1928 in Germany

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)
3 January – Klaus Schulze, Olympic rower (d. 2013)
14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)
16 January – Manfred Schukowski, astronomer (d. 2025)
27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)
31 January - Michael Degen, actor (d. 2022)
16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman (d. 2024)
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){{cite news |last1=Millington |first1=Barry |title=Christa Ludwig obituary |work=the Guardian |date=26 April 2021 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/26/christa-ludwig-obituary |access-date=26 October 2021}}
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){{cite web |title=Hardy Krüger obituary |date=20 January 2022 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405100711/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/20/hardy-kruger-obituary |archive-date=5 April 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/20/hardy-kruger-obituary}}
18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/17/heinz-wolff-obituary Heinz Wolff obituary]
9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)[https://www.radiovest.de/artikel/ard-urgestein-peter-merseburger-gestorben-1222448.html ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben] {{inlang|de}}
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{{cite book|author=Kenneth L. Adelman|title=East-West Relations in the 1990s - Politics and Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Roundtable Conference|publisher=Springer Netherlands|year=1989|page=140}}
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 (d. 2024)
28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian (d. 2024)
5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021){{cite news | title=Gerd Ruge, Reporterlegende der ARD ist tot | website=Der Spiegel | date=16 October 2021 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/gerd-ruge-die-reporterlegende-der-ard-ist-tot-a-58ede87f-429d-469d-9986-601cf0b0e37e | language=de | access-date=16 October 2021 | archive-date=16 October 2021 | archive-url=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 | url-status=live }}
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){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/hannah-goslar-anne-franks-friend-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-93|title=Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank’s friend and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 93|date=28 October 2022|website=The Guardian|access-date=31 October 2022}}
Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851){{cite web|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz19406.html|title=Biografie Bernhard III.(German)|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek|access-date=28 December 2016}}
8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857){{cite book | last = Daintith | first = John | title = Biographical encyclopedia of scientists | publisher = Institute of Physics Pub | location = Bristol Philadelphia | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780750302876 | page=195}}
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){{cite book|author=Francis Dunlop|title=Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTUqAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Claridge Press|isbn=978-1-870626-71-2|page=15}}
30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864){{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1911/wien/facts/|title=Wilhelm Wien - Facts|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=August 22, 2021}}
21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)
26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)

References

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