1954 in Germany

1954 in Germany
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
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
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
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)
See also
1954 in German television
References
1950s in Germany
Years of the 20th century in Germany
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