1926 in Germany

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Incumbents

National level

President

Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Chancellor

Hans Luther (German People's Party) to 12 May, then from 17 May Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (2nd term)

Events

1 January - the city of Cologne is badly hit by flooding in the River Rhine.
6 January - Deutsche Luft Hansa is formed by the merger of Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr
7 January - Deutschlandsender, a radio transmitter, is opened for the first time.
14 February - the Nazi Party hold the Bamberg Conference in an attempt to strengthen Adolf Hitler's control over the party.
20 January - Chancellor Hans Luther is forced to reconstitute his cabinet as a minority government, having lost the support of some of his partners the previous December.^[1]
19 March - Max Wolf of the University of Heidelberg discovers the asteroid 2732 Witt.^[2]
11 April - Hermannplatz railway station opens in Berlin.
24 April - Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed with the Soviet Union promising a five-year period of non-involvement if either state is attacked by a third party.
16 May - Wilhelm Marx succeeds Luther as Chancellor although otherwise the make-up of the Cabinet is not altered.^[1]
24 June - the liner Padua is launched. Other ships launched this year (all with date of launch unknown) include SS Amrum, SS Ilse L M Russ and SS Siegmund.
3 September - Funkturm Berlin radio tower is opened to the public.
8 September - Germany officially joins the League of Nations.
1 November - Joseph Goebbels is appointed Nazi Gauleiter of Berlin.^[1]
17 December - The Marx administration loses a vote of confidence and, although Marx continues as Chancellor, he does so without the involvement of previous coalition partners the German Democratic Party.^[1]

Date unknown

The National Socialist German Students' League is established.
The Old Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation are both established.
Gustav Stresemann is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with fellow architect of the Locarno Treaties Aristide Briand^[3]

Popular culture

Arts

27 March - Der Protagonist, an opera by Kurt Weill, is performed for the first time at Semperoper in Dresden.
9 November Paul Hindemith's opera Cardillac is premiered at the Staatsoper, Dresden.
14 November - Der Golem, an opera by Eugen d'Albert receives its premiere at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt.
27 November - Ernst Krenek's opera Orpheus und Eurydike premieres at the Staatstheater in Kassel.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger is released. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film.

Sport

11 July - The German Grand Prix makes its first appearance on the sporting calendar. The event is won by Rudolf Caracciola.
1. FC Nuremberg are crowned German football champions.
SV Wehen Wiesbaden and FSV 1926 Fernwald are amongst the new association football clubs set up.
Berliner RC,a Rugby Union club, are established.

Births

6 January - Walter Sedlmayr, actor
24 January - Hans-Jürgen Borchers, mathematical physicist
26 January - Kurt-Heinz Stolze, pianist
31 January - Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Archbishop of Paderborn
31 January - Horst Giese, actor
31 January - Rudi Kopp, cross country skier
31 January - Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, noblewoman
3 February - Franz Islacker, footballer
3 February - Hans-Jochen Vogel, politician
11 February - Ursula Buckel, opera singer
20 February - Adolf Bechtold, footballer
23 February - Christian Habicht, historian
11 March - Heinz Kiessling, musician
11 March - Peer Schmidt, actor
17 March - Siegfried Lenz, writer of novels, short stories and essays (died 2014)
25 March - Georg Schafer, painter and writer
18 April - Horst Käsler, handball player
18 April - Günter Meisner, actor
26 April - Michael Mathias Prechtl, artist
17 May - Franz Sondheimer, German-born Israeli-British chemist.
19 May - Peter Zadek, film director
24 May - Rudolf Kippenhahn, astrophysicist
24 May - Prince Rasso of Bavaria, nobleman
28 May - Gerhard Beil, politician
14 June - Hermann Kant, writer
21 June - Johanna Quandt, business woman (died 2015)
1 July - Hans Werner Henze, composer
2 July - Berthold Wulf, priest
4 July - Wolfgang Seidel, racing driver
12 July - Oswald Mathias Ungers, architect
15 July - Hans Frankenthal, writer and Holocaust survivor
16 July - Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist
24 July - Hans Günter Winkler, showjumper
25 July - August Lütke-Westhues, equestrian
1 August - Theo Adam, opera singer
9 August - Gustav Schmidt, sprint canoer
21 August - Ben-Zion Orgad, (German-born) Israeli composer
27 August - Karl-Heinz Heddergott, football manager
30 August - Rudi Gutendorf, footballer and manager
3 September - Rudi Arnstadt, East German border guard
3 September - Jochen Bleicken, professor of ancient history
4 September - Helmut Ringelmann, film producer
10 September - Gerda Munsinger, prostitute and alleged spy
17 September - Klaus Schütz, politician
1 October - Gerhard Stolze, opera singer
4 October - Klaus Koch, theologian
5 October - Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
14 October - Günther Schwarberg, journalist
15 October - Karl Richter, conductor
19 October - Udo Schaefer, Bahá'í author
20 October - Ursula Happe, swimmer
21 October - Leo Kirch, media entrepreneur
26 October - Bernhard Klodt, footballer
30 October - Dieter Zechlin, pianist
15 November - Alfred Biehle, politician
15 November - Helmut Fischer, actor
28 November - Eberhard von Brauchitsch, industrialist
9 December - Erhard Eppler, politician and businessman
10 December - Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, Jewish activist
19 December - Hans Henn, bobsledder
21 December - Herbert Ehrenberg, politician

Deaths

2 February - Karl von Weizsäcker, politician
4 January - Franz Stockhausen, conductor
7 January - Paul Cassirer, art dealer
29 January - Wilhelm Heitmüller, theologian
6 February - Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin, theologian
11 February - Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert, painter
20 February - Georg Friedrich Knapp, economist
28 February - Gustav Otto, aircraft engineer
24 March - Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg, nobleman
26 March - Constantin Fehrenbach, politician
4 April - August Thyssen, industrialist
21 May - Friedrich Kluge, lexicographer
23 May - Hans von Koessler, composer
5 June - Richard Wolffenstein, chemist
22 July - Otto Wilhelm Madelung, surgeon
23 July - Kurt Wüsthoff, fighter pilot
5 September - Karl Harrer, journalist and politician
15 September - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, philosopher
7 October - Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
9 October - Josias von Heeringen, Army general
15 October - Mathilde Bauermeister, opera singer
17 October - Otto Heubner, internist and pediatrician
26 November - Fritz Cassirer, conductor
2 December - Karl Joseph Eberth, pathologist
11 December - Carl Magnus von Hell, chemist

References

1 2 3 4 Tim Kirk, Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History, London, 2002, p. 421
↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 2732 Witt
↑ The Nobel Peace Prize 1926

Years in Germany (1871–present)

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