1929 in Germany

Events in the year 1929 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President – Paul von Hindenburg
Chancellor – Hermann Müller

Events

8-29 August – Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean.
31 August – The Young Plan for settling German World War I reparations is finalized.
October – The Wall Street crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism. The number of unemployed reaches three million.
Alfred Döblin's modernist novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is published.
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is first published in book format
German car company Opel is taken over by American company General Motors. General Motors assumed full control in 1931.
Date unknown – Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with German physician Werner Forssmann in 1929, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it.
Date unknown – Styrene-butadiene was developed by German chemist Walter Bock.
Date unknown: Steroid hormone Estrogen was isolated and purified estrone, the first estrogen to be discovered by Adolf Butenandt
Date unknown: Rudolf Hell receives a patent for the Hellschreiber, an early fax machine.

Births

3 January – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and orchestra conductor
4 January – Günter Schabowski, German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
5 January – Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
9 January – Heiner Müller, German dramatist
22 January – Fritz Lobinger, German Roman Catholic prelate
29 January – John Polanyi, German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
31 January – Rudolf Mössbauer, nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
4 February – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist
18 February – Günther Schramm, German actor
25 February -Irmgard Oepen, German physician and medical journalist
9 March – Werner Grossmann, East German deputy leader of the Ministry for State Security
18 March – Christa Wolf, literary critic, novelist, and essayist
30 March -Peter Kuiper, German
2 April – Hans Koschnick, German politician
3 April – Klaus Hemmerle, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
8 April – Hans Korte, German actor
17 April – James Last, born Hans Last, bandleader
29 April – Walter Kempowski, German writer
30 April – Klausjürgen Wussow, German actor
1 May – Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and political scientist
8 May – Günther Wyschofsky, East German politician
10 May – Gerhard Müller, German Lutheran theologian
15 May – Willi Gundlach, German choral conductor and musicologist
16 May – Friedrich Nowottny, German journalist
20 May – Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist
26 May – Alfred Kunz, German-Canadian composer
4 June – Günter Strack, actor
10 June – Harald Juhnke, comedian
12 June
* Anne Frank, born Annelies Frank, Jewish diarist
*Eva Pflug, actress
18 June
* Jörg Faerber, conductor
* Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
29 June – Eberhard Jäckel, historian
30 June – Othmar Mága, German conductor
22 July – Percy Borucki, German fencer
2 August – Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist
16 August – Helmut Rahn, German footballer
20 August – Lorenz Weinrich, German historian
8 September – Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor
9 September – Ruth Pfau, German physician
14 September – Hans Clarin, German actor
19 September – Heiner Carow, German film director and screenwriter
20 September – Hans von Borsody
29 September – Rolf Kühn, German clarinetist and saxophonist.
20 October – Saschko Gawriloff, German violinist
25 October – Peter Rühmkorf, writer
11 November – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
12 November – Michael Ende, writer
23 November
* Günter Gaus, German journalist, commentator and diplomat
* Sigrid Kehl, German opera singer
27 November – Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate
29 November – Xaver Unsinn ice hockey player
1 December – Karl Otto Pöhl, economist
14 December – Kurt Wünsche, politician

Deaths

28 January – Hans von Plessen, general
29 January – Hans Prutz, historian
1 March
*Wilhelm von Bode, German art historian
*Ernst Oppler, painter
4 April – Karl Benz, automotive pioneer
20 April – Prince Henry of Prussia, German nobleman and naval officer
13 May – Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer
18 June – Hermann Wagner, geographer
13 May – Arthur Scherbius, electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor
22 June – Alfred Brunswig, philosopher
5 July – Hans Meyer, geologist
14 July – Hans Delbrück, historian
15 July – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, poet, dramatist and novelist
3 October – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate
8 October – Max Lehmann, historian
26 October – Aby Warburg, art historian
28 October – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor 1900-09
4 November – Karl von den Steinen, German explorer and physician
6 November – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor October–November 1918
10 December – Franz Rosenzweig, theologian and philosopher
29 December – Wilhelm Maybach, automobile designer