nazi Party "martyr" - 24 February - Hermann von IheringHermann von IheringHermann von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.-Biography:...
, zoologist - 6 March - Alfred von TirpitzAlfred von TirpitzAlfred von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871...
, Admiral and founder of the German Imperial Navy - 10 March - Paul von BreitenbachPaul von BreitenbachPaul Justin von Breitenbach was a Prussian politician and railway planner.Breitenbach was central to the building of the underground in Berlin, specifically the line between the city center and Berlin-Dahlem...
, railway planner - 31 March - Emil KrebsEmil KrebsEmil Krebs was a German polyglot and sinologist. He mastered 68 languages in speech and writing and studied 120 other languages.-The early years:...
, sinologist - 31 March - Ludwig SchülerLudwig SchülerLudwig Schüler was a German politician and from 17 September 1884 until 20 May 1907 mayor of Marburg.- References :...
, Mayor of Marburg - 19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand KüsterErnst Georg Ferdinand KüsterErnst Georg Ferdinand Küster was a German surgeon born in Wollin.He studied medicine in Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin, and following graduation became an assistant to Robert Ferdinand Wilms at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin...
, surgeon - 30 April Max MaurenbrecherMax MaurenbrecherMax Maurenbrecher was a German politician and pastor from Königsberg. He served as a pastor in the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces until 1907. From 1909 to 1916 he preached for the free religious congregations in Nuremberg and Mannheim...
, SPD and Fatherland PartyFatherland Party (Germany)German Fatherland Party was a pro-war party in the German Empire.The party was founded close to the end of 1917 and represented political circles supporting the war. Among founding members were Wolfgang Kapp and Alfred von Tirpitz . Walter Nicolai, head of the military secret service, was also...
politician - 29 May - Ludwig RehnLudwig RehnLudwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn was a German surgeon. Rehn was born in 1849, in the village of Allendorf, the youngest of five children...
, surgeon - 7 June - Julius SmendJulius SmendJulius Smend was a German theologian who was born in Lengerich, Westphalia. He was brother to theologian Rudolf Smend and father to musicologist Friedrich Smend ....
, theologian - 10 June - Adolf von HarnackAdolf von HarnackAdolf von Harnack , was a German theologian and prominent church historian.He produced many religious publications from 1873-1912....
, theologian - 8 July - Gustav WeigandGustav WeigandGustav Weigand , was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Rumanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan...
, linguist - 29 July - Theodor AxenfeldTheodor AxenfeldKarl Theodor Paul Polykarpus Axenfeld was a German ophthalmologist who was born in Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire to a German minister. As a child his family moved back to Germany in the town of Godesberg. He received his medical doctorate in 1890 from the University of Marburg...
, ophthalmologist - 8 August - Walther ReinhardtWalther ReinhardtWalther Reinhardt was a German officer who served as the last Prussian Minister of War and the first head of the army command within the Ministry of the Reichswehr.-External links:*...
, Army officer - 10 September - Eugen DiederichsEugen DiederichsEugen Diederichs was a German publisher from Löbitz.Diederichs started his publishing company in Florence, Italy, in 1896. He moved on to Leipzig, where he published the early works of Herman Hesse, and from there to Jena in 1904. He started publishing the magazine Die Tat in 1912...
, publisher - 20 September - Moritz PaschMoritz PaschMoritz Pasch was a German mathematician specializing in the foundations of geometry. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau at only 22 years of age...
, mathematician - 28 September - Prince Leopold of BavariaPrince Leopold of BavariaLeopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf, Prinz von Bayern was born in Munich, the son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and his wife Archduchess Augusta of Austria...
, nobleman and Field Marshal - 10 October - Adolf EnglerAdolf EnglerHeinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...
, botanist - 27 October - Alexander BaerwaldAlexander BaerwaldAlexander Baerwald was a German Jewish architect best known for his work in Haifa, Israel.Baerwald was born in Berlin, Germany on 3 March 1877. He studied at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg , interrupted by the summer semester 1898 at the Technische Hochschule of Munich...
, architect - 17 November - Hans KniepHans KniepKarl Johannes Kniep was a German botanist who was a native of Jena.He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, and botany in Jena with Christian Ernst Stahl , where he received his doctorate in 1904...
, botanist - 11 December - Friedrich von BernhardiFriedrich von BernhardiFriedrich Adolf Julius von Bernhardi was a Prussian general and military historian. He was one of the best-selling authors prior to World War I. A militarist, he is perhaps best known for his bellicose book Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg , printed in 1911...
, Prussian Army general - 15 December - Johannes HoffmannJohannes HoffmannJohannes Hoffmann was a Bavarian Minister-President and member of the SPD.-Life:Born in Ilbesheim, near Landau, his parents were Peter Hoffmann and Maria Eva Keller...
, SPD Minister-President of Bavaria - 16 December - Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand OesterleyCarl August Heinrich Ferdinand OesterleyCarl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley was a German landscape painter who was a native of Göttingen...
, painter - 19 December - Conrad WillgerodtConrad WillgerodtConrad Heinrich Christoph Willgerodt was a German chemist and discovered of the Willgerodt reaction. He was also the discoverer of Iodosobenzene.Willgerodt was a professor at the University of Freiburg.-References:...
, chemist - 26 December - Eugen GoldsteinEugen GoldsteinEugen Goldstein was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.- Life :...
, physicist