1928 in Germany

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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)
16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman (d. 2024)
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 (d. 2021)^[1]
8 April
- Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024)
- 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)
29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)^[3]
9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)^[4]
4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024)
21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022)
23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician^[5]
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 (d. 2024)
28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian (d. 2024)
5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)^[6]
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)^[7]
- Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851)^[8]
8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857)^[9]
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)^[10]
30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)^[11]
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.
^ Heinz Wolff obituary
^ 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.

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[1] Millington, Barry (26 April 2021). "Christa Ludwig obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2021.

[2] "Hardy Krüger obituary". The Guardian. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023.

[3] Heinz Wolff obituary

[4] ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben (in German)

[5] Kenneth L. Adelman (1989). East-West Relations in the 1990s - Politics and Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Roundtable Conference. Springer Netherlands. p. 140.

[6] "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.

[7] "Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank's friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93". The Guardian. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

[8] "Biografie Bernhard III.(German)". Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

[9] Daintith, John (1994). Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Bristol Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub. p. 195. ISBN 9780750302876.

[10] Francis Dunlop (1991). Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler. Claridge Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-870626-71-2.

[11] "Wilhelm Wien - Facts". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

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