1930 in Germany

Events in the year 1930 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

State level

Minister-President of Anhalt - Heinrich Deist
President of the Republic of Baden - Franz Josef Wittemann
Minister-President of Bavaria - Heinrich Held
Minister-President of the Republic of Brunswick - Heinrich Jasper then Werner Küchenthal
President of Hesse - Bernhard Adelung
Chairman of Lippe - Heinrich Drake
Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Karl Eschenburg
Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
Prime Minister of the Republic of Oldenburg - Eugen von Finckh then Friedrich Cassebohm
Minister-President of the Free State of Prussia - Otto Braun
Minister-President of Saxony - Wilhelm Bünger then Walther Schieck
State Councillor of Schaumburg-Lippe - Heinrich Lorenz
Minister-President of Thuringia - Erwin Baum
President of the Free People's State of Württemberg - Eugen Bolz

Cities

Mayor of Berlin - Arthur Scholtz
Mayor of Bremen -
Mayor of Hamburg - Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Roß
Mayor of Lübeck - Paul Löwigt

Events

23 January - The Nazi Party gains its first minister as Wilhelm Frick becomes Minister of the Interior and Education in Thuringia as part of a right-wing coalition administration.
27 March - The government of Hermann Müller collapses.
30 March - A right of centre minority government takes office under Heinrich Brüning.
22 June - The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of Saxony
30 June - The French Army withdraws its troops from the Rhineland.
16 July - The government invokes Presidential Decree in order to force through its economic reforms.
18 July - The Social Democratic Party of Germany force through a vote against the rule by decree resulting in the dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections.
July - The German State Party is formed by a merger of the German Democratic Party and the Young German Order.
13 August - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin is established.
14 September - The federal election sees the SPD remain as the biggest party but with the Nazis jumping into second place. Smaller gains are enjoyed by the Communist Party of Germany, the Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party and the Centre Party whilst the main losers are the German National People's Party and the German People's Party.

Arts

23 February - Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.
Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt Weill's Der Jasager, Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen.
Fritz Reck-Malleczewen's comedy novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo is published.Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred Rosenberg, publishes its first issue.

Communications

12 September - Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.

Science

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is won by Hans Fischer.
The IG Farben Building, the headquarters of the chemical company IG Farben, is completed in Frankfurt.

Sport

4–8 June - Albert Leidmann takes silver in the Light-Heavyweight division at the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
12 June - Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey by disqualification in The Bronx to win the vacant New York State Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association World Heavyweight Championships. Schmeling is the first German World Heavyweight Champion under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
13–27 July - The 3rd Chess Olympiad is held in Hamburg with the hosts finishing third.
Hertha BSC are crowned German football champions after defeating Holstein Kiel in the final.
The 1930 European Figure Skating Championships are held in Berlin.

Transport

22 January - struck a rock off Ushuia, Chile and sank with the loss of her captain.
26 July - The cargo schooner Nobiskrug is launched from Rendsburg harbour.
5 October - The Junkers Ju 52 makes its maiden flight.
The airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
The luxury car Mercedes-Benz 770 begins production.

