Miss Germany

Miss Germany
Formation 1927
Type Beauty Pageant
Headquarters Berlin
Location
Membership
 Miss World
Official language
 German

Miss Germany is a national beauty pageant in Germany. The contest was held for the first time in 1927.

History

In the past there were several organisations which claimed the title: In the 1920s already, German jurisdiction decided that the title Miss Germany could not be patented or registered, thus everybody was allowed to run a contest and name the winner Miss Germany. A similar decision followed in 1982. This resulted in having two titleholders in some years (as in 1928, 1931, 1953 and 1982), elected by different associations. In 1953, the new organiser and main sponsor of the pageant, the Opal stocking industries, acquired the international franchises for Miss Europe, Miss World, and Miss Universe and built up a kind of monopoly: Other promoters could not delegate their winners to international competitions, thus such rival contests became unattractive. The election of Heidi Krüger by the daily newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost remained an exception for many years.

During the National Socialist era there were held no beauty contests. The Nazi government prohibited them as a "Jewish-Bolshevik decadence", and instead of them publicised the election of (local) Harvest, Bloom, and Wine Queens. The government forbade Charlotte Hartmann the participation in the Miss Europe contest in Paris, France. She had been elected Miss Germany a few days before the beginning of the Nazi rule, and secretly took part in the pageant, nevertheless. In substitution, the Saar Territory which was governed by the League of Nations chose a Miss, which was allowed to travel to international competitions.

In the GDR, beauty pageants were also forbidden as "degradation and exploitation of the woman by capitalism". Nevertheless, in the Eastern part of Berlin there were held some contests, camouflaged as culture-evenings, in the second half of the 1980s. The winners received a cake and a bouquet as a prize. In 1990, the MGC (see above) held the only official election for Miss DDR. The winner, Leticia Koffke, became the first all-German Miss Germany a few months later.

In some years, no national contests were held: The German delegates for international pageants were hand-picked out of the regional winners, without a final. So it happened from 1972 to 1978. In 1971, the term of Irene Neumann was even extended for another year.

After the bankruptcy of the Opal company, a period of decline followed. There were no financially strong sponsors. Members of the Revolution of 1968 and feminists mobilized against the "meat-inspects". Public interest diminished. Influential organisers became not active before the end of the 1970s. The international franchises held by Opal became vacant. In 1979, Miss Germany was elected live in the German television for the first time. It was not until 1982 that the first rival contest was held again after a long interval.

Since 1985, at least two organisations run rival pageants:

Winners

1927-1933

Year Name Site of election
1927 Hildegard Quandt Berlin
1928 Hella Hoffmann Berlin
1928 Margarete Grow Berlin
1929 Elisabeth Rodzyn Berlin
1930 Dorit Nitykowski Berlin
1931 Ruth Ingrid Richard Berlin
1931 Daisy d’Ora Berlin
1932 Liselotte de Booy-Schulze Berlin
1933 Charlotte Hartmann Berlin

Notes: Daisy d’Ora was a pseudonym. The real name of the 1931 winner was Daisy, Baronesse von Freyberg. – In 1935, Elisabeth Pitz from Saarbrücken participated in the Miss Europe Pageant in Paris as last German delegate before World War II. But she was not Miss Germany.

