1951 in Germany

Events in the year 1951 in West Germany and East Germany.

1951 in West Germany

1949  • 1950  • 1951  • 1952  • 1953

Decades: 1940s  • 1950s  • 1960s

See also: History of Germany (1945–1990)  • Timeline of German history#20th century  • List of years in Germany#20th century

1951 in East Germany

1949  • 1950  • 1951  • 1952  • 1953

Decades: 1940s  • 1950s  • 1960s

See also: History of East Germany  • History of Germany (1945–1990)  • Timeline of German history#20th century  • List of years in Germany#20th century

Incumbents

West Germany

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

East Germany

• Head of State – Wilhelm Pieck
• Head of Government – Otto Grotewohl

Events

• April 29 - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1951
• June 5 - East German referendum, 1951
• June 6 to 17 - 1st Berlin International Film Festival

Births

• 1 January - Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver
• 4 January - Richard Oetker, German businessman
• 8 January - Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer
• 28 January - Karl Honz, German athlete
• 16 February - Franz-Josef Bode, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück
• 4 March - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
• 24 March - Monika Stolz, German politician
• 30 March - Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer
• 1 April - Johanna Wanka, German politician
• 9 April - Monika Piel, German journalist
• 17 April - Horst Hrubesch, German football player
• 18 May - Angela Voigt, German long jumper (died 2013)
• 26 June - Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
• 28 June - Rolf Milser, German weightlifter
• 13 July - Sonia Seymour Mikich, German journalist
• 21 July - Eberhard Gienger, German politician and gymnast
• 26 July - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
• 31 July - Martin Mosebach, German writer
• 3 August - Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
• 5 August - Franz-Peter Hofmeister, German athlete
• 15 August - Herfried Münkler, German political scientist
• 5 September - Paul Breitner, German football player
• 22 September - Wolfgang Petry, German singer
• 24 September - Heinz Hoenig, German actor
• 29 September - Jörg Diesch, German sailor
• 29 September- Jutta Ditfurth, German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician
• 5 October - Beate Heister, German businesswoman
• 20 October - Hans-Georg Aschenbach, German ski jumper
• 21 November - Thomas Roth, German journalist
• 4 December - Reinhard Eiben, German canoeist
• 14 December -Mike Krüger, German comedian
• 18 December - Volker Bouffier, German politician

Deaths

• January 22 - Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (born 1872)
• January 30 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile pioneer (born 1875)
• February 3 - August Horch German engineer and automobile pioneer, (born 1868)
• February 8 - Fritz Thyssen, German entrepreneur (born 1873)
• March 12 - Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman, politician and publisher (born 1865)
• April 26 - Gerda Müller, German actress (born 1894)
• April 26 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (born 1868)
• July 1 — Gustav Höhne, Wehrmacht general and Knight's Cross recipient (born 1893)
• July 2 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (born 1875)
• July 20 - Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (born 1882)
• August 4 - Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (born 1882)
• August 30 - Erich Emminger, German politician (born 1880)
• October 6 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist (born 1884)
• October 17 - Johann Becker, German politician (born 1869)
• October 20 - Karl Jarres, German politician (born 1874)
• December 4 - Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician and glaciologist (born 1862)

References