1919 in Germany
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Events in the year 1919 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Vacant to 11 February, then Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats)
- Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) ("Head of Government") to 11 February, then Philipp Scheidemann (Social Democrats) to 20 June, then Gustav Bauer (Social Democrats)
Events
- The Spartacist uprising started on January 5 and ended on January 15.
- The Weimar Republic was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
- 19 January - German federal election, 1919
- 13 February - Scheidemann cabinet was sworn in.
- 29 March - University of Hamburg was established.
- 21 June - Bauer cabinet was sworn in.
- Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr.[1]
- Date unknown - Betz's law was published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
- Date unknown - Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG was founded in Munich.
Births
- January 29 - Konrad Hesse, German judge (died 2005)
- March 3 - Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt (died 2010)
- April 6 - Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died 2010)
- May 16 - Albert Osswald, German politician (died 1996)
- July 8 - Walter Scheel, German politician (died 2016)
- August 1 - Artur Brauner, German film producer
- August 30 - Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (died 2010)
- September 22 - Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999)
- September 29 - Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017)
- October 7 - Annemarie Renger, German politician (died 2008)
- November 9 - John Herberger, German football player and coach (died 2002)
- November 10 - Kurt Schmücker, German politician (died 1996)
- November 30 - Detlef Kraus, pianist (died |2008)
- December 31 - Artur Fischer, German inventor (died 2016)
Deaths
- January 4 - Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1843)
- January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (born 1871)
- January 26 — Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran (born 1888)
- January 28 - Franz Mehring, German politician (born 1846)
- February 21 - Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic (born 1867)
- February 21 - Louis Tuaillon, German sculptor (born 1862)
- March 24 - Franz Metzner, German sculptor (born 1870)
- March 25 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (born 1881)
- May 28 - Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist (born 1845)
- June 7 - Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (born 1853)
- July 2 - Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor (born 1848)
- July 15 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1852)
- July 19 - Walter Brack, German swimmer (born 1880)
- August 2 — Otto Kissenberth, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- August 9 - Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician (born 1834)
- August 13 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
- August 24 - Friedrich Naumann, German politician (born 1860)
- November 7 - Hugo Haase, German politician (born 1863)
- November 11 - Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1851)
- November 29 - Fritz Schaper, German sculptor (born 1841)
References
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