Births

2 January - Gerhard Geise, mathematician
4 January - Christoph Albrecht, organist
9 January
*Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist
*Carl-Ludwig Wagner, CDU politician
11 January - Hartmut Gründler, protester who committed self-immolation
12 January - Klaus Scholder, ecclesiastical historian
21 January - Günter Lamprecht, actor
26 January - Reinhart Hummel, theologian
28 January - Kurt Biedenkopf, CDU politician
30 January
* Alfred Herrhausen, banker
* Egon Klepsch, German politician
31 January - Evelyn Richter, German art photographer
8 February
*Erich Böhme, journalist and broadcaster
* Hans Grauert, mathematician
18 February - Gerd Aretz, artist
21 February - Gerhard Scherhorn, economist
23 February - Ignaz Kiechle, CSU politician
3 March
* Heiner Geißler, CDU politician
* Hans Häckermann, German actor
8 March - Almuth Lütkenhaus, sculptor
10 March - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist
11 March - August von Finck Jr., banker
13 March - Günther Uecker, artist
14 March
* Helga Feddersen, entertainer
* Dieter Schnebel, composer
3 April - Helmut Kohl, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany
7 April - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
8 April - Hans Jörg Stetter, mathematician
11 April - Walter Krüger, athlete
12 April - Gustav Scholz, German boxer
14 April - Martin Adolf Bormann, priest, son of Martin Bormann and godson of Adolf Hitler
21 April - Eva Probst, actress
25 April - Peter Schulz, SPD politician
28 April - Jürgen Ahrend, organ builder
29 April - Claus Ogerman, arranger and orchestrator
6 May - Karl-Heinz Kammerling, academic teacher of pianists
7 May - Horst Bienek, novelist
17 May - Alfons Lütke-Westhues, equestrian
29 May
* Burkhard Hirsch, FDP politician
* Ekkehard Schall, actor/director
3 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, astronomer
5 June
* Ursula Lehr, politician
* Carl Otto Lenz, lawyer and CDU politician
8 June - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate
9 June - Erich Häusser, lawyer and judge
10 June - Theo Sommer, newspaper editor
13 June - Gotthard Graubner, painter
15 June - Christine Görner, actress and opera singer
22 June - Reinhold Remmert, mathematician
26 June - Wolfgang Schwanitz, head of the Stasi
27 June - Volker Vogeler, film director
30 June - Karl-Heinz Holze, footballer
6 July - Herbert Erhardt, footballer
14 July - Horst Rittel, design theorist
16 July - Horst Rittner, chess player
18 July - Siegfried Kurz, conductor and composer
20 July - Heinz Kubsch, footballer
23 July - Ingrid Hartmann, sprint canoer
28 July - Hans Schröder, sculptor and painter
30 July - Helmut Kirchmeyer, musicologist
4 August - Götz Friedrich, opera and theatre director
11 August - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
16 August - Wolfgang Völz, actor
25 August - Rainer Zepperitz, double bassist
8 September - Mario Adorf, actor
19 September - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, judge
20 September - Adolf Endler, author
21 September — Fred Herzog, German photographer
24 September - Horst Sachtleben, actor
26 September - Fritz Wunderlich, opera singer
5 October - Reinhard Selten, German economist
11 October - Harry Glaß, German ski jumper
17 October
* Freimut Börngen, German astronomer
* Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, German historian
25 October - John Sprinzel, racing driver
1 November - Edgar Basel, German boxer
5 November - Hans Mommsen and Wolfgang Mommsen, German historians and twin brothers
20 November - Rudi Felgenheier, German motorcycle racer
22 November - Ferdinand von Bismarck, Fürst von Bismarck
26 November - Berthold Leibinger, engineer and entrepreneur
27 November - Reinhard Glemnitz, actor
30 November - Eberhard Eimler, general
1 December - Joachim Hoffmann, historian
4 December - Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer
6 December - Rolf Hoppe, film actor
9 December - Carl-August Fleischhauer, judge
10 December - Avraham Ahituv, German-born Israeli intelligence chief
13 December - Nathan Zach, German-born Israeli poet
15 December - Günter Siebert, German football player, executive
17 December
* Erhard Geißler, biologist
* Armin Mueller-Stahl, film actor
19 December - Georg Stollenwerk, footballer
21 December - Wolfgang Pietzsch, chess grand master
26 December - Wilferd Madelung, scholar of Islam
28 December - Franzl Lang, yodeller

Deaths

3 January - Guglielmo Plüschow, photographer
14 January - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, civil servant
24 January - Adolf Kneser, mathematician
5 February - Friedrich von Duhn, classical scholar
9 February - Augustinus Bludau, Bishop of Ermland
11 February - Franz Winter, German archaeologist
18 February - Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician
21 February - Heinrich Kroll, German fighter ace
23 February - Horst Wessel, Sturmabteilung member and Nazi Party "martyr"
24 February - Hermann von Ihering, zoologist
6 March - Alfred von Tirpitz, Admiral and founder of the German Imperial Navy
10 March - Paul von Breitenbach, railway planner
31 March
* Emil Krebs, sinologist
* Ludwig Schüler, Mayor of Marburg
1 April - Cosima Wagner, founder of the Bayreuth Festival
19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster, surgeon
30 April - Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician
29 May - Ludwig Rehn, surgeon
7 June - Julius Smend, theologian
10 June - Adolf von Harnack, theologian
8 July - Gustav Weigand, linguist
29 July
* Theodor Axenfeld, ophthalmologist
* Alexander von Fielitz, composer
4 August - Siegfried Wagner, composer and conductor
8 August - Walther Reinhardt, Army officer
10 September - Eugen Diederichs, publisher
20 September - Moritz Pasch, mathematician
24 September - Otto Mueller, painter
28 September - Prince Leopold of Bavaria, nobleman and Field Marshal
10 October - Adolf Engler, botanist
27 October - Alexander Baerwald, architect
11 November - Paul Hensel, philosopher
17 November - Hans Kniep, botanist
11 December - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Prussian Army general
30 November - Max Skladanowsky, German German inventor and early filmmaker
15 December - Johannes Hoffmann, SPD Minister-President of Bavaria
16 December - Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley, painter
19 December - Conrad Willgerodt, chemist
24 December - Eduard David, politician
25 December - Eugen Goldstein, physicist