1919 in Germany

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* 1920s
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See also:| Other events of 1919
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Events in the year 1919 in Germany.

## Incumbents[edit]

### National level[edit]

* President \- vacant, Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) (from 11 February)

* Chancellor \- Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) ("Head of Government") (to 11 February), Philipp Scheidemann (Social Democrats) (to 20 June), Gustav Bauer (Social Democrats) (from 21 June)

## Events[edit]

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* 5–15 January – Spartacist uprising
* 19 January – German federal election, 1919
* 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
* 29 March – University of Hamburg is established.
* 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
* 28 June – The Weimar Republic is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
* 12 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.[1]

### Undated[edit]

* Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
* Forbo Movement Systems, a manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts is founded.[2]
* Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.

## Births[edit]

* 29 January – Konrad Hesse, German judge (died 2005)
* 6 March – Michael Karkoc, German war criminal (died 2019)
* 27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian (died 2019)
* 3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt (died 2010)
* 6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died 2010)
* 23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress (died 2021)
* 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist (died 2023)
* 16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician (died 1996)
* 19 June \- Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010)
* 7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (died 2010)
* 8 July – Walter Scheel, German politician (died 2016)
* 29 July – Kunigunde Bachl, German physician and politician (died 1994)
* 31 August – Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic (died 2018)
* 30 August – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (died 2010)
* 5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died 1945)
* 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999)
* 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017)
* 3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist (died 2020)
* 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician (died 2008)
* 6 November – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter and Catholic martyr (died 1943)[3]
* 9 November – John Herberger, German football player and coach (died 2002)
* 10 November – Kurt Schmücker, German politician (died 1996)
* 14 November – Lisa Otto, German soprano (died 2013)
* 30 November – Detlef Kraus, German pianist (died 2008)
* 31 December – Artur Fischer, German inventor (died 2016)

## Deaths[edit]

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* 4 January – Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1843)
* 15 January – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (born 1871)
* 15 January – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
* 26 January – Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran (born 1888)
* 28 January – Franz Mehring, German politician (born 1846)
* 21 February:
* Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic (born 1867)
* Louis Tuaillon, German sculptor (born 1862)
* 24 March – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (born 1870)
* 25 March – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (born 1881)
* 28 May – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist (born 1845)
* 7 June – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (born 1853)
* 2 July – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor (born 1848)
* 15 July – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1852)
* 19 July – Walter Brack, German swimmer (born 1880)
* 2 August:
* Christoph Blumhardt, German theologian (born 1842)
* Otto Kissenberth, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
* Johann von Dallwitz, German politician (born 1855)
* 9 August – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician (born 1834)
* 24 August – Friedrich Naumann, German politician (born 1860)
* 1 October – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
* 7 November – Hugo Haase, German politician (born 1863)
* 11 November – Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1851)
* 29 November – Fritz Schaper, German sculptor (born 1841)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913–1919".
2. ^ www.forbo-siegling.com Forbo-Siegling
3. ^ Jakob Knab: Die innere Vollendung der Person. Christoph Probst. In: Detlef Bald, Jakob Knab (Hrsg.): Die Stärkeren im Geiste. Zum christlichen Widerstand der Weißen Rose. Essen 2012. (in German)

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