1956 in Germany

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Events in the year 1956 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

  • President – Theodor Heuss[1]
  • Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events[]

Births[]

  • 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
  • 7 January
    • Leonard Lansink, actor
    • Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
  • 21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author
  • 16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician
  • 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
  • 27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer
  • 28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower
  • 20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher
  • 28 March - Evelin Jahl, German discus thrower
  • 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
  • 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
  • 18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (died 2017)
  • 31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician
  • 1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author[2]
  • 3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor
  • 6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete
  • 8 June - Udo Bullmann, German politician
  • 4 July - Bettina Böttinger, television presenter
  • 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
  • 24 July
    • Carmen Nebel, television presenter
    • Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, journalist
  • 1 August - Axel Milberg, actor
  • 12 August - Brigitte Kraus, athlete
  • 18 August - Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman Catholic Church
  • 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
  • 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
  • 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
  • 26 September - Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist
  • 30 September - Désirée Nick, actress and comedian
  • 3 October - Ralph Morgenstern, actor
  • 6 October - Rüdiger Helm, canoeist
  • 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
  • 23 November - Karin Guthke, Olympic diver[3]
  • 28 November - Michael Eissenhauer, art historian
  • 30 November - Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer
  • 5 December - Klaus Allofs, football player
  • 9 December - Henriette Reker, politician

Deaths[]

  • 1 January — Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer (born 1878)
  • 3 January — Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1879)
  • 13 January — Lyonel Feininger, German painter (born 1871)
  • 7 February - Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (born 1890)
  • 20 February — Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born 1881)
  • 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician (born 1873)
  • 21 March - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (born 1884)
  • 13 April — Emil Nolde, German painter (born 1867)
  • 16 April — Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist (born 1873)
  • 29 April - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born 1876)
  • 10 May - F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (born 1879)
  • 22 May - Walther Kossel, German physicist (born 1888)
  • 29 May — Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (born 1883)
  • 8 June - Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (born 1881)
  • 7 July — Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born 1886)
  • 14 August:
    • Bertolt Brecht, German writer (born 1898)
    • Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and Nazi party chancellor (born 1873)
  • 21 August - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1891)
  • 12 September - Hans Carossa, German novelist (born 1878)
  • 13 October - Robert Lehr, German politician (born 1883)
  • 2 November - Leo Baeck, German rabbi (born 1873)
  • 13 November - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (born 1927)
  • 15 November – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)[4]
  • 25 December — Robert Walser, German writer (born 1878)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Theodor Heuss | German statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. ^ Bründl, Jürgen; Klug, Florian (2017). Zentrum und Peripherie: Theologische Perspektiven auf Kirche und Gesellschaft ; Festschrift für Otmar Meuffels (in German). University of Bamberg Press. p. 76. ISBN 9783863094836.
  3. ^ "Karin GUTHKE - Olympic Diving | German Democratic Republic (1955-1990". International Olympic Committee. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Richter, Emma". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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