1929 in Germany
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Events in the year 1929 in Germany.
Incumbents
[edit]National level
[edit]- President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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, dramatist (died 1995)[3]
- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Lee, Stephen (1996). Weimar and Nazi Germany. London: Heinemann. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0-435-30920-X.
- ^ Gilbert, Martin (1998). A History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-71393-4.
- ^ Kalb, Jonathan (2001). The theater of Heiner Müller. New York: Limelight Editions. p. 1. ISBN 9780879109653.
- ^ "John C. Polanyi – Biography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ Klaus Marxen; Gerhard Werle (2004). Strafjustiz und DDR-Unrecht: Spionage. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-89949-080-0.
- ^ Christa Wolf obituary, Kate Webb, The Guardian, 1 December 2011
- ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 19 May 1973. p. 38.
- ^ Donahue, Patrick (5 October 2007). "German Writer, Chronicler Walter Kempowski Dies at Age 78". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2007.
- ^ Grimes, William. "Ralph Dahrendorf, Sociologist, Dies at 80 ", The New York Times, 22 June 2009. Accessed 10 October 2009.
- ^ "Falleció Pedro Trebbau, reconocido zoólogo venezolano de origen alemán". El Nacional (in Spanish). 16 January 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ Long, Brian (2015). Mercedes-Benz SLK R171 series : 2004-2011. Dorcester, England: Veloce Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 9781845846534.
- ^ Warrack, John (1996). The concise Oxford dictionary of opera. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 9780192800282.
- ^ Magill, Frank (1990). Great lives from history. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press. p. 332. ISBN 9780893565664.
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