# 1950 in Germany

Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany.

## Incumbents
### West Germany

* President – Theodor Heuss
* Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

### East Germany

* First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party – Walter Ulbricht
* President – Wilhelm Pieck
* Minister-President – Otto Grotewohl

## Events

* April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.
* June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.
* July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
* July 19 - The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
* August 5 - Publication of the Charter of German Expellees.
* September 7 - Schwarzwaldmädel, the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. It ushers in an era of local film in West Germany.
* September 19 - At the conference of foreign ministers of the three Western powers in New York, the federal government in Bonn was recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
* October 5-9 - Himmerod memorandum
* October 19 - East German general election, 1950

## Births

* January 9 - Rio Reiser, singer (died 1996)
* January 21 - Marion Becker, athlete
* January 22 - Werner Schulz, politician (died 2022)
* January 27 - Ulrich Deppendorf, journalist
* January 30 - Reinhold Kauder, canoeist
* February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
* February 8 - Manfred Milinski, biologist
* March 6 - Felix Genn, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
* March 22 - Hugo Egon Balder, actor and comedian
* March 22 - Herman Weigel, German film producer
* April 25 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)
* April 30 - Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, German judge
* May 12 - Renate Stecher, athlete
* May 16 - Georg Bednorz, physicist
* May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, actor and television presenter
* May 26 - Werner Bergmann, sociologist
* June 15 - Heidi Schüller, long jumper
* June 16 - Klaus Lage, singer
* June 21 - Ferdinand Kirchhof, judge
* June 20 - Gudrun Landgrebe, actress
* July 7 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, politician
* July 27- David Storl, track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put
* August 5 - Rosi Mittermaier, alpine ski racer (died 2023)
* August 12 – Iris Berben, actress
* September 2 - Michael Rother, musician
* September 23 - Dietmar Lorenz, judoka
* October 13 - Annegret Richter, athlete
* October 28 - Annette Humpe, singer
* November 10 - Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, historian
* November 17 - Roland Matthes, swimmer
* November 28 - Hans Fassnacht, swimmer

## Deaths

* 8 February - Arthur Kampf, German painter (born 1864)
* 9 February - Franz Justus Rarkowski, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1873)
* 12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)
* 3 March - Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (born 1886)
* 11 March - Heinrich Mann, German writer (born 1871)
* 3 April - Kurt Weill, German composer (born 1900)
* 22 April - Günther Rüdel, German general (born 1883)
* 27 April — Karl Straube, German organist (born 1873)
* 2 May — Paul Eugen Sieg, physicist and writer (born 1899)
* 3 May — August Marahrens, German Protestant bishop who served as Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (born 1875)
* 29 May — Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (born 1884)
* 29 June — Melitta Bentz, German inventor and entrepreneur (born 1873)
* 1 September - Fritz Kampers, German actor (born 1891)
* 10 October - Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (born 1894)
* 1 November - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (born 1876)
* 2 November - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (born 1886)
* 8 November — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist (born (1873)
* 30 November - Werner Haase, German surgeon (born 1900)
* 21 December - Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1880)
* 27 December — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)