1954_in_Germany Knowpia

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See also:	Other events of 1954; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events in the year 1954 in Germany.

Incumbents edit

President – Theodor Heuss
Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events edit

18 to 29 June - 4th Berlin International Film Festival
4 July - Germany wins in 1954 FIFA World Cup Final
17 October - East German general election, 1954
Date unknown - Wittig reaction was discovered by Georg Wittig.
Date unknown - The Angle grinder is invented by German company Ackermann + Schmitt (FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH).
Date unknown - The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.

Births edit

4 January - Birgit Havenstein, German composer
16 January - Wolfgang Schmidt, German track and field athlete
19 January
- Katharina Thalbach, German actress
- Joachim Deckarm, German handball player
21 January - Thomas de Maizière, German politician
7 February - Dieter Bohlen, songwriter, producer, singer and television personality
10 February - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
19 February - Reiner Haseloff, German politician
26 February - Prince Ernst August of Hanover, German head of the deposed royal House of Hanover
1 March - Volker Wieker, German chief of staff of the Bundeswehr
6 March - Harald Schumacher, German football player
26 March
- Jutta Speidel, German actress
- Udo Di Fabio, German judge
1 April - Dieter Müller, German football player
9 April - Arnold Stadler, German writer
16 April - Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German author (died 2023)
19 April - Ingrid Peters, German singer
20 April
- Gero von Boehm, German journalist
- Martin Stratmann, German electrochemist and materials scientist
21 April - Sabine Engel, German discus thrower
1 May - Eckart Diesch, German sailor
24 May - Rainald Goetz, German author, playwright and essayist
8 June - Jochen Schümann, German sailor
10 June - Ute Frevert, German historian
13 June - Heiner Koch, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
20 June - Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer and mathematician
3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany^[1]
25 July - Jürgen Trittin, German politician
28 July - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
14 August - Berthold Albrecht, German entrepreneur (died 2012)
11 October - Sascha Hehn, German actor
12 October - Norbert Klaar, German sport shooter
3 November - Siegfried Mauser, German pianist
25 November - Rudolf Mellinghoff, German judge
14 December - Eva Mattes, German actress
24 December - Lorenz Caffier, German politician