1953 in Germany

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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.^[1]
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 24 - Georg Nagel, German biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate^[2]
August 27 - Gabriele Haefs, German translator^[3]
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 (died 2022)
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)

References

↑ Travel Guide, German Democratic Republic. Dresden: Zeit im Bild Publishing House. 1983. p. 89. The town...was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1953 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of the death of...Karl Marx
↑ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2026-10-05. Retrieved 2026-10-05.
↑ Rottem, Øystein. "Ingvar Ambjørnsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2 July 2016.

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[1] Travel Guide, German Democratic Republic. Dresden: Zeit im Bild Publishing House. 1983. p. 89. The town...was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1953 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of the death of...Karl Marx

[2] "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2026-10-05. Retrieved 2026-10-05.

[3] Rottem, Øystein. "Ingvar Ambjørnsen". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2 July 2016.

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