1928 in Germany
Germany-related events during the year of 1928
| |||||
| Decades: |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1928 History of Germany • Timeline • Years | ||||
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)
- 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)
- 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)
- 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 (died 2021)[1]
- 8 April – 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)
- 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)[3]
- 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician
- 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician[4]
- 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
- 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
- 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)[5]
- 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)[6]
- Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)
Deaths
- 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851)[7]
- 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857)[8]
- 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)[9]
- 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)[10]
- 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)
- 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)
References
- ^ Millington, Barry (26 April 2021). "Christa Ludwig obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Hardy Krüger obituary". The Guardian. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023.
- ^ ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben (in German)
- ^ Kenneth L. Adelman (1989). East-West Relations in the 1990s - Politics and Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Roundtable Conference. Springer Netherlands. p. 140.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank's friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93". The Guardian. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Biografie Bernhard III.(German)". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ Daintith, John (1994). Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Bristol Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub. p. 195. ISBN 9780750302876.
- ^ Francis Dunlop (1991). Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler. Claridge Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-870626-71-2.
- ^ "Wilhelm Wien - Facts". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- v
- t
- e
- 1901
- 1902
- 1903
- 1904
- 1905
- 1906
- 1907
- 1908
- 1909
- 1910
- 1911
- 1912
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- 1919
- 1920
- 1921
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- 1927
- 1928
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931
- 1932
- 1933
- 1934
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946
- 1947
- 1948
- 1949
- 1950
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
  | This German history article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
