1928 in Germany explained

Events in the year 1928 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)
• Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (to 28 June), Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (from 28 June)

Events

• May - October – Pressa held in Cologne
• 20 May – 1928 German federal election
• 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor

Births

• 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian
• 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)
• 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)
• 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)
• 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich
• 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
• 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (d. 2020)
• 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
• 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (d. 2021)^[1]
  • • 8 April Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024)
  • Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
• 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022)^[2]
• 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
• 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)^[3]
• 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024)
• 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022)
• 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician^[4]
• 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
• 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor (d. 2017)
• 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (d. 2014)
• 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
• 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
• 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)^[5]
• 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)
• 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
• 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist
• 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (d. 1995)
• 12 November
  • Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank (d. 2022)^[6]
  • Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

• 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851)^[7]
• 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857)^[8]
  • • 27 February Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (born 1860)
  • Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)
• 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874)^[9]
• 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)^[10]
• 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)
• 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)

Notes and References

1. News: Millington . Barry . Christa Ludwig obituary . the Guardian . 26 April 2021 . 26 October 2021.
2. Web site: Hardy Krüger obituary . 20 January 2022 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230405100711/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/20/hardy-kruger-obituary . 5 April 2023 . live .
3. https://www.radiovest.de/artikel/ard-urgestein-peter-merseburger-gestorben-1222448.html ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben
4. Book: Kenneth L. Adelman. East-West Relations in the 1990s - Politics and Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Roundtable Conference. Springer Netherlands. 1989. 140.
5. News: Gerd Ruge, Reporterlegende der ARD ist tot . . 16 October 2021 . de . 16 October 2021 . 16 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211016145147/https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/gerd-ruge-die-reporterlegende-der-ard-ist-tot-a-58ede87f-429d-469d-9986-601cf0b0e37e . live .
6. Web site: Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank’s friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93. 28 October 2022. The Guardian. 31 October 2022.
7. Web site: Biografie Bernhard III.(German). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. 28 December 2016.
8. Book: Daintith, John . Biographical encyclopedia of scientists . Institute of Physics Pub . Bristol Philadelphia . 1994 . 9780750302876 . 195.
9. Book: Francis Dunlop. Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler. 1991. Claridge Press. 978-1-870626-71-2. 15.
10. Web site: Wilhelm Wien - Facts. NobelPrize.org. August 22, 2021.