1970 in Germany
Events in the year 1970 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt and in Kassel - the start of a new Ostpolitik- 26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin
- 26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival
- 12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
- 1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line and Norddeutscher Lloyd or North German Lloyd to new company Hapag Lloyd
- 7 December – Warschauer Kniefall
Landtag Elections
- 22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg
- 14 June:
- * Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel forms his second cabinet
- * Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia
- * Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder forms his fourth cabinet.
Births
- 15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer
- 23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician
- 28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress
- 29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
- 2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician
- 5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
- 15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist
- 18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut
- 20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
- 18 April
- * Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
- * Esther Schweins, German comedian
- 20 April
- * Sven Benken, German footballer and manager
- * Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman
- 25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist
- 27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman
- 7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
- 20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician
- 29 June – Edda Mutter, German alpine skier
- 6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician
- 25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist
- 6 October – Corinna May, German singer
- 16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager
- 15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete
Deaths
- 5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician
- 27 January – Erich Heckel, German painter
- 30 January – Fritz Bayerlein, German general
- 16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor
- 30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany
- 3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- 9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician
- 12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright
- 3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician
- 6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general
- 17 July – Ernst Wellmann, army officer
- 19 July – Egon Eiermann, architect
- 1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate
- 10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer
- 25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist
- 2 October – Grethe Weiser, German actress
- 3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- 4 October - Jella Lepman, German journalist, author and translator
- 4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist
- 14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician