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 27 - Gabriele Haefs, translator. ^[2]
• 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
• 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

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