Events in the year 1953 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 March – 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident
- 12 April – Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded.
- 10 May – The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.[1]
- 16/17 June – Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
- 18 to 20 June – 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
- 7 July – 1953 Menzengraben mining accident
- 6 September – West German federal election, 1953
- 20 October – The Second Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.
- Date unknown – Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.
Births
- January 10 – Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete
- January 16 – Reinhard Jirgl, German writer
- January 22 – Jürgen Pommerenke, German football player
- January 24 – Ulrich Holbein, German writer
- January 31 – Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, German judge
- March 1 – Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower
- March 14 – Christian von Ditfurth, German historian
- March 24 – Mathias Richling, German comedian
- February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (died 1997)
- April 10 – Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
- May 11 – Thomas Middelhoff, German manager
- May 18 – Ute Kircheis-Wessel, German fencer
- June 20 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (died 2007)
- June 23 – Michael Eichberger, German judge
- July 23 – Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, German weightlifter
- July 26 – Felix Magath, German footballer and football trainer
- July 30 – Heribert Prantl, German journalist
- August 17 – Andreas Kirchner, German Winter sportsman (died 2010)
- August 17 – Herta Müller, German writer
- August 27 – Gabriele Haefs, translator.[2]
- August 29 – Rainer Pottel, German decathlete
- September 2 – Gerhard Thiele, German astronaut
- September 21 – Reinhard Marx, German cardinal of the Catholic Church
- November 7 – Ottfried Fischer, German actor
- November 16 – Brigitte Zypries, German politician
- October 1 – Klaus Wowereit, German politician
- October 10 – Martin Viessmann, German businessman
- October 15 – Günther Oettinger, German politician
- December 11 – Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist (died 2014)
- December 23 – Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (died 2022)
- December 26 – Henning Schmitz, German musician
- December 29
- Thomas Bach, 9th president of the IOC
- Matthias Platzeck, German politician
Deaths
- 28 January – Theophil Wurm, German leader in the German Protestant Church in the early twentieth century (born 1868)
- 20 January – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (born 1913)
- 24 February – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875)
- 28 March – Alfred Philippson, German geographer (born 1864)
- 2 April – Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (born 1885)
- 20 April – Erich Weinert, German writer (born 1890)
- 12 May – Fritz Mackensen, German painter (born 1866)
- 18 May – Rudolf Nadolny, German diplomat (born 1873)
- 21 May – Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician (born 1871)
- 31 July – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (born 1884)
- 13 August – Paul Kemp, German actor (born 1896)
- 15 August – Ludwig Prandtl, German engineer (born 1875)
- 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (born 1884)
- 29 September- Ernst Reuter, German politician (born 1889)
- 27 October — Eduard Künneke, German composer (born 1885)
References
- ^ Travel Guide, German Democratic Republic. Dresden: Zeit im Bild Publishing House. 1983. p. 89.
The town…was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1953 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of the death of…Karl Marx
- ^ Rottem, Øystein. “Ingvar Ambjørnsen”. In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
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