1930 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1930; List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1930 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President - Paul von Hindenburg
Chancellor - Hermann Müller (to 27 March), Heinrich Brüning (from 30 March)
Minister of Defence - Wilhelm Groener
Minister of Economics - Robert Schmidt then Hermann R. Dietrich then Ernst Trendelenburg
Minister of Finance - Paul Moldenhauer then Heinrich Brüning then Hermann R. Dietrich
Minister for Foreign Affairs - Julius Curtius
Minister of Labour - Rudolf Wissell then Adam Stegerwald
Postal Minister - Georg Schätzel
Minister of Transport - Adam Stegerwald then Theodor von Guérard

State level

Cities

Events

23 January - The Nazi Party gains its first minister as Wilhelm Frick becomes Minister of the Interior and Education in Thuringia as part of a right-wing coalition administration.^[1]
27 March - The government of Hermann Müller collapses.^[1]
30 March - A right of centre minority government takes office under Heinrich Brüning.^[1]
22 June - The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of Saxony
30 June - The French Army withdraws its troops from the Rhineland.^[1]
16 July - The government invokes Presidential Decree in order to force through its economic reforms.^[1]
18 July - The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) force through a vote against the rule by decree resulting in the dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections.^[1]
July - The German State Party is formed by a merger of the German Democratic Party and the Young German Order.
13 August - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin is established.
14 September - The federal election sees the SPD remain as the biggest party but with the Nazis jumping into second place. Smaller gains are enjoyed by the Communist Party of Germany, the Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party and the Centre Party whilst the main losers are the German National People's Party and the German People's Party.^[2]

Arts

23 February - Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.^[1]
Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt Weill's Der Jasager, Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen.
Fritz Reck-Malleczewen's comedy novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo is published.
Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred Rosenberg, publishes its first issue.

Communications

12 September - Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.^[1]

Science

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is won by Hans Fischer.
The IG Farben Building, the headquarters of the chemical company IG Farben, is completed in Frankfurt.

Sport

4–8 June - Albert Leidmann takes silver in the Light-Heavyweight division at the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
12 June - Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey by disqualification in The Bronx to win the vacant New York State Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association World Heavyweight Championships.^[3] Schmeling is the first German World Heavyweight Champion under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.^[4]
13–27 July - The 3rd Chess Olympiad is held in Hamburg with the hosts finishing third.
Hertha BSC are crowned German football champions after defeating Holstein Kiel in the final.
The 1930 European Figure Skating Championships are held in Berlin.

Transport

22 January - Monte Cervantes struck a rock off Ushuia, Chile and sank with the loss of her captain.
26 July - The cargo schooner Nobiskrug is launched from Rendsburg harbour.
5 October - The Junkers Ju 52 makes its maiden flight.
The airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
The luxury car Mercedes-Benz 770 begins production.

Births

2 January - Gerhard Geise, mathematician
4 January - Christoph Albrecht, organist
9 January
- Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist (died 2000)
- Carl-Ludwig Wagner, CDU politician (died 2012)
11 January - Hartmut Gründler, protestor who committed self-immolation
12 January - Klaus Scholder, ecclesiastical historian
26 January - Reinhart Hummel, theologian
28 January - Kurt Biedenkopf, CDU politician
30 January - Alfred Herrhausen, banker
8 February - Erich Böhme, journalist and broadcaster
8 February - Hans Grauert, mathematician
18 February - Gerd Aretz, artist
21 February - Gerhard Scherhorn, economist
23 February - Ignaz Kiechle, CSU politician
3 March - Heiner Geißler, CDU politician
8 March - Almuth Lütkenhaus, sculptor
10 March - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist
14 March - Helga Feddersen, entertainer
14 March - Dieter Schnebel, composer
3 April - Helmut Kohl, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany
11 April - Walter Krüger, athlete
14 April - Martin Adolf Bormann, priest, son of Martin Bormann and godson of Adolf Hitler
21 April - Eva Probst, actress
25 April - Peter Schulz, SPD politician
29 April - Claus Ogerman, arranger and orchestrator
7 May - Horst Bienek, novelist
17 May - Alfons Lütke-Westhues, equestrian
29 May - Burkhard Hirsch, FDP politician
29 May - Ekkehard Schall, actor/director
3 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, astronomer
5 June - Carl Otto Lenz, lawyer and CDU politician
8 June - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate
13 June - Gotthard Graubner, painter
22 June - Reinhold Remmert, mathematician
26 June - Wolfgang Schwanitz, head of the Stasi
27 June - Volker Vogeler, film director
30 June - Karl-Heinz Holze, footballer
6 July - Herbert Erhardt, footballer
14 July - Horst Rittel, design theorist
16 July - Horst Rittner, chess player
20 July - Heinz Kubsch, footballer
23 July - Ingrid Hartmann, sprint canoer
28 July - Hans Schröder, sculptor and painter
30 July - Helmut Kirchmeyer, musicologist
4 August - Götz Friedrich, opera and theatre director
11 August - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
16 August - Wolfgang Völz, actor
25 August - Rainer Zepperitz, double bassist
8 September - Mario Adorf, actor
19 September - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, judge
20 September - Adolf Endler, author
24 September - Horst Sachtleben, actor
26 September - Fritz Wunderlich, opera singer
5 October - Reinhard Selten, economist
11 October - Harry Glaß, ski jumper
17 October - Freimut Börngen, astronomer
17 October - Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, historian
5 November - Hans and Wolfgang Mommsen, historians and twin brothers
20 November - Rudi Felgenheier, motorcycle racer
22 November - Ferdinand von Bismarck, Fürst von Bismarck
26 November - Berthold Leibinger, engineer
27 November - Reinhard Glemnitz, actor
1 December - Joachim Hoffmann, historian
9 December - Carl-August Fleischhauer, judge
10 December - Avraham Ahituv, German-born Israeli intelligence chief
13 December - Nathan Zach, German-born Israeli poet
17 December - Erhard Geißler, biologist
17 December - Armin Mueller-Stahl, film actor
19 December - Georg Stollenwerk, footballer
21 December - Wolfgang Pietzsch, chess grand master
26 December - Wilferd Madelung, scholar of Islam

Deaths

3 January - Guglielmo Plüschow, photographer
14 January - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, civil servant
24 January - Adolf Kneser, mathematician
5 February - Friedrich von Duhn, classical scholar
9 February - Augustinus Bludau, Bishop of Ermland
23 February - Horst Wessel, Sturmabteilung member and Nazi Party "martyr"
24 February - Hermann von Ihering, zoologist
6 March - Alfred von Tirpitz, Admiral and founder of the German Imperial Navy
10 March - Paul von Breitenbach, railway planner
31 March - Emil Krebs, sinologist
31 March - Ludwig Schüler, Mayor of Marburg
19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster, surgeon
30 April Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician
29 May - Ludwig Rehn, surgeon
7 June - Julius Smend, theologian
10 June - Adolf von Harnack, theologian
8 July - Gustav Weigand, linguist
29 July - Theodor Axenfeld, ophthalmologist
8 August - Walther Reinhardt, Army officer
10 September - Eugen Diederichs, publisher
20 September - Moritz Pasch, mathematician
28 September - Prince Leopold of Bavaria, nobleman and Field Marshal
10 October - Adolf Engler, botanist
27 October - Alexander Baerwald, architect
17 November - Hans Kniep, botanist
11 December - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Prussian Army general
15 December - Johannes Hoffmann, SPD Minister-President of Bavaria
16 December - Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley, painter
19 December - Conrad Willgerodt, chemist
25 December - Eugen Goldstein, physicist

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Tim Kirk, Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History, London, 2002, p. 421
↑ Das Deutsche Reich Reichstagswahl 1930
↑ Schmeling, Beaten, Wins Crown on Foul
↑ German Becomes the 10th Heavyweight To Capture Title

[Kirk-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 Tim Kirk, Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History, London, 2002, p. 421

[2] Das Deutsche Reich Reichstagswahl 1930

[3] Schmeling, Beaten, Wins Crown on Foul

[4] German Becomes the 10th Heavyweight To Capture Title

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