1949 to 1984

Year Name Qualified as Site of election Placement Notes
1949 Inge Löwenstein Miss Stuttgart Bad Homburg
1950 Susanne Erichsen Miss Schleswig-Holstein Baden-Baden
1951 Vera Marks ? Baden-Baden
1952 Renate Hoy ? Baden-Baden
1953 Christel Schaack Miss Berlin Wiesbaden Miss Europe 1954
1953/54 Heidi Krüger ? Hamburg
1954 Regina Ernst Miss Bremen Baden-Baden
1955 Margit Nünke Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Baden-Baden Miss Europe 1956
1956 Marina Orschel Miss Berlin Baden-Baden
1957 Gerti Daub Miss Hamburg Baden-Baden
1958 Marlies Behrens Miss Bayern Baden-Baden
1959 Carmela Künzel Miss Berlin Baden-Baden
1960 Ingrun Helgard Moeckel Miss Rheinland Baden-Baden Miss Europe 1961
1961 Marlene Schmidt Miss Baden-Württemberg Baden-Baden Miss Universe 1961
1962 Gisela Karschuck Miss Hessen Travemünde
1963 Helga Carla Ziesemer Miss Bayern Travemünde
1964 Martina Kettler Miss Berlin Berlin
1965 Ingrid Bethke Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Berlin
1966 Marion Heinrich Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Berlin
1967 Fee von Zitzewitz Miss Schleswig-Holstein Berlin
1968 Lilian Atterer Miss Bayern Munich
1969 Gesine Froese Miss Bayern Munich
1970 Irene Neumann ? San Juan (Puerto Rico)
1971 Irene Neumann — term extended without election
1972 Heidi Weber Miss Bayern appointed without election
1973 Ingeborg Martin ? Munich
1974 Monja Bageritz Miss Rheinland appointed without election
1975 Marina Langner ? appointed without election
1976 Monika Schneeweis ? Baden-Baden
1977 Dagmar Winkler Miss Bayern Baden-Baden
1978 Monika Greis Miss Süddeutschland appointed without election
1979 Andrea Hontschik Miss Berlin Bremen, Studio Radio Bremen (1)
1980 Gabriella Brum Miss Berlin Berlin Winner at Miss World 1980 Resigned 18 hours after winning the Miss World title.
1981 Marion Kurz Miss Bayern Munich
1982 Kerstin Paeserack Miss Niedersachsen Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
1982 Monika Baier ? Nuremberg
1983 Angela Michel Miss Franken Augsburg
1983 Loana Radecki Miss Berlin Badgastein (Austria)
1984 Brigitte Berx Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Bad Mondorf (Luxembourg)

Note: (1) In 1979, the Miss Germany election was broadcast live on German TV for the first time.

From 1985 : MGC - Miss Germany Corporation GmbH (Oldenburg)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election Placement Notes
1985/86 Patricia Patek Miss Hessen Wangerooge
1986/87 Anja Hörnich Miss Saarland Oberstdorf
1987/88 Susann Stoss Miss Rheinland-Pfalz Bonn - Bad Godesberg Queen of the World 1988
1988/89 Nicole Reinhardt Miss Baden-Württemberg Cologne
1989/90 Claudia Weins Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Schwäbisch-Gmünd
1990/91 Leticia Koffke Miss Brandenburg Wesseling (near Cologne)
1991/92 Ines Kuba Miss Berlin Oldenburg Queen of the World 1992
1992/93 Astrid Kuhlmann Miss Bayern Berlin
1993/94 Cornelia Oehlmann Miss Baden-Württemberg Hanover
1994/95 Beate Almer Miss Bayern Cologne
1996 Yasemine Mansoor Miss Berlin Berlin Queen of the World 1996
1997 Sabrina Paradies Miss Norddeutschland Berlin
1998 Michalina Koscielniak Miss LR-Kosmetik Berlin
1999 Alexandra Phillips Miss Süddeutschland Berlin
2000 Sandra Hoffmann Miss Mitteldeutschland Berlin
2001 Mirjana Bogojevic Miss Hamburg Berlin
2002 Katrin Wrobel Miss Berlin Berlin
2003 Babett Konau Miss Schleswig-Holstein Rust
2004 Claudia Hein Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Rust
2005 Antonia Schmitz Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Rust
2006 Isabelle Knispel Miss Berlin Rust
2007 Nelly Marie Bojahr Miss T-Online Rust
2008 Kim-Valerie Voigt Miss Norddeutschland Rust
2009 Doris Schmidts Miss Baden-Württemberg Rust
2010 Anne Julia Hagen Miss Berlin Rust
2011 Anne-Kathrin Kosch Miss Thüringen Rust
2012 Isabel Gülck Miss Schleswig-Holstein Rust
2013 Caroline Noeding[1] Miss Niedersachsen Rust
2014 Vivien Konca Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Rust

1985-1991 : Miss Germany Company

Year Name Qualified as Placement Notes
1985 Anke Symkowitz Miss Baden-Württemberg
1986 Birgit Jahn Miss Bayern
1986/87 Dagmar Schulz Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen
1987/88 Christiane Kopp Miss Berlin
1988/89 Andrea Stelzer Miss Bayern
1989/90 Christiane Stöcker Miss Hessen
1990/91 Susanne Petry Miss Saarland Miss Intercontinental 1992; Miss Europe 1991
1991/92 Monika Resch Miss Thüringen

