1954 in Germany
Events in the year 1954 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- Berlin Conference from 25 January to 18 February 1954).
- 18 to 29 June - 4th Berlin International Film Festival
- 4 July - Germany wins in 1954 FIFA World Cup Final
- 20 July Otto John, president of the West German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution since 1950, disappeares in West Berlin. In December 1955, he succeeds to flee from East Berlin and to return to West Berlin.
- 23 September: 1954 Bitburg explosion
- 2 October: The Treaties of Paris are signed, paving the way for the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and its admission to NATO.
- 17 October - East German general election, 1954
- Date unknown - Wittig reaction discovered.
- Date unknown - The Angle grinder is invented by German company Ackermann + Schmitt.
- Date unknown - The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat.
Births
- 4 January
- * Birgit Havenstein, German composer
- * Peter Seiffert, German operatic tenor
- 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
- 28 January - Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian
- 7 February - Dieter Bohlen, German songwriter, producer, singer and television personality
- 10 February - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
- 19 February
- * Francis Buchholz, German bass guitarist
- * 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
- 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
- 4 June - Hermann Gerland, German football manager
- 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
- 22 June - Wolfgang Becker, German film director and screenwriter
- 3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
- 17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 25 July - Jürgen Trittin, German politician
- 28 July - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 14 August - Berthold Albrecht, German entrepreneur
- 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
Deaths
- January 15 - Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician
- January 19 - Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter
- January 22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess
- February 6 - Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
- March 6
- * Hermann Dietrich, German politician
- * Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- March 7 — Otto Diels, German chemist
- April 14 -Siegfried von Roedern, German politician
- May 6 - Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess
- May 19 - Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- June 14 - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor
- June 27 - Theodor Loos, German actor
- July 1 - Thea von Harbou, German actress, novelist and film director
- July 16 - Herms Niel, German composer
- August 4 - Harald Paulsen, German actor
- August 7 - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician
- August 25- Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer
- September 5 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician
- September 27 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal
- October 29 - Hermann Ehlers, German politician
- October 30 - Gustav Dahrendorf, German politician
- November 11 - Reinhold Schünzel, German actor
- November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer
- December 14 - Emil Rausch, German swimmer
- December 30 - Günther Quandt, German industrialist
- Date unknown — Franz Brandt, World War I German flying ace