1970 in Germany
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Events in the year 1970 in Germany.
Incumbents
- President – Gustav Heinemann
- Chancellor – Willy Brandt
Events
- 16 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970
- Willy Brandt (SPD),
West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (19 March) and in Kassel (21 May) - the start of a new Ostpolitik (new eastern policy)
- 26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which is agreed on 3 September 1971)
- 26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival
- 12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
- 1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloyd
- 7 December – Warschauer Kniefall
Landtag Elections
- 22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg
- 14 June:
- Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel (SPD) forms his second cabinet
- Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia (the SPD-FDP-coalition keeps its majority; MP Heinz Kühn forms his second cabinet)
- Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder (CDU) forms his fourth cabinet.
Births
- 15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer
- 23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician
- 28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress
- 29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
- 2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician
- 5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
- 15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist
- 18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut
- 20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
- 18 April
- Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
- Esther Schweins, German comedian
- 20 April
- Sven Benken, German footballer and manager
- Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman (died 2022)
- 25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist
- 27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman
- 7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
- 20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician
- 6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (died 2016)
- 25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist (died 2022)
- 6 October – Corinna May, German singer
- 16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager
- 15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete
Deaths
- 5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (born 1882)[1]
- 16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor (born 1885)
- 30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1885)
- 3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (born 1897)
- 9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician (born 1902)
- 12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1891)[2]
- 3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician (born 1877)
- 6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
- 1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate (born 1883)[3]
- 10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (born 1918)[4]
- 25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (born 1898)[5]
- 3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1885)
- 4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist (born 1885)
- 14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (born 1876)
References
- ^ "Nobel prize winner dies". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Pennsylvania, U.S.). Associated Press. 6 January 1970. p. 26.
- ^ Leo Baeck Institute (1990). Catalog of the Archival Collections. Mohr Siebeck. p. 124. ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1.
- ^ Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
- ^ "Bernd Aloïs Zimmermann". Dictionnaire de la musique (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 56: German Fiction Writers, 1914–1945. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by James Hardin, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1987. pp. 222–41.
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