1953 in Germany

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Events in the year 1953 in Germany.

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

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.
• 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.
• 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)