1991-1999 : MGA - Miss Germany Association GmbH (Bergheim near Cologne)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election Placement Notes
1989/90 Marion Winz Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Kaarst
1991 Petra Hack Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Bielefeld
1992 Diana Leisgen Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Dresden
Meike Schwarz Miss Saarland
1993 Verona Feldbusch Miss Hamburg Bremen Miss Intercontinental 1993
1994 Tanja Wild Miss Baden-Württemberg Chemnitz
1995 Ilka Endres Miss Rheinland-Pfalz Trier
1996 Miriam Ruppert Miss Arabella TV Trier
1997 Nadine Schmidt Miss Rheinland-Pfalz Trier
1998 Katharina Mainka Miss Rheinland-Pfalz Trier
1999 Diana Drubig Miss Sachsen Trier

1999/2000 : other organisers

Year Name Site of election Company
1999 Yvonne Wölke Berlin Rolf Eden
2000 Sonja Strobl Mainz-Kastel Model of Germany Productions

Notes: Yvonne Wölke became Miss Berlin and participated in Miss Deutschland in 2002. – The pageant and the title of Model of Germany Productions later had to be renamed Model of Germany.

Pageants with other names

From the following competitions, certainly, only Miss Deutschland is of importance. In the inland it does not have the same prestige as Miss Germany, but compensates this, as the election always takes place (and is announced in the media) some weeks before. One can estimate the international presence of the organization by the four assigned titles for 2006.

For the other contests there are no complete data available. Also it is not always known whether they still exist. They are only shown here in order to obtain an impression how unclear the situation still is, although there is only one Miss Germany since 2000.

Miss Deutschland from 2000 : MGO - Komitee Miss Deutschland (Bergheim near Cologne)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election Placement Notes
2000 Sabrina Schepmann Miss Ostdeutschland Kaiserslautern 14th place at Miss Universe 2000 Miss Intercontinental 2000
2001 Claudia Bechstein Miss Thüringen Kaiserslautern
2002 Natascha Börger Miss Hamburg Kaiserslautern Top 10 (6th place) at Miss Universe 2002
2003 Alexandra Vodjanikova Miss Bayern Bielefeld
2004 Shermine Shahrivar [Sharivar] Miss Süddeutschland Duisburg Miss Europe 2005
2005 Asli Bayram Miss Nordrhein-Westfalen Aachen
2006 Daniela Domröse Miss Bayern Krefeld
2007 Svetlana Tsys Miss Ostdeutschland Hurghada (Egypt)
2008 Janice Behrendt Herford Dortmund

Model of Germany from 2000 : Model of Germany Productions (Stuttgart)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2000 Sonja Strobl Saarland Model Mainz-Kastel
Anja Schröder Niedersachsen Model
2001 Slata Hellmann Thüringen Model Würzburg
2002 Pamela Schneider Berlin Model Stuttgart
2003 Kristin Wünsche Mitteldeutschland Model Friedrichshafen
2004 pageant not held
2005 Yvonne Maier Baden-Württemberg Model Rheinmünster
2006 pageant not held
2007 Iren Gorich Baden-Württemberg Model ?

Note: The first pageant was held in the end of 1999 under the title of Miss Germany, but later had to be renamed.

Miss World Germany: MGC

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
1992 Carina Jope Miss Hessen World ?
1993 Petra Klein Miss Rheinland-Pfalz World ?
1994 Marte Helberg Miss Hamburg World ?
1995 Isabell Brauer Miss Baden-Württemberg World Köln
1996 Melanie Ernst Miss Baden-Württemberg World Köln
1997 Katja Glawe Miss Berlin World Berlin
1998 Sandra Ahrabian Miss Bayern World (?) Mannheim
1999 Susan Hoecke Miss Berlin World München

German Miss World: MGC

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2000/01 Natascha Berg Miss Hessen World Hannover
2001/02 Adina Wilhelmi Miss Süddeutschland World Hannover

Miss World Deutschland

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2008 Anne Katrin Walter Kiel Erfurt
2009 Alessandra Alores Köln Moers

