1929 in Germany

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Events in the year 1929 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### National level

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* President – Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)
* Chancellor – Hermann Müller (Social Democrats)

## Events

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* 8-29 August – Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo-Los Angeles).
* 31 August – The Young Plan for settling German World War I reparations is finalized.
* October – The Wall Street crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism.[1] The number of unemployed reaches three million.[2]
* Alfred Döblin's modernist novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is published.
* Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is first published in book format
* German car company Opel is taken over by American company General Motors. General Motors assumed full control in 1931.
* Date unknown – Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with German physician Werner Forssmann in 1929, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it.
* Date unknown – Styrene-butadiene was developed by German chemist Walter Bock.
* Date unknown: Steroid hormone Estrogen was isolated and purified estrone, the first estrogen to be discovered by Adolf Butenandt
* Date unknown: Rudolf Hell receives a patent for the Hellschreiber, an early fax machine.

## Births

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* 3 January – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and orchestra conductor
* 4 January – Günter Schabowski, German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (died 2015)
* 5 January – Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
* 9 January – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (died 1995)[3]
* 22 January – Fritz Lobinger, German Roman Catholic prelate (died 2025 in South Africa)
* 29 January – John Polanyi, German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate[4]
* 31 January – Rudolf Mössbauer, nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (died 2011)
* 4 February – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (died 2009)
* 18 February – Günther Schramm, German actor
* 25 February -Irmgard Oepen, German physician and medical journalist (died 2018)
* 9 March – Werner Grossmann, East German deputy leader of the Ministry for State Security[5]
* 18 March – Christa Wolf, literary critic, novelist, and essayist (died 2011)[6]
* 30 March -Peter Kuiper, German (died 2007)
* 2 April – Hans Koschnick, German politician (died 2016)
* 3 April – Klaus Hemmerle, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1994)
* 8 April – Hans Korte, German actor (died 2016)
* 17 April – James Last, born Hans Last, bandleader (died 2015 in the United States)[7]
* 29 April – Walter Kempowski, German writer (died 2007)[8]
* 30 April – Klausjürgen Wussow, German actor (died 2007)
* 1 May – Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and political scientist (died 2009)[9]
* 8 May – Günther Wyschofsky, East German politician
* 10 May – Gerhard Müller, German Lutheran theologian (died 2024)
* 16 May – Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
* 20 May – Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (died 2021)[10]
* 26 May – Alfred Kunz, German-Canadian composer (died 2019)
* 4 June – Günter Strack, actor (died 1999)
* 10 June – Harald Juhnke, comedian (died 2005)
* 12 June
* Anne Frank, born Annelies Frank, Jewish diarist (died 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
* Eva Pflug, actress (died 2008)
* 18 June
* Jörg Faerber, conductor (died 2022)
* Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
* 29 June – Eberhard Jäckel, historian (died 2017)
* 30 June – Othmar Mága, German conductor
* 22 July – Percy Borucki, German fencer
* 2 August – Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist (died 2025)
* 16 August – Helmut Rahn, German football player (died 2003)
* 20 August – Lorenz Weinrich, German historian
* 8 September – Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor
* 9 September – Ruth Pfau, German physician (died 2017)
* 14 September – Hans Clarin, German actor (died 2005)
* 19 September – Heiner Carow, German film director and screenwriter (died 1997)
* 20 September – Hans von Borsody (died 2013)
* 20 October – Saschko Gawriloff, German violinist
* 25 October – Peter Rühmkorf, writer (died 2008)
* 11 November – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer (died 2022)
* 12 November – Michael Ende, writer (died 1995)
* 23 November
* Günter Gaus, German journalist, commentator and diplomat (died 2004)
* Sigrid Kehl, German opera singer (died 2024)
* 27 November – Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate (died 2018)
* 29 November – Xaver Unsinn ice hockey player (died 2012)
* 1 December – Karl Otto Pöhl, economist (died 2014)
* 14 December – Kurt Wünsche, politician

## Deaths

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* 28 January – Hans von Plessen, general (born 1841)
* 29 January – Hans Prutz, historian (born 1843)
* 1 March
* Wilhelm von Bode, German art historian (born 1845)
* Ernst Oppler, painter (born 1867)
* 4 April – Karl Benz, automotive pioneer (born 1844)[11]
* 20 April – Prince Henry of Prussia, German nobleman and naval officer (born 1862)
* 13 May – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer (born 1878)
* 18 June – Hermann Wagner, geographer (born 1840)
* 13 May – Arthur Scherbius, electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor (born 1878)
* 22 June – Alfred Brunswig, philosopher (born 1877)
* 5 July – Hans Meyer, geologist (born 1858)
* 14 July – Hans Delbrück, historian (born 1848)
* 15 July – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1874)[12]
* 3 October – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate (born 1878)
* 8 October – Max Lehmann, historian (born 1845)
* 26 October – Aby Warburg, art historian (born 1866)
* 28 October – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor 1900-09 (born 1849)[13]
* 4 November – Karl von den Steinen, German explorer and physician (born 1855)
* 6 November – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor October–November 1918 (born 1867)
* 10 December – Franz Rosenzweig, theologian and philosopher (born 1886)
* 29 December – Wilhelm Maybach, automobile designer (born 1846)

## References

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1. ^ Lee, Stephen (1996). Weimar and Nazi Germany. London: Heinemann. pp. 38–39\. ISBN 0-435-30920-X.
2. ^ Gilbert, Martin (1998). A History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-71393-4.
3. ^ Kalb, Jonathan (2001). The theater of Heiner Müller. New York: Limelight Editions. p. 1\. ISBN 9780879109653.
4. ^ "John C. Polanyi – Biography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
5. ^ Klaus Marxen; Gerhard Werle (2004). Strafjustiz und DDR-Unrecht: Spionage. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-89949-080-0.
6. ^ Christa Wolf obituary, Kate Webb, The Guardian, 1 December 2011
7. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 19 May 1973. p. 38.
8. ^ Donahue, Patrick (5 October 2007). "German Writer, Chronicler Walter Kempowski Dies at Age 78". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
9. ^ Grimes, William. "Ralph Dahrendorf, Sociologist, Dies at 80 ", The New York Times, 22 June 2009. Accessed 10 October 2009.
10. ^ "Falleció Pedro Trebbau, reconocido zoólogo venezolano de origen alemán". El Nacional (in Spanish). 16 January 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
11. ^ Long, Brian (2015). Mercedes-Benz SLK R171 series : 2004-2011. Dorcester, England: Veloce Publishing. p. 14\. ISBN 9781845846534.
12. ^ Warrack, John (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of opera. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 234\. ISBN 9780192800282.
13. ^ Magill, Frank (1990). Great lives from history. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press. p. 332\. ISBN 9780893565664.

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