1919 in Germany
Event activities in the year 1919 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- President - vacant, Friedrich Ebert
- Chancellor - Friedrich Ebert , Philipp Scheidemann, Gustav Bauer
Events
- 5–15 January – Spartacist uprising
- 19 January – German federal election, 1919
- 11 February - German presidential election, 1919
- 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
- 29 March – University of Hamburg is established.
- 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
- 28 June – The Weimar Republic is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
- 12 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.
Undated
- Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
- Forbo Movement Systems, a manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts is founded.
- Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.
Births
- 29 January – Konrad Hesse, German judge
- 6 March – Michael Karkoc, German war criminal
- 27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian
- 3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt
- 6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor
- 23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress
- 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist
- 16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician
- 19 June - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano
- 7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist
- 8 July – Walter Scheel, German politician
- 29 July – Kunigunde Bachl, German physician and politician
- 31 August – Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic
- 30 August – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director
- 5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor
- 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director
- 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer
- 3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist
- 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician
- 6 November – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter and Catholic martyr
- 9 November – John Herberger, German football player and coach
- 10 November – Kurt Schmücker, German politician
- 14 November – Lisa Otto, German soprano
- 30 November – Detlef Kraus, German pianist
- 31 December – Artur Fischer, German inventor
Deaths
- 4 January – Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 15 January – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician
- 15 January – Karl Liebknecht, German politician
- 26 January – Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran
- 28 January – Franz Mehring, German politician
- 21 February:
- * Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic
- * Louis Tuaillon, German sculptor
- 24 March – Franz Metzner, German sculptor
- 25 March – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor
- 28 May – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist
- 7 June – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral
- 2 July – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor
- 15 July – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist
- 19 July – Walter Brack, German swimmer
- 2 August:
- * Christoph Blumhardt, German theologian
- * Otto Kissenberth, German World War I flying ace
- * Johann von Dallwitz, German politician
- 9 August – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician
- 24 August – Friedrich Naumann, German politician
- 1 October – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess
- 7 November – Hugo Haase, German politician
- 11 November – Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
- 29 November – Fritz Schaper, German sculptor