1951 in Germany
Events in the year 1951 in West Germany and East Germany.
Incumbents
West Germany
East Germany
Events
- 29 April - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1951
- 5 June - East German referendum, 1951
- 6 to 17 June - 1st Berlin International Film Festival
- unknown date - In Munich, a collection of mementos and personal papers belonging to Adolf Hitler is turned over to Bayerische Landesbank, for authentication and eventual sale. Among the documents are his appointment as Chancellor signed by President Paul von Hindenburg, his Austrian passport, as well as an assortment of swastika insignia pins and medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 is made for the collection.
Births
- 1 January - Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver
- 4 January - Richard Oetker, German businessman
- 8 January - Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer
- 28 January - Karl Honz, German athlete
- 16 February - Franz-Josef Hermann Bode, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück
- 24 February - Gabriele Schnaut, German opera singer
- 4 March - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
- 24 March - Monika Stolz, German politician
- 30 March - Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer
- 1 April - Johanna Wanka, German politician
- 9 April - Monika Piel, German journalist
- 17 April - Horst Hrubesch, German football player
- 18 May - Angela Voigt, German long jumper
- 26 June - Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
- 28 June - Rolf Milser, German weightlifter
- 13 July - Sonia Seymour Mikich, German journalist
- 21 July - Eberhard Gienger, German politician and gymnast
- 26 July - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
- 31 July - Martin Mosebach, German writer
- 3 August - Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
- 5 August - Franz-Peter Hofmeister, German athlete
- 15 August - Herfried Münkler, German political scientist
- 5 September - Paul Breitner, German football player
- 22 September - Wolfgang Petry, German singer
- 24 September - Heinz Hoenig, German actor
- 29 September - Jörg Diesch, German sailor
- 29 September- Jutta Ditfurth, German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician
- 5 October - Beate Heister, German businesswoman
- 20 October - Hans-Georg Aschenbach, German ski jumper
- 21 November - Thomas Roth, German journalist
- 2 December - Roman Bunka, German musician
- 4 December - Reinhard Eiben, German canoeist
- 14 December - Mike Krüger, German comedian
- 18 December - Volker Bouffier, German politician
Deaths
- 22 January - Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave
- 30 January - Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile pioneer
- 3 February - August Horch German engineer and automobile pioneer,
- 8 February - Fritz Thyssen, German entrepreneur
- 12 March - Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman, politician and publisher
- 26 April - Gerda Müller, German actress
- 26 April - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
- 1 July — Gustav Höhne, Wehrmacht general and Knight's Cross recipient
- 2 July - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon
- 20 July - Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince
- 26 July – Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German air force officer
- 4 August - Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician
- 30 August - Erich Emminger, German politician
- 6 October - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist
- 17 October - Johann Becker, German politician
- October 20 - Karl Jarres, German politician
- 4 December - Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician and glaciologist