# 1952 in Germany

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Events in the year 1952 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* President – Theodor Heuss
* Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

## Events

* Liquidation of German company IG Farben started.
* 25 April - The three states of Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and South Baden merge to form the modern southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg.
* 26 May - Porsche Club Hohensyburg is founded.
* 12 to 25 June - 2nd Berlin International Film Festival
* 24 June: German newspaper BILD was founded.

## Births

* 12 January - Florian Havemann, German judge, painter and composer
* 19 January - Nadiuska, German television actress
* 22 January - Aloys Wobben, German businessman
* 31 January - Jan Hofer, German journalist
* 13 February - Jörg Hacker, German microbiologist
* 17 February - Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
* 18 February - Ulrich Eicke, German canoeist
* 22 February - Thomas Wessinghage, German athlete
* 3 March - Wolfgang Kubicki, German football player
* 13 March - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer (died 2024)
* 18 March - Michaela May, German actress
* 24 March - Reinhard Genzel, German astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
* 4 April - Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper
* 14 April - Udo Voigt (NPD) politician
* 29 April - Barbara Hendricks, German politician
* 10 May - Ulrich Hahnen, German politician
* 10 May - Roland Kaiser, German singer
* 12 May - Norbert Stolzenburg, German footballer and manager
* 17 May - Bernhard Brink, German singer
* 2 June - Hildegard Krekel, German actress (died 2013)
* 12 June - Cornelia Hanisch, German fencer
* 25 June - Klaus Teuber, German board game designer (died 2023)
* 26 July - Heiner Brand, German handball player
* 28 July - Cordt Schnibben, German author and journalist
* 3 August - Axel Schäfer, German politician
* 6 August - Christoph Biemann, German writer
* 19 August
** Gabriela Grillo, German equestrian, Olympic champion (1976 (died 2024)
** Bodo Hombach, German politician
* 29 August - Falk Hoffmann, German diver
* 6 September - Dominik Graf, German film director
* 21 September - Anneliese Michel, German student (died 1976)
* 2 October - Peter Koslowski German philosopher and academic (died 2012)
* 28 October - Thomas Dinger, German musician (died 2002)
* 21 November - Corny Littmann, German entrepreneur, entertainer, theater owner
* 24 November - Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author
* 26 November - Jan Philipp Reemtsma, German literary scholar and political activist
* 3 December - Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist and actor
* 17 December - Jochen Bachfeld, German boxer
* undated - Ernst Stötzner, German actor

## Deaths

* 22 January - Alexander Behm, German physicist (born 1880)
* 25 January - Aloys, 7th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German politician (born 1871)
* 23 February - Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general (born 1887)
* 15 April - Ludwig Kaas, German politician (born 1881)
* 12 June - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (born 1869)
* 3 July - Carl Tanzler, radiologic technologist (born 1877)
* 4 July - Karl Platen, German actor (born 1877)
* 6 July - Gertrud Wolle, German actress (born 1891)
* 23 July - Carl Severing, German politician (born 1875)
* 31 July - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (born 1880)
* 12 August - Richard Otto, German physician (born 1872)
* 13 August - Wilm Hosenfeld, officer (born 1895)
* 18 December - Ernst Stromer, German paleontologist (born 1871)