1961 in Germany

Events in the year 1961 in Germany.

Incumbents

President – Heinrich Lübke
Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

25 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
23 June - 4 July - 11th Berlin International Film Festival{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1961/01_jahresblatt_1961/01_Jahresblatt_1961.html |title=11th Berlin International Film Festival |access-date=18 January 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}
12 August - The construction of the Berlin Wall took place at the heart of the city. In just two weeks, the most important symbol of the Cold War divided the most turbulent city of the 20th Century into two occupation zones: West and East Germany.
17 September - West German federal election, 1961
14 November - The Fourth Adenauer cabinet, led by Konrad Adenauer, is sworn in.{{cite book|author1=Louise Willmot|author2=Hans-Peter Schwarz|title=Konrad Adenauer: From the German Empire to the Federal Republic, 1876-1952|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=1995|page=862}}
Date unknown - The Bark scale is devised by German acoustics scientist Eberhard Zwicker and named after Heinrich Barkhausen who proposes the first subjective measurements of loudness.Zwicker, E. (1961), "[https://archive.today/20130414113421/http://asadl.org/jasa/resource/1/jasman/v33/i2/p248_s1 Subdivision of the audible frequency range into critical bands]," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 248 (1961)

Births

24 January — Guido Buchwald, German football player
9 January — Petra Thümer, German swimmer
5 February — Dietmar Bär, German actor
6 February — Malu Dreyer, German politician
18 February — Armin Laschet, German politician
25 February — Hermann Gröhe, German politician
20 March — Maja Maranow, German actress (died 2016)
21 March — Lothar Matthäus, German football player and manager
19 April — Bernd Stelter, German comedian
23 April — Dirk Bach, German actor (died 2012)
29 April — Prince Heinrich of Hanover, German historian and publisher
6 May — Patty Ryan, German singer
7 May — Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
8 May — Andrea Pollack, German swimmer
14 May
Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
Urban Priol, German comedian
6 June — Anke Behmer, German athlete
12 June — Hannelore Kraft, German politician
29 June — Jörg Meuthen, German politician
15 August — Dietmar Mögenburg, German high jumper
7 September — Jochen Horst, German actor
10 September — Uwe Freimuth, German decathlete
12 September — Kirsten Fehrs, German Lutheran bishop
14 September — Martina Gedeck, German actress
15 September
Hendrikje Fitz, German actress (died 2016)
Frank Emmelmann, German sprinter
23 September — Manfred Schiller, German politician
22 October — Dietmar Woidke, German politician
17 November — Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (died 2015)
2 December — Gaby Köster, German comedian
12 December — Jan Stressenreuter, German author (died 2018)
26 December — Jörg Schüttauf, German actor
27 December — Guido Westerwelle, politician (died 2016)

Deaths

2 January — Walter Hörnlein, Wehrmacht general and Knight's Cross recipient (born 1893)
4 February — Heinz Lord, German-American surgeon (born 1917)
26 February — Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer and arts professor (born 1878){{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Of The Third Reich|publisher=Hachette Books|year=1997|ISBN=9780306807930|page=18}}
12 March — Hedwig Wangel, German actress (born 1875)
24 April — Hans-Friedrich Blunck, German jurist and writer (born 1888)
7 May — Jakob Kaiser, German politician and resistance leader (born 1888)
30 May - Werner Richard Heymann, German film composer (born 1896)
7 June — Karl Henry von Wiegand, German born American journalist and war correspondent (born 1874)
22 July — Georg Rosen, German diplomat (born 1895)
23 July — Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge (born 1895)
5 August — Hanns Seidel, German politician (born 1901)
23 August — Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator and fighter ace (b. 1891){{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/sachsenberg.php |title=Gotthard Sachsenberg |work=The Aerodrome |accessdate=7 July 2015}}
10 September — Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (born 1928)
18 October - Wilhelm Boden, German politician (born 1890)
21 October - Karl Korsch, German politician (born 1886){{cite book|title=Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical, and Critical Dictionary|publisher=Gale Research Company|year=1983|page=300}}
25 October — Werner Willikens, German Imperial officer and Nazi public servant (born 1893)
26 October — Fritz Lang, German painter (born 1877)
7 November — Augustin Rösch, German Catholic priest (born 1893)
30 November — Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, German scientist (born 1899)
21 December — Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, German politician (born 1893)
23 December — Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (born 1910){{cite book|author=Patrick Agte|title=Jochen Peiper: Commander of Panzer-Regiment "Leibstandarte"|publisher=J.J. Fedorowicz Pub|year=1999|ISBN=9780921991465|page=583}}
25 December — Otto Loewi, pharmacologist and psychobiologist (born 1873)

References

Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany

Category:1960s in Germany

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