Events in the year 1953 in Germany.
Incumbents President – Theodor Heuss Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer
Events 12 March - 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident 12 April - Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded. 10 May - The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt. 16/17 June - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 18 to 20 June - 3rd Berlin International Film Festival 7 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accident 6 September - West German federal election, 1953 20 October - The Second Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in. Date unknown - Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.
Births January 10 - Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete January 16 - Reinhard Jirgl, German writer January 22 - Jürgen Pommerenke, German football player January 24 - Ulrich Holbein, German writer January 31 - Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, German judge March 1 - Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower March 14 - Christian von Ditfurth, German historian March 24 - Mathias Richling, German comedian February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (died 1997) April 10 - Heiner Lauterbach, German actor May 11 - Thomas Middelhoff, German manager May 18 - Ute Kircheis-Wessel, German fencer June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (died 2007) June 23 - Michael Eichberger, German judge July 23 - Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, German weightlifter July 26 - Felix Magath, German footballer and football trainer July 30 - Heribert Prantl, German journalist August 17 - Andreas Kirchner, German Winter sportsman (died 2010) August 17 - Herta Müller, German writer August 24 - Georg Nagel, German biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate August 27 - Gabriele Haefs, German translator August 29 - Rainer Pottel, German decathlete September 2 - Gerhard Thiele, German astronaut September 21 - Reinhard Marx, German cardinal of the Catholic Church November 7 - Ottfried Fischer, German actor November 16 - Brigitte Zypries, German politician October 1 - Klaus Wowereit, German politician October 10 - Martin Viessmann, German businessman October 15 - Günther Oettinger, German politician December 11 - Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist (died 2014) December 23 - Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (died 2022) December 26 - Henning Schmitz, German musician December 29 Thomas Bach, 9th president of the IOC Matthias Platzeck, German politician
Deaths
28 January - Theophil Wurm, German leader in the German Protestant Church in the early twentieth century (born 1868) 20 January - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (born 1913) 24 February - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875) 28 March - Alfred Philippson, German geographer (born 1864) 2 April - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (born 1885) 20 April - Erich Weinert, German writer (born 1890) 12 May - Fritz Mackensen, German painter (born 1866) 18 May - Rudolf Nadolny, German diplomat (born 1873) 21 May - Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician (born 1871) 31 July - Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (born 1884) 13 August - Paul Kemp, German actor (born 1896) 15 August - Ludwig Prandtl, German engineer (born 1875) 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (born 1884) 29 September- Ernst Reuter, German politician (born 1889) 27 October — Eduard Künneke, German composer (born 1885)
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