1928 in Germany
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See also: | Other events of 1928 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
Events in the year 1928 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)
- 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)