1984 in Germany

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Events in the year 1984 in Germany .

Incumbents

• President - Karl Carstens (until 30 June), Richard von Weizsäcker (starting 1 July)
• Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

Events

• 17–28 February - 34th Berlin International Film Festival
• 29 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
• 17 June - 1984 European Parliament election in West Germany
• 24 August - Launch of the all-new Opel Kadett, which will be built in West Germany as well as other countries including Belgium and the United Kingdom.
• 7 October - East German Republic Day Parade of 1984
• December - The Opel Kadett is voted European Car of the Year, the first Opel car to win the award.
• Date unknown: German company Grundig is taken over by Netherlands company Philips.

Births

• 1 January – Christian Eigler, German footballer
• 9 January – Benjamin Danso, German rugby player
• 11 January – Mark Forster, German singer-songwriter
• 19 January – Aljona Savchenko, pair skater
• 25 January – Stefan Kießling, German football player
• 24 March – Philipp Petzschner, tennis player
• 26 March – Jürgen Spieß, weightlifter
• 31 May – Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (died 2018)
• 13 June – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German athlete
• 20 June – Dennis Malura, footballer
• 7 July – Stephanie Stumph, German actress
• 1 August – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer. ^[1]
• 5 August – Helene Fischer, German singer
• 29 August
  • Christian Lell, German footballer
  • Alexander Hug, rugby player
  • Helge Meeuw, German swimmer
• 29 September – Per Mertesacker, German footballer. ^[2]
• 11 October – Sebastian Ernst, German athlete
• 18 October
  • Robert Harting, German discus thrower
  • Annekatrin Thiele, German rower
• 13 October – Stefan Gruhner, German politician
• 24 October – Christian Reif, German athlete
• 24 November – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German ski racer
• 28 December – Martin Kaymer, German golfer ^[3]
• 31 December – David Maaß, German politician

Deaths

• 26 January – Leny Marenbach, German actress (born 1907)
• 22 February – Uwe Johnson, German writer (born 1932)
• 6 March – Martin Niemöller, German theologian and Lutheran pastor (born 1892) ^[4]
• 21 March – August Frank, Nazi German official, SS leader and convict at the Nuremberg trials (born 1898)
• 30 March – Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904) ^[5]
• 10 April – Willy Semmelrogge, German actor (born 1923)
• 15 April – Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1901) ^[6]
• 17 July – Karl Wolff, German Nazi SS Officer (born 1900)
• 9 October – Heinz von Cleve, German stage and film actor (born 1897)
• 21 October – Adolf Fischer, German actor (born 1900)
• 23 November – Paul Dahlke, German actor (born 1904)
• 28 November – Hans Speidel, German general (born 1897)
• 28 November – Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, German politician (born 1906)
• 11 December – Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization (born 1917)
• 16 December – Karl Deichgräber, German classical philologist (born 1903)

See also

• 1984 in German television

References

1. "Bastian Schweinsteiger". Kicker (in German). Olympia Verlag. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
2. "Per Mertesacker". Kicker (in German). Olympia Verlag. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
3. "Kaymer 'glad' he blew 10-shot lead". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
4. Pace, Eric (8 March 1984). "Martin Niemoller, Resolute Foe Of Hitler". New York Times .
5. Byers, Paula K.; Bourgoin, Suzanne M., eds. (2004). "Karl Rahner" . Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 13 (2nd ed.). Detroit, Michigan: Gale. pp. 4–5. ISBN   978-0-7876-2553-5.
6. C. Herzenberg: Grete Hermann: Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting, Volume 53, Number 5, 11–15 April 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri (abstract)