1928 in Germany

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Events in the year 1928 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

• Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (to 28 June), Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (from 28 June)

Events

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

Births

• 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian
• 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)
• 3 January – Klaus Schulze, Olympic rower (d. 2013)
• 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)
• 16 January – Manfred Schukowski, astronomer (d. 2025)
• 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)
• 16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman (d. 2024)
• 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich
• 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
• 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (d. 2020)
• 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
• 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (d. 2021) ^[1]
• 8 April
  • Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024)
  • Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
• 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022) ^[2]
• 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
• 29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017) ^[3]
• 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022) ^[4]
• 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024)
• 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022)
• 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician ^[5]
• 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 (d. 2024)
• 28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian (d. 2024)
• 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
• 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021) ^[6]
• 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
  • Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank (d. 2022) ^[7]
  • Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

• 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851) ^[8]
• 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857) ^[9]
• 27 February
  • Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (born 1860)
  • Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)
• 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874) ^[10]
• 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864) ^[11]
• 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)
• 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)

References

1. Millington, Barry (26 April 2021). "Christa Ludwig obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
2. "Hardy Krüger obituary". The Guardian . 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023.
3. Heinz Wolff obituary
4. ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben (in German)
5. Kenneth L. Adelman (1989). East-West Relations in the 1990s - Politics and Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Roundtable Conference. Springer Netherlands. p. 140.
6. "Gerd Ruge, Reporterlegende der ARD ist tot". Der Spiegel (in German). 16 October 2021. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
7. "Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank's friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93". The Guardian. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
8. "Biografie Bernhard III.(German)". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
9. Daintith, John (1994). Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Bristol Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub. p. 195. ISBN   9780750302876.
10. Francis Dunlop (1991). Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler. Claridge Press. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-870626-71-2.
11. "Wilhelm Wien - Facts". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 22 August 2021.