1919 in Germany
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Events in the year 1919 in Germany.
Incumbents[]
National level[]
- Vacant to 11 February, then Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) Chancellor
- Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) ("Head of Government") to 11 February, then Philipp Scheidemann (Social Democrats) to 20 June, then Gustav Bauer (Social Democrats)
Events[]
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- 5–15 January – Spartacist uprising
- 19 January – German federal election, 1919
- 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
- 29 March – University of Hamburg is established.
- 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
- 28 June – The Weimar Republic is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
- 12 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.[1]
Undated[]
- Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
- Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.
Births[]
- 29 January – Konrad Hesse, German judge (died 2005)
- 6 March – Michael Karkoc, German war criminal (died 2019)
- 27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian (died 2019)
- 3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt (died 2010)
- 6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died 2010)
- 23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress
- 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist
- 16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician (died 1996)
- 7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (died 2010)
- 8 July – Walter Scheel, German politician (died 2016)
- 31 August – Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic (died 2018)
- 30 August – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (died 2010)
- 5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died 1945)
- 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999)
- 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017)
- 3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist (died 2020)
- 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician (died 2008)
- 6 November – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter and Catholic martys (died 1943)[2]
- 9 November – John Herberger, German football player and coach (died 2002)
- 10 November – Kurt Schmücker, German politician (died 1996)
- 14 November – Lisa Otto, German soprano (died 2013)
- 30 November – Detlef Kraus, German pianist (died 2008)
- 31 December – Artur Fischer, German inventor (died 2016)
Deaths[]
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- 4 January ��� Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1843)
- 15 January – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (born 1871)
- 15 January – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
- 26 January – Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran (born )
- 28 January – Franz Mehring, German politician (born 1846)
- 21 February:
- 24 March – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (born 1870)
- 25 March – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (born 1881)
- 28 May – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist (born 1845)
- 7 June – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (born 1853)
- 2 July – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor (born 1848)
- 15 July – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1852)
- 19 July – Walter Brack, German swimmer (born 1880)
- 2 August:
- 9 August – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician (born 1834)
- 24 August – Friedrich Naumann, German politician (born 1860)
- 1 October – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
- 7 November – Hugo Haase, German politician (born 1863)
- 11 November – Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1851)
- 29 November – Fritz Schaper, German sculptor (born 1841)
References[]
- ^ "Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913–1919".
- ^ Jakob Knab: Die innere Vollendung der Person. Christoph Probst. In: , (Hrsg.): Die Stärkeren im Geiste. Zum christlichen Widerstand der Weißen Rose. Essen 2012. (in German)
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