1928 in Germany

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← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in Germany → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1928 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1928 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President

• Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Chancellor

• Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (2nd term) to 12 June, then from 28 June Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (2nd term)

Events

• May - October – Pressa held in Cologne
• 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor
• 1928 German federal election

Births

• 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian
• 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)
• 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician
• 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich
• 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
• 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (died 2020)
• 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
• 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (died 2021)^[1]
• 8 April – Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
• 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
• 22 April – , politician (died 2021)
• 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician
• 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
• 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
• 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor (d. 2017)
• 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (d. 2014)
• 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
• 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
• 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)^[2]
• 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)
• 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
• 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist
• 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (d. 1995)
• 12 November
  • Hanneli Goslar, German nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank
  • Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

• 27 February – Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)
• 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

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