# 1953 in Germany

Events in the year 1953 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* President – Theodor Heuss
* Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

## Events

* 12 March - 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident
* 12 April - Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded.
* 10 May - The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
* 16/17 June - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
* 18 to 20 June - 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
* 7 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accident
* 6 September - West German federal election, 1953
* 20 October - The Second Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.
* Date unknown - Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.

## Births

* January 10 - Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete
* January 16 - Reinhard Jirgl, German writer
* January 22 - Jürgen Pommerenke, German football player
* January 24 - Ulrich Holbein, German writer
* January 31 - Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, German judge
* March 1 - Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower
* March 14 - Christian von Ditfurth, German historian
* March 24 - Mathias Richling, German comedian
* February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (died 1997)
* April 10 - Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
* May 11 - Thomas Middelhoff, German manager
* May 18 - Ute Kircheis-Wessel, German fencer
* June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (died 2007)
* June 23 - Michael Eichberger, German judge
* July 23 - Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, German weightlifter
* July 26 - Felix Magath, German footballer and football trainer
* July 30 - Heribert Prantl, German journalist
* August 17 - Andreas Kirchner, German Winter sportsman (died 2010)
* August 17 - Herta Müller, German writer
* August 27 - Gabriele Haefs, translator.
* August 29 - Rainer Pottel, German decathlete
* September 2 - Gerhard Thiele, German astronaut
* September 21 - Reinhard Marx, German cardinal of the Catholic Church
* November 7 - Ottfried Fischer, German actor
* November 16 - Brigitte Zypries, German politician
* October 1 - Klaus Wowereit, German politician
* October 10 - Martin Viessmann, German businessman
* October 15 - Günther Oettinger, German politician
* December 11 - Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist (died 2014)
* December 23 - Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman
* December 26 - Henning Schmitz, German musician
* December 29
** Thomas Bach, 9th president of the IOC
** Matthias Platzeck, German politician

## Deaths

* 28 January - Theophil Wurm, German leader in the German Protestant Church in the early twentieth century (born 1868)
* 20 January - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (born 1913)
* 24 February - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875)
* 28 March - Alfred Philippson, German geographer (born 1864)
* 2 April - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (born 1885)
* 20 April - Erich Weinert, German writer (born 1890)
* 12 May - Fritz Mackensen, German painter (born 1866)
* 18 May - Rudolf Nadolny, German diplomat (born 1873)
* 21 May - Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician (born 1871)
* 31 July - Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (born 1884)
* 13 August - Paul Kemp, German actor (born 1896)
* 15 August - Ludwig Prandtl, German engineer (born 1875)
* 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (born 1884)
* 29 September- Ernst Reuter, German politician (born 1889)
* 27 October — Eduard Künneke, German composer (born 1885)