# 1970 in Germany

Events in the year 1970 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* President – Gustav Heinemann
* Chancellor – Willy Brandt

## Events

* 16 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970
* Willy Brandt (SPD),
West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (19 March) and in Kassel (21 May) - the start of a new Ostpolitik (new eastern policy)
* 26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which is agreed on 3 September 1971)
* 26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival
* 12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
* 1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloyd
* 7 December – Warschauer Kniefall

### Landtag Elections

* 22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg
* 14 June:
** Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel (SPD) forms his second cabinet
** Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia (the SPD-FDP-coalition keeps its majority; MP Heinz Kühn forms his second cabinet)
** Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder (CDU) forms his fourth cabinet.

## Births

* 15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer
* 23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician
* 28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress
* 29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
* 2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician
* 5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
* 15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist
* 18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut
* 20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
* 18 April
** Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
** Esther Schweins, German comedian
* 20 April
** Sven Benken, German footballer and manager
** Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman (died 2022)
* 25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist
* 27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman
* 7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
* 20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician
* 6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (died 2016)
* 25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model
* 8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist (died 2022)
* 6 October – Corinna May, German singer
* 16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager
* 15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete

## Deaths

* 5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (born 1882)
* 27 January – Erich Heckel, German painter (born 1883)
* 30 January – Fritz Bayerlein, German general (born 1899)
* 16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor (born 1885)
* 30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1885)
* 3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (born 1897)
* 9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician (born 1902)
* 12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1891)
* 3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician (born 1877)
* 6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
* 1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate (born 1883)
* 10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (born 1918)
* 25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (born 1898)
* 3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1885)
* 4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist (born 1885)
* 14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (born 1876)