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1956 in Germany
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History of Germany
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Events in the year
1956 in
Germany
.
Incumbents
President
–
Theodor Heuss
[
1
]
Chancellor
–
Konrad Adenauer
Second Adenauer cabinet
Events
May 1 -
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956
June 22 - July 3 -
6th Berlin International Film Festival
October 27 -
Saar Treaty
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
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
3 July -
Gerhard Trabert
, 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
15 November -
Edgar Hartung
, 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
5 December -
Bettina Gaus
, journalist (d.
2021
)
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
)
17 June
–
Paul Rostock
, German surgeon (born
1892
)
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
1956 in German television
References
↑
"Theodor Heuss | German statesman"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
11 June
2019
.
↑
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
.
↑
"Karin GUTHKE - Olympic Diving | German Democratic Republic (1955-1990"
.
International Olympic Committee
. 14 June 2016
. Retrieved
14 July
2019
.
↑
"Richter, Emma"
.
www.deutsche-biographie.de
(in German)
. Retrieved
11 June
2019
.
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