1950 in Germany

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Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany.

Incumbents

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West Germany

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  • President – Theodor Heuss
  • Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

East Germany

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  • First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party – Walter Ulbricht
  • President – Wilhelm Pieck
  • Minister-President – Otto Grotewohl

Events

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  • April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.
  • June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.
  • July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
  • July 19 - The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
  • August 5 - Publication of the Charter of German Expellees.
  • September 7 - Schwarzwaldmädel, the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. It ushers in an era of local film in West Germany.
  • September 19 - At the conference of foreign ministers of the three Western powers in New York, the federal government in Bonn was recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
  • October 5-9 - Himmerod memorandum
  • October 19 - East German general election, 1950

Births

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  • January 9 - Rio Reiser, singer (died 1996)
  • January 21 - Marion Becker, athlete
  • January 22 - Werner Schulz, politician (died 2022)
  • January 27 - Ulrich Deppendorf, journalist
  • January 30 - Reinhold Kauder, canoeist
  • February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
  • February 8 - Manfred Milinski, biologist
  • March 6 - Felix Genn, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
  • March 12 – Traudl Treichl, German alpine skier
  • March 22 - Hugo Egon Balder, actor and comedian
  • March 22 - Herman Weigel, German film producer
  • April 25 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)
  • April 30 - Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, German judge
  • May 12 - Renate Stecher, athlete
  • May 16 - Georg Bednorz, physicist
  • May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, actor and television presenter
  • May 26 - Werner Bergmann, sociologist
  • May 31 - Christine Kurzhals, politician (died 1998)[1]
  • June 15 - Heidi Schüller, long jumper
  • June 16 - Klaus Lage, singer
  • June 21 - Ferdinand Kirchhof, judge
  • June 20 - Gudrun Landgrebe, actress
  • July 7 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, politician
  • July 27- David Storl, track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put
  • August 5 - Rosi Mittermaier, alpine ski racer (died 2023)
  • August 12 – Iris Berben, actress
  • September 2 - Michael Rother, musician
  • September 23 - Dietmar Lorenz, judoka
  • October 13 - Annegret Richter, athlete
  • October 28 - Annette Humpe, singer
  • November 10 - Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, historian
  • November 17 - Roland Matthes, swimmer
  • November 28 - Hans Fassnacht, swimmer

Deaths

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  • 8 February - Arthur Kampf, German painter (born 1864)
  • 9 February - Franz Justus Rarkowski, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1873)
  • 12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)
  • 3 March - Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (born 1886)
  • 11 March - Heinrich Mann, German writer (born 1871)
  • 3 April - Kurt Weill, German composer (born 1900)[2]
  • 22 April - Günther Rüdel, German general (born 1883)
  • 27 April — Karl Straube, German organist (born 1873)[3]
  • 2 May — Paul Eugen Sieg, physicist and writer (born 1899)
  • 3 May — August Marahrens, German Protestant bishop who served as Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (born 1875)
  • 29 May — Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (born 1884)
  • 29 June — Melitta Bentz, German inventor and entrepreneur (born 1873)
  • 1 September - Fritz Kampers, German actor (born 1891)
  • 10 October - Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (born 1894)
  • 1 November - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (born 1876)
  • 2 November - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (born 1886)
  • 8 November — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist (born (1873)
  • 30 November - Werner Haase, German surgeon (born 1900)
  • 21 December - Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1880)
  • 27 December — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)

References

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  1. ^ "Biographie des MdB Christine Kurzhals, SPD" [Biography of MP Christine Kurzhals, SPD]. Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  2. ^ Mercado, Mario R. (1989). Kurt Weill: A Guide to His Works. Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
  3. ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Straube, Karl - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-30.


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