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