1981 in Germany

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Events in the year 1981 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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* President — Karl Carstens
* Chancellor — Helmut Schmidt

## Events

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* 13 - 24 February - 31st Berlin International Film Festival
* 28 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
* 14 June - East German general election, 1981[1]
* 1 August — Launch of the MK2 Volkswagen Polo, which makes use of a larger estate-like bodyshell, although it is still marketed as a hatchback.[2]
* 23 September — Launch of the new Opel Ascona, which for the first time is available with a hatchback and front-wheel drive, as well as a new range of engines.
* 29 October — Raiders of the Lost Ark in movie theaters in Germany.
* December — The Volkswagen Polo and Opel Ascona miss out on the European Car of the Year award, which instead goes to the Renault 9 from France.
* Date unknown - Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt was founded, although it was not opened to the public until 1991.[3]

### Science

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* Date unknown - German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of chromium-54 to produce 5 atoms of the isotope bohrium-262

## Births

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* January 21 — Dany Heatley, hockey player
* February 23 — Jan Böhmermann, television presenter
* March 8 - Timo Boll, table tennis player
* March 11 - Matthias Schweighöfer, actor
* March 12 - Friedrich Mücke, German actor
* April 26 - Teresa Weißbach, German actress
* April 27 — Sandy Mölling, pop singer
* May 15 - Ben, German singer
* May 21 - Maximilian Mutzke, drummer and singer
* June 3 - Timur Tekkal, rugby player
* June 12 - Nora Tschirner, German actress
* July 21 — Stefan Schumacher, cyclist
* August 4 - Florian Silbereisen, singer
* August 18 - Jan Frodeno, triathlete
* August 22 - Christina Obergföll, athlete
* August 30 - André Niklaus, athlete
* September 7 - Hannah Herzsprung, actress
* October 2 - Ronald Rauhe, canoeist

## Deaths

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* 8 January — Mortimer von Kessel, Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
* February 22 - Curtis Bernhardt, film director (born 1899)
* March 5 – Gertraud Winkelvoss, German neo-Nazi politician (born 1917)[4]
* March 7 - Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (born 1908)
* April 4 — Carl Ludwig Siegel, mathematician (born 1896)
* April 20 — Hans Söhnker, actor (born 1903)
* May 9 — Fritz Umgelter, television director, writer and film director (born 1922)
* May 13 - Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician (born 1895)
* May 18 - Eleonore Baur, German Nazi, only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (born 1885)
* June 4 - Fritz Steuben, German author (born 1898)
* June 16 - Julius Ebbinghaus, German philosopher (born 1885)
* July 5 — Helmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer (born 1916)
* July 19 - Karl Steinhoff, German politician (born 1892)
* August 23 - Rolf Herricht, German actor and comedian (born 1927)
* October 29 - Carl Joseph Leiprecht, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1903)
* November 22 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochem (born 1900)
* December 31 — Gunther Krappe, Wehrmacht officer (born 1893)

## See also

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* 1981 in German television

## References

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1. ^ Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe: Fourth Edition. Hoover Press. ISBN 978-0-8179-7693-4.
2. ^ "Vw: polo history". Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2008.
3. ^ "Geschichte". www.mmk.art. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
4. ^ Schumacher, Martin (2006). Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972 [The People's Representation 1946-1972] (PDF) (in German). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties. p. 1376.

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