1950 in Germany

Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany.

Incumbents

=West Germany=

President – Theodor Heuss
Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

=East Germany=

Events

April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.
June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.
July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
July 19 - The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
August 5 - Publication of the Charter of German Expellees.
September 7 - Schwarzwaldmädel, the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. It ushers in an era of local film in West Germany.
September 19 - At the conference of foreign ministers of the three Western powers in New York, the federal government in Bonn was recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
October 5-9 - Himmerod memorandum
October 19 - East German general election, 1950

Births

January 9 - Rio Reiser, singer (died 1996)
January 21 - Marion Becker, athlete
January 22 - Werner Schulz, politician (died 2022)
January 27 - Ulrich Deppendorf, journalist
January 30 - Reinhold Kauder, canoeist
February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
February 8 - Manfred Milinski, biologist
March 6 - Felix Genn, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
March 12 – Traudl Treichl, German alpine skier
March 22 - Hugo Egon Balder, actor and comedian
March 22 - Herman Weigel, German film producer
April 25 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)
April 30 - Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, German judge
May 12 - Renate Stecher, athlete
May 16 - Georg Bednorz, physicist
May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, actor and television presenter
May 26 - Werner Bergmann, sociologist
May 31 - Christine Kurzhals, politician (died 1998){{Cite web |title=Biographie des MdB Christine Kurzhals, SPD |trans-title=Biography of MP Christine Kurzhals, SPD |url=https://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2007/0206/mdb/mdb13/bio/K/kurzhch0.html |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Bundestag |language=de}}
June 15 - Heidi Schüller, long jumper
June 16 - Klaus Lage, singer
June 21 - Ferdinand Kirchhof, judge
June 20 - Gudrun Landgrebe, actress
July 7 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, politician
July 27- David Storl, track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put
August 5 - Rosi Mittermaier, alpine ski racer (died 2023)
August 12 – Iris Berben, actress
September 2 - Michael Rother, musician
September 23 - Dietmar Lorenz, judoka
October 13 - Annegret Richter, athlete
October 28 - Annette Humpe, singer
November 10 - Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, historian
November 17 - Roland Matthes, swimmer
November 28 - Hans Fassnacht, swimmer

Deaths

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8 February - Arthur Kampf, German painter (born 1864)
9 February - Franz Justus Rarkowski, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1873)
12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)
3 March - Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (born 1886)
11 March - Heinrich Mann, German writer (born 1871)
3 April - Kurt Weill, German composer (born 1900){{cite book|last=Mercado|first=Mario R.|title=Kurt Weill: A Guide to His Works|publisher=Kurt Weill Foundation for Music|year=1989}}
22 April - Günther Rüdel, German general (born 1883)
27 April — Karl Straube, German organist (born 1873){{Cite web|last=Biographie|first=Deutsche|title=Straube, Karl - Deutsche Biographie|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz106765.html|access-date=2021-08-30|website=www.deutsche-biographie.de|language=de}}
2 May — Paul Eugen Sieg, physicist and writer (born 1899)
3 May — August Marahrens, German Protestant bishop who served as Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (born 1875)
29 May — Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (born 1884)
29 June — Melitta Bentz, German inventor and entrepreneur (born 1873)
1 September - Fritz Kampers, German actor (born 1891)
10 October - Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (born 1894)
1 November - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (born 1876)
2 November - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (born 1886)
8 November — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist (born (1873)
30 November - Werner Haase, German surgeon (born 1900)
21 December - Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1880)
27 December — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)

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References

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