1956 in Germany

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Decades:

1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s

Incumbents

President – Theodor Heuss
Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Births

5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
7 January - Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
24 July - Carmen Nebel, television presenter
24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
5 December - Klaus Allofs, footballplayer

Deaths

13 January - Lyonel Feininger (born 1871)
20 February - Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born 1881)
26 February - Rudolf Kanzler.surveyor and politician (born 1873)
13 April - Emil Nolde (born 1867)
7 July - Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born 1886)
14 August - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (born 1898)
25 December - Robert Walser, German writer (born 1878)

References

Years in Germany (1871–present)

1956 in Europe

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