1954 in Germany

Events in the year 1954 in Germany.

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

• 18 to 29 June - 4th Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 July - Germany wins in 1954 FIFA World Cup Final
• 17 October - East German general election, 1954
• Date unknown - Wittig reaction was discovered by Georg Wittig.
• Date unknown - The Angle grinder is invented by German company Ackermann + Schmitt (FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH).
• Date unknown - The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.

Births

• 4 January - Birgit Havenstein, German composer
• 16 January - Wolfgang Schmidt, German track and field athlete
• 19 January
  • Katharina Thalbach, German actress
  • Joachim Deckarm, German handball player
• 21 January - Thomas de Maizière, German politician
• 7 February - Dieter Bohlen, songwriter, producer, singer and television personality
• 10 February - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
• 19 February - Reiner Haseloff, German politician
• 26 February - Prince Ernst August of Hanover, German head of the deposed royal House of Hanover
• 1 March - Volker Wieker, German chief of staff of the Bundeswehr
• 6 March - Harald Schumacher, German football player
• 26 March
  • Jutta Speidel, German actress
  • Udo Di Fabio, German judge
• 1 April - Dieter Müller, German football player
• 9 April - Arnold Stadler, German writer
• 16 April - Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German author (died 2023)
• 19 April - Ingrid Peters, German singer
• 20 April
  • Gero von Boehm, German journalist
  • Martin Stratmann, German electrochemist and materials scientist
• 21 April - Sabine Engel, German discus thrower
• 1 May - Eckart Diesch, German sailor
• 24 May - Rainald Goetz, German author, playwright and essayist
• 8 June - Jochen Schümann, German sailor
• 10 June - Ute Frevert, German historian
• 13 June - Heiner Koch, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• 20 June - Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer and mathematician
• 3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
• 17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany^[1]
• 25 July - Jürgen Trittin, German politician
• 28 July - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
• 14 August - Berthold Albrecht, German entrepreneur (died 2012)
• 11 October - Sascha Hehn, German actor
• 12 October - Norbert Klaar, German sport shooter
• 3 November - Siegfried Mauser, German pianist
• 25 November - Rudolf Mellinghoff, German judge
• 14 December - Eva Mattes, German actress
• 24 December - Lorenz Caffier, German politician

Deaths

• January 15 - Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician (born 1883)
• January 19 - Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (born 1886)
• January 22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1872)
• February 6 - Friedrich Meinecke, German historian (born 1862)
• March 6
  • Hermann Dietrich, German politician (born 1879)
  • Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1884 in the United Kingdom)
• March 7 — Otto Diels, German chemist (born 1876)
• April 14 -Siegfried von Roedern, German politician (born 1870)
• May 6 - Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (born 1886)
• May 19 - Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1891)
• June 14 - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor (born 1882)
• June 27 - Theodor Loos, German actor (born 1883)
• July 1 - Thea von Harbou, German actress, novelist and film director (born 1888)
• July 16 - Herms Niel, German composer (born 1888)
• August 4 - Harald Paulsen, German actor (born 1895)
• August 7 - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (born 1874)
• August 25- Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (born 1886)
• September 5 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (born 1860)
• September 27 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (born 1881)
• October 29 - Hermann Ehlers, German politician (born 1904)
• October 30 - Gustav Dahrendorf, German politician (born 1901)
• November 11 - Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (born 1886)
• November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (born 1886)
• December 14 - Emil Rausch, German swimmer (born 1883)
• December 30 - Günther Quandt, German industrialist (born 1881)
• Date unknown — Franz Brandt, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)

See also

• 1954 in German television

References