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) (2nd term) to 12 June, then from 28 June Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (2nd term)

Events

May 20 - German federal election, 1928
May - October – Pressa held in Cologne
June 28 – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor
Date unknown: The Diels-Alder reaction was first described by German chemists Otto Diels and Kurt Alder.
Date unknown - Max Giese invented the concrete pump.

Births

January 11 – Harry Wüstenhagen, German actor (died 1999)
January 27 – Hans Modrow, German politician
February 20 – Friedrich Wetter, German cardinal of the Catholic Church
February 26 – Odo Marquard, German philosopher (died 2015)
March 9 – Franz Crass, German bass singer (died 2012)
March 12 – Paul Kuhn, German band leader (died 2013)
March 21 – Peter Hacks, German playwright and author (died 2003)
March 27 – Lorenz Dittmann, German art historian (died 2018)
March 28 – Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician (died 2014)
April 8 – Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (died 2000)
April 12 – Hardy Krüger, German actor
April 15 – Hanna-Renate Laurien, German politician (died 2010)
April 20 – Hans Werner Kettenbach, writer (died 2018)
April 21 – Georg Kronawitter, German politician (died 2018)
April 28 – Jürgen Frohriep, German actor (died 1993)
May 4 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (died 1961)
May 8 – Manfred Gerlach, German politician (died 2011)
June 22 – Hans F. Zacher, German jurist (died 2015)
June 23 – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
June 23 – Eduard Gaugler, German economist (died 2014)
June 24 – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
July 1 – Gunnar Möller, German actor (died 2017)
July 4 – Jürgen Moser, German mathematician (died 1999)
July 9 – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (died 2014)
July 26 – Philipp-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German nobleman (died 2003)
August 9 – Gerd Ruge, German journalist
August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (died 2007)
August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
August 26 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor (died 2013)
August 28 – Karl Michael Vogler, German actor (died 2009)
September 7 – Walter Rudi Wand, German judge (died 1985)
September 9 – Fritz Herkenrath, German football goalkeeper (died 2016)
September 19 – Wolfram Siebeck, German author and journalist (died 2016)
September 28 – Hans Geister, German athlete (died 2012)
September 29 – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (died 2001)
October 2 – Oswalt Kolle, German sex educator Oswalt Kolle (died 2010)
October 14 – Edith Hancke, German film actress (died 2015)
November 9 – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (died 1995)
November 12 – Werner Klumpp, German politician
November 12 – Manfred Holl, pioneer in Numerical Meteorology (died 2918)

Deaths

February 21 - Hans von Koester, German admiral (born 1844)
February 27 - Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)
March 17 - Theodor Zincke, German chemist (born 1843)
May 26 - Rudolf Heinze, German jurist and politician (born 1865)
May 27 - Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, German mathematician (born 1853)
June 17 - Karl Pohlig, German conductor (born 1864)
August 9 - Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1857)
August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
September 8 - Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, German diplomat and politician (born 1869)
November 19 - John-Baptist Hoffmann, German Jesuit priest (born 1857)
November 19 - Franz Stuhlmann, German explorer, naturalist and zoologist (born 1863)
November 21 - Hermann Sudermann, German dramatist (born 1857)
November 26 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)
December 1 - Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, German painter (born 1855)

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