Beauty Queen of Germany: MGC

Year Name
2000 Agnes Glowacki

Beauty-Queen of Germany: BQOG-Management

Year Name
2004/05 Nadine Trompka

Queen of Germany: MGC

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
1999 Julienne Grötsch Queen of Thüringen Rothenburg ob der Tauber
2000 pageant not held
2001 Pamela Jones ? Bamberg [2][3]
2002 Claudia Grohmann ? Bamberg
2003 Melanie Eder Queen of Bayern (?) München
2004 Ann-Cathrin Schmidt Queen of Sachsen-Anhalt (?) Berlin

Queen of Germany: QGE - Queen of Germany Entertainment (Neuhardenberg, near Frankfurt/Oder)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2000 Yvetta Leogrande Queen of Niedersachsen TV-Studio Sat.1
2001-04 ?
2005 Stephanie Schießl Queen of Bayern ?
2006 Alis Scharkoi Queen of Berlin Weimar Atrium
2007 Katrin Schwarz Queen of Niedersachsen Duisburg

Miss Millennium Deutschland: MGF - Miss Germany Foundation (Barby, Sachsen-Anhalt)

Year Name
2000 Nadin Becker

Princess of Germany: Princess Entertainment & Media Group (Barby, Sachsen-Anhalt)

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2001 Mirjana Bogojevic ? Halle
2002 Nicole Kratochvil Princess of Niedersachsen Halle
2003 Katrin Reimann ? ? ?
2004 Josephina Balasus Princess of Sachsen-Anhalt Leipzig

Princess Entertainment is successor of MGF (renamed because the title Miss Germany must not be used any longer). – The pageants concentrate on the new (eastern) lands of the Federal Republic.

Note: Mirjana Bogojevic had been elected also as Miss Germany of MGC in 2001.

Top Model of Germany: MGA/MGO Komitee Miss Deutschland (Bergheim near Cologne)

Year Name
1993-99 ?
2000 Heike Schmidt

Top Model of Germany: Yet-Set Corporation (Cologne)

Year Name
2001 Daniela Dürr
2002-04 ?
2005 Sarah Zöllner

This pageant was promoted by MGA and MGO from 1993 to 2000. In 2001, Yet-Set Corporation in Cologne claims title protection (Titelschutz) according to German law (§ 5 Abs. 3 MarkenG).

Model of the World Germany

Year Name Qualified as Site of election
2001 Karin Gillich Model of the World Bayern Ulm
2002 Evelina Janke Model of the World Bremen München
2003 Stephanie Thier Model of the World Bayern Wiesbaden
2004 Daniela Domröse Model of the World Süddeutschland Neunkirchen
2005/06 Hana Nitsche Model of the World Rheinland-Pfalz Regensburg
2007 Natalie Sulianto Model of the World Mitteldeutschland München
2008 Sandra Klinker Model of the World Bremen München

Miss Allemagne: Yet-Set Corporation (Cologne)

For this pageant Yet-Set Corporation in Cologne also claims title protection in 2001. For winners' names there are contradictory information: In 2001, both Jennifer Dietrich and Eileen Bali are named. In 2003, the pageant happened in Kiel (winner unknown). It seems to have been the last edition.

Miss pageants in the GDR

Miss DDR and predecessors (1986-1988 private events, 1990 MGC)

Year Name Site of election Title
1986 Katrin Gawenda Berlin Miss Frühling (Miss Spring)
1987 Cornelia Franzke Berlin Miss Frühling (Miss Spring)
1988 Gabi Kirmihs Berlin Miss Sommer (Miss Summer)
1990 Leticia Koffke Schwerin Miss DDR (Miss GDR)

Note: Leticia Koffke later became Miss Germany for united Germany.

Titles at major international competitions

Miss World

Miss Universe

Miss International

Miss Intercontinental

Queen of the World

Miss Europe

Miss Grand International

Year Miss Grand Germany Placement Special Awards
Thailand 2014 Johanna Acs Unplaced

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Caroline Noeding Crowned Miss Germany 2013". Beauty Pageant News. February 22, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
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  3. ↑ Fränkischer Tag Bamberg. 2001. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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