# 1954 in Germany

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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
* 4 June - Hermann Gerland, German football manager
* 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
* 22 June - Wolfgang Becker, German film director and screenwriter (died 2024)
* 3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
* 17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
* 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)