1951 in Germany explained

Events in the year 1951 in West Germany and East Germany.

Incumbents

West Germany

President – Theodor Heuss
Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

East Germany

Head of State – Wilhelm Pieck
Head of Government – Otto Grotewohl

Events

29 April - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1951
5 June - East German referendum, 1951
6 to 17 June - 1st Berlin International Film Festival
unknown date - In Munich, a collection of mementos and personal papers belonging to Adolf Hitler is turned over to Bayerische Landesbank, for authentication and eventual sale. Among the documents are his appointment as Chancellor signed by President Paul von Hindenburg, his Austrian passport, as well as an assortment of swastika insignia pins and medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 is made for the collection.

Births

1 January - Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver
4 January - Richard Oetker, German businessman
8 January - Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer
28 January - Karl Honz, German athlete
16 February - Franz-Josef Hermann Bode, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück
24 February - Gabriele Schnaut, German opera singer (died 2023)
4 March - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
24 March - Monika Stolz, German politician
30 March - Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer
1 April - Johanna Wanka, German politician
9 April - Monika Piel, German journalist
17 April - Horst Hrubesch, German football player
18 May - Angela Voigt, German long jumper (died 2013)
26 June - Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
28 June - Rolf Milser, German weightlifter
13 July - Sonia Seymour Mikich, German journalist
21 July - Eberhard Gienger, German politician and gymnast
26 July - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
31 July - Martin Mosebach, German writer
3 August - Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
5 August - Franz-Peter Hofmeister, German athlete
15 August - Herfried Münkler, German political scientist
5 September - Paul Breitner, German football player
22 September - Wolfgang Petry, German singer
24 September - Heinz Hoenig, German actor
29 September - Jörg Diesch, German sailor
29 September- Jutta Ditfurth, German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician
5 October - Beate Heister, German businesswoman
20 October - Hans-Georg Aschenbach, German ski jumper
21 November - Thomas Roth, German journalist
2 December - Roman Bunka, German musician (died 2022)
4 December - Reinhard Eiben, German canoeist
14 December - Mike Krüger, German comedian
18 December - Volker Bouffier, German politician

Deaths

January 22 - Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (born 1872)
January 30 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile pioneer (born 1875)
February 3 - August Horch German engineer and automobile pioneer, (born 1868)
February 8 - Fritz Thyssen, German entrepreneur (born 1873)
March 12 - Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman, politician and publisher (born 1865)
April 26 - Gerda Müller, German actress (born 1894)
April 26 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (born 1868)
July 1 — Gustav Höhne, Wehrmacht general and Knight's Cross recipient (born 1893)
July 2 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (born 1875)
July 20 - Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (born 1882)
July 26 – Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German air force officer (born 1893)
August 4 - Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (born 1882)
August 30 - Erich Emminger, German politician (born 1880)
October 6 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist (born 1884)
October 17 - Johann Becker, German politician (born 1869)
October 20 - Karl Jarres, German politician (born 1874)
December 4 - Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician and glaciologist (born 1862)