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* 6 January – [[Wilhelm Kuhweide]], German sailor |
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* 12 January – [[Brun-Otto Bryde]], German judge |
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* 14 January – [[Manfred Wolke]], German boxer |
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* 22 January – [[Wilhelm Genazino]], German author and journalist |
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* 24 January - [[Peter Struck]], German politician (died [[2012 in Germany|2012]]) |
* 24 January - [[Peter Struck]], German politician (died [[2012 in Germany|2012]]) |
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* 25 January - |
* 25 January - |
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** [[Dagmar Berghoff]], German journalist and television presenter |
** [[Dagmar Berghoff]], German journalist and television presenter |
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** [[Roy Black (singer)|Roy Black]], German actor and singer (died [[1991 in Germany|1991]]) |
** [[Roy Black (singer)|Roy Black]], German actor and singer (died [[1991 in Germany|1991]]) |
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* 12 February – [[Rainer Eppelmann]], German politician |
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* 22 February – [[Horst Köhler]], German politician, former [[President of Germany]] |
* 22 February – [[Horst Köhler]], German politician, former [[President of Germany]] |
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* 12 April |
* 12 April |
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**[[Lothar Kobluhn]], German footballplayer |
**[[Lothar Kobluhn]], German footballplayer |
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**[[Michael Otto (businessman)|Michael Otto]], German entrepreneur |
**[[Michael Otto (businessman)|Michael Otto]], German entrepreneur |
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* 11 February – [[Gerhard Glogowski]], German politician |
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* 13 February – [[Friedrich Christian Delius]], German writer |
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* 15 February – [[Elke Heidenreich]], German author and television presenter |
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* 21 February – [[Paul Kirchhof]], German judge |
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* 22 February – [[Horst Köhler]], German politician, former [[President of Germany]] |
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* 27 February – [[Klaus Köste]], German gymnast (died [[2012 in Germany|2012]]) |
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* 24 March – [[Marika Kilius]], German pair skater |
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* 12 April |
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**[[Lothar Kobluhn]], German football player |
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**[[Michael Otto (businessman)|Michael Otto]], German entrepreneur |
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* 19 April – [[Claus Theo Gärtner]], German actor |
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* 2 May – [[Manfred Schnelldorfer]], German figure skater |
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* 6 May – [[Wolfgang Reinhardt (athlete)|Wolfgang Reinhard]], German pole vaulter |
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* 10 May – [[Wolfgang Porsche]], German manager |
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* 18 May – [[Helmut Haussmann]], German politician |
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* 22 May – [[Gesine Schwan]], German politician |
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* 24 May – [[Gerd Gies]], German politician |
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* 26 June – [[Klaus von Klitzing]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate |
* 26 June – [[Klaus von Klitzing]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate |
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* 30 June – [[Hartmann von der Tann]], German journalist |
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* 30 June – [[Dieter Kottysch]], German boxer (died [[2017 in Germany|2017]]) |
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* 4 July – [[Conny Bauer|Konrad "Conny" Bauer]], German trombonist |
* 4 July – [[Conny Bauer|Konrad "Conny" Bauer]], German trombonist |
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* 6 July – [[Hans-Jürgen Papier]], German judge |
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* 25 July – [[Hans-Peter Kaul]], German judge (died [[2014 in Germany|2014]]) |
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* 25 July – [[Erika Steinbach]], German politician |
* 25 July – [[Erika Steinbach]], German politician |
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* 29 July – [[Michael Holm]], German singer |
* 29 July – [[Michael Holm]], German singer |
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* 29 July – [[Ingrid Krämer]], German diver |
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* 12 August – [[Herta Däubler-Gmelin]], politician |
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* 27 August – [[Wolfgang Nordwig]], German pole vaulter |
* 27 August – [[Wolfgang Nordwig]], German pole vaulter |
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* 7 September – [[Lena Valaitis]], German singer |
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* 16 September – [[Oskar Lafontaine]], German politician |
* 16 September – [[Oskar Lafontaine]], German politician |
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* 16 September – [[Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter]], German Lutheran bishop |
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* 25 September – [[Willi Entenmann]], footballer and coach (died [[2012 in Germany|2012]]) |
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* 27 September – [[Walter Riester]], German politician |
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* 28 September – [[Michael Herz (businessman)|Michael Herz]], German businessman |
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* 28 September – [[Ursula Werner]], German actress |
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* 30 September – [[Johann Deisenhofer]], German biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate |
* 30 September – [[Johann Deisenhofer]], German biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate |
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* 19 October – [[Axel Ullrich]], German biologist |
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* 20 October – [[Madeleine Schickedanz]], German entrepreneur |
* 20 October – [[Madeleine Schickedanz]], German entrepreneur |
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* 22 October – [[Wolfgang Thierse]], German politician |
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* 28 October – [[Cornelia Froboess]], German actress |
* 28 October – [[Cornelia Froboess]], German actress |
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* 20 November – [[Bernard Broermann]], German businessman |
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* 23 November – [[Günther Beckstein]], German politician |
* 23 November – [[Günther Beckstein]], German politician |
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* 8 December – [[Bodo Tümmler]], German Olympic middle-distance runner |
* 8 December – [[Bodo Tümmler]], German Olympic middle-distance runner |
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* 12 December – [[Renate Schmidt]], German politician |
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* 23 December – [[Queen Silvia of Sweden]] |
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* 25 December – [[Hanna Schygulla]], German actress |
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* 31 December – [[Wolfgang Gerhardt]], German politician |
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See also: | Other events of 1943 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
Events in the year 1943 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
Head of State
- Adolf Hitler (the Führer) (Nazi Party)
Events
- 18 January – World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
- 18 January – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
- 27 January – World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
- 29 January – German police arrest alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke.
- 29 January – Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds the late Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt controlling the Schutzstaffel Gestapo
- 2 February – World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
- 3 February – World War II: The Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (Dorchester) is struck by a German torpedo.
- 14 February – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia.
- 16 February – World War II: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
- 18 February – In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War" against the Allies.
- 18 February – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- 22 February – Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 28 February – Operation Gunnerside: 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork.
- 1 March – Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for Nazi Germany's Army.
- 13 March – Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
- 16 March – 19 March – World War II: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat wolfpack attack of the war.
- 22 March – World War II: The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German Dirlewanger Brigade in retaliation for an attack of a German convoy by Soviet partisans.
- 26 March – Adolf Hitler writes to Benito Mussolini that Russia is so weakened by the defence of Stalingrad that it cannot possibly be a serious menace.
- 13 April – World War II: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre.
- 6 May – World War II: Six U-boats are sunk after sinking 12 ships from Convoy ONS 5, regarded as the turning point in the North Atlantic U-boat war.
- 13 May – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 15 May – The Comintern is dissolved in Moscow.
- 16 May – World War II: Operation Chastise by RAF 617 Sqdn is carried out on German dams.
- 16 May – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 24 May – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes the chief medical officer of Auschwitz.
- 5 July – World War II: Battle of Kursk – The largest tank battle in history begins.
- 12 July – World War II – Battle of Prokhorovka: The Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight to a draw.
- 24 July – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.
- 27 July – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The continued British bombing of Hamburg, initiates a firestorm. The fire rages through the night into the morning of the 28th, causing the majority of Operation Gomorrah's deaths.
- 3 August – World War II: Operation Gomorrah closes, with an estimated 42,600 killed and 37,000 wounded; much of Hamburg is leveled.
- 23 August – The Battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.
- 24 August – World War II: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister of the Interior in Germany.
- 29 August – World War II: Germany dissolves the Danish government after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities (see Occupation of Denmark).
- 8 September – World War II: Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943: The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.
- 12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in Operation Eiche.
- 13 October – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
- 17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider, auxiliary cruiser Michel, was sunk off Japan by United States submarine Tarpon.[1]
- 22 October – World War II: The RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel.
- 15 November – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."
- 18 November – World War II: The Royal Air Force opens its bombing campaign against Berlin, with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.
- 23 November – The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed.
- 2 December – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causing numerous fatalities; the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths as well.
- 11 December – United States Army Air Corps raids a U-boat yard at Emden, losing 20 planes but shooting down 138 German fighters.
