1929 in Germany explained

Events in the year 1929 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)
• Chancellor - Hermann Müller (Social Democrats)

Events

• 8 - 29 August - Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo - Los Angeles).
• 31 August - The Young Plan for settling German World War I reparations is finalized.
• October - The Wall Street Crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism.^[1] The number of unemployed reaches three million.^[2]
• Alfred Döblin's modernist novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is published.
• Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is first published in book format
• German car company Opel is taken over by American company General Motors. General Motors assumed full control in 1931.
• Date unknown - Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with German physician Werner Forssmann in 1929, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it.
• Date unknown - Styrene-butadiene was developed by German chemist Walter Bock.
• Date unknown: Steroid hormone Estrogen was isolated and purified estrone, the first estrogen to be discovered by Adolf Butenandt
• Date unknown: Rudolf Hell receives a patent for the Hellschreiber, an early fax machine.

Births

• 3 January — Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and orchestra conductor
• 4 January - Günter Schabowski, German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (died 2015)
• 5 January - Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
• 9 January - Heiner Müller, dramatist (died 1995)^[3]
• 29 January - John Polanyi, German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate^[4]
• 31 January - Rudolf Mössbauer, nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (died 2011)
• 4 February - Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (died 2009)
• 18 February - Günther Schramm, German actor
• 25 February -Irmgard Oepen, German physician and medical journalist (died 2018)
• 9 March - Werner Grossmann, East German deputy leader of the Ministry for State Security ^[5]
• 18 March - Christa Wolf, literary critic, novelist, and essayist (died 2011)^[6]
• 30 March -Peter Kuiper, German (died 2007)
• 2 April - Hans Koschnick, German politician (died 2016)
• 3 April - Klaus Hemmerle, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1994)
• 8 April - Hans Korte, German actor (died 2016)
• 17 April - James Last, born Hans Last, bandleader (died 2015 in the United States)^[7]
• 29 April - Walter Kempowski, German writer (died 2007)^[8]
• 30 April - Klausjürgen Wussow, German actor (died 2007)
• 1 May - Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and political scientist (died 2009)^[9]
• 8 May - Günther Wyschofsky, East German politician
• 10 May - Gerhard Müller, German Lutheran theologian (died 2024)
• 16 May - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
• 20 May - Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (died 2021)^[10]
• 26 May - Alfred Kunz, German-Canadian composer (died 2019)
• 4 June - Günter Strack, actor (died 1999)
• 10 June - Harald Juhnke, comedian (died 2005)
• 12 June
  • Anne Frank, born Annelies Frank, Jewish diarist (died 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
  • Eva Pflug, actress (died 2008)
    • 18 June Jörg Faerber, conductor (died 2022)
  • Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
• 29 June - Eberhard Jäckel, historian (died 2017)
• 30 June - Othmar Mága, German conductor
• 22 July - Percy Borucki, German fencer
• 2 August - Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist
• 16 August - Helmut Rahn, German football player (died 2003)
• 20 August - Lorenz Weinrich, German historian
• 8 September - Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor
• 9 September - Ruth Pfau, German physician (died 2017)
• 14 September – Hans Clarin, German actor (died 2005)
• 19 September - Heiner Carow, German film director and screenwriter (died 1997)
• 20 September - Hans von Borsody (died 2013)
• 20 October - Saschko Gawriloff, German violinist
• 25 October - Peter Rühmkorf, writer (died 2008)
• 11 November - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer (died 2022)
• 12 November - Michael Ende, writer (died 1995)
• 27 November - Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate (died 2018)
• 29 November - Xaver Unsinn ice hockey player (died 2012)
• 1 December - Karl Otto Pöhl, economist (died 2014)
• 14 December - Kurt Wünsche, politician

Deaths

• 28 January - Hans von Plessen, general (born 1841)
• 29 January - Hans Prutz, historian (born 1843)
• 1 March
  • Wilhelm von Bode, German art historian (born 1845)
  • Ernst Oppler, painter (born 1867)
• 4 April - Karl Benz, automotive pioneer (born 1844)^[11]
• 20 April - Prince Henry of Prussia, German nobleman and naval officer (born 1862)
• 13 May - Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer (born 1878)
• 18 June - Hermann Wagner, geographer (born 1840)
• 13 May – Arthur Scherbius, electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor (born 1878)
• 22 June - Alfred Brunswig, philosopher (born 1877)
• 5 July - Hans Meyer, geologist (born 1858)
• 14 July - Hans Delbrück, historian (born 1848)
• 15 July - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, poet, dramatist and novelist (born 1874)^[12]
• 3 October - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate (born 1878)
• 8 October - Max Lehmann, historian (born 1845)
• 26 October - Aby Warburg, art historian (born 1866)
• 28 October - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor 1900-09 (born 1849)^[13]
• 4 November - Karl von den Steinen, German explorer and physician (born 1855)
• 6 November - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor October–November 1918 (born 1867)
• 10 December - Franz Rosenzweig, theologian and philosopher (born 1886)
• 29 December - Wilhelm Maybach, automobile designer (born 1846)

Notes and References

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2. Book: Gilbert, Martin. Martin Gilbert

   . Martin Gilbert. A History of the Twentieth Century. New York. Avon Books. 1998. 0-380-71393-4.

3. Book: Kalb, Jonathan . The theater of Heiner Müller . Limelight Editions . New York . 2001 . 9780879109653 . 1.
4. Web site: John C. Polanyi – Biography. The Nobel Foundation. 31 March 2011.
5. Book: Klaus Marxen. Gerhard Werle. Strafjustiz und DDR-Unrecht: Spionage. 2004. De Gruyter. 978-3-89949-080-0.
6. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/01/christa-wolf Christa Wolf obituary
7. Book: Billboard. 19 May 1973. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 38.
8. Web site: Donahue . Patrick . 5 October 2007 . German Writer, Chronicler Walter Kempowski Dies at Age 78 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019174210/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=asCg2REe5kn0 . 19 October 2012 . Bloomberg.com . 5 October 2007.
9. Grimes, William. "Ralph Dahrendorf, Sociologist, Dies at 80 ", The New York Times, 22 June 2009. Accessed 10 October 2009.
10. News: 16 January 2021. Falleció Pedro Trebbau, reconocido zoólogo venezolano de origen alemán. 17 January 2021. El Nacional. es-VE.
11. Book: Long, Brian . Mercedes-Benz SLK R171 series : 2004-2011 . Veloce Publishing . Dorcester, England . 2015 . 9781845846534 . 14.
12. Book: Warrack, John . The concise Oxford dictionary of opera . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 1996 . 9780192800282 . 234.
13. Book: Magill, Frank . Great lives from history . Salem Press . Pasadena, Calif . 1990 . 9780893565664 . 332.