- 20 December – First flight of a true four-engined version of the troubled He 177A heavy bomber, as the Heinkel He 177 V102 prototype of the Heinkel He 177B series makes its maiden flight with four separate Daimler-Benz DB 603 engines at the Heinkel-Sud factory airfield in Schwechat.[2]
Births
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- 6 January – Wilhelm Kuhweide, German sailor
- 12 January – Brun-Otto Bryde, German judge
- 14 January – Manfred Wolke, German boxer
- 22 January – Wilhelm Genazino, German author and journalist
- 24 January - Peter Struck, German politician (died 2012)
- 25 January -
- Dagmar Berghoff, German journalist and television presenter
- Roy Black, German actor and singer (died 1991)
- 12 February – Rainer Eppelmann, German politician
- 22 February – Horst Köhler, German politician, former President of Germany
- 12 April
- Lothar Kobluhn, German footballplayer
- Michael Otto, German entrepreneur
- 11 February – Gerhard Glogowski, German politician
- 13 February – Friedrich Christian Delius, German writer
- 15 February – Elke Heidenreich, German author and television presenter
- 21 February – Paul Kirchhof, German judge
- 22 February – Horst Köhler, German politician, former President of Germany
- 27 February – Klaus Köste, German gymnast (died 2012)
- 24 March – Marika Kilius, German pair skater
- 12 April
- Lothar Kobluhn, German football player
- Michael Otto, German entrepreneur
- 19 April – Claus Theo Gärtner, German actor
- 2 May – Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
- 6 May – Wolfgang Reinhard, German pole vaulter
- 10 May – Wolfgang Porsche, German manager
- 18 May – Helmut Haussmann, German politician
- 22 May – Gesine Schwan, German politician
- 24 May – Gerd Gies, German politician
- 26 June – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 30 June – Hartmann von der Tann, German journalist
- 30 June – Dieter Kottysch, German boxer (died 2017)
- 4 July – Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist
- 6 July – Hans-Jürgen Papier, German judge
- 25 July – Hans-Peter Kaul, German judge (died 2014)
- 25 July – Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 29 July – Michael Holm, German singer
- 29 July – Ingrid Krämer, German diver
- 12 August – Herta Däubler-Gmelin, politician
- 27 August – Wolfgang Nordwig, German pole vaulter
- 7 September – Lena Valaitis, German singer
- 16 September – Oskar Lafontaine, German politician
- 16 September – Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter, German Lutheran bishop
- 25 September – Willi Entenmann, footballer and coach (died 2012)
- 27 September – Walter Riester, German politician
- 28 September – Michael Herz, German businessman
- 28 September – Ursula Werner, German actress
- 30 September – Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 19 October – Axel Ullrich, German biologist
- 20 October – Madeleine Schickedanz, German entrepreneur
- 22 October – Wolfgang Thierse, German politician
- 28 October – Cornelia Froboess, German actress
- 20 November – Bernard Broermann, German businessman
- 23 November – Günther Beckstein, German politician
- 8 December – Bodo Tümmler, German Olympic middle-distance runner
- 12 December – Renate Schmidt, German politician
- 23 December – Queen Silvia of Sweden
- 25 December – Hanna Schygulla, German actress
- 31 December – Wolfgang Gerhardt, German politician
Deaths
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- 15 January – George of Saxony, Crown prince of Saxony (born 1893)
- 13 January – Else Ury, German writer (born 1877)
- 14 February – David Hilbert, German mathematician (born 1862)
- 22 February – Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (executed by Nazis) (born 1918)
- 22 February – Sophie Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (executed by Nazis) (born 1921)
- 26 February – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official (born 1892)
- 10 March – Otto Modersohn, German painter (born 1865)
- 22 March – Hans Woellke, German short putter (born 1911)
- 13 April – Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor and choreographer (born 1888)
- 24 April – Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (born 1878)
- 15 May – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (born 1874)
- 31 May – Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo official
- 13 July – Luz Long, German long jump athlete (born 1913)
- 21 July – Theodor von Guérard, German jurist and politician (born 1863)
- 5 August – Liane Berkowitz, German resistance fighter of the Red Orchestra organisation (born 1923)
- 2 September – Wilhelm Geiger, German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages (born 1856)
- 16 September – Robert Schmidt, German politician (born 1864)
- 22 September – Heinrich Waentig, German politician (born 1870)
- 23 September – Theodor Wolff, German writer and journalist (born 1868)
- date unknown: Gottlob Walz, German diver (born 1881)
References
- ^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of World War II. Prentice-Hall. p. 276. ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
- ^ Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). Heinkel He 177 – 277 – 274. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. pp. 166–67. ISBN 1-85310-364-0.