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List of events
Events in the year 1956 in
Germany.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 5 January -
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
- 7 January
- 21 January -
Jürgen Kehrer, author
- 16 February -
Bodo Ramelow, politician
- 25 February -
Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
- 27 February -
Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer
- 28 March -
Evelin Jahl, discus thrower
- 20 March -
Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher
- 12 April -
Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
- 4 May -
Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
- 18 May -
Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (died
2017)
- 31 May -
Fritz Hilpert, German musician
- 1 June –
Petra Morsbach, German author
[2]
- 3 June -
Thomas Flach, German sailor
- 6 June -
Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete
- 8 June -
Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 4 July -
Bettina Böttinger, television presenter
- 13 July -
Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
- 24 July
- 1 August -
Axel Milberg, actor
- 12 August -
Brigitte Kraus, athlete
- 18 August -
Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- 24 August -
Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
- 21 September -
Joachim Herrmann, politician
- 24 September -
Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
- 26 September -
Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist
- 30 September -
Désirée Nick, actress and comedian
- 3 October -
Ralph Morgenstern, actor
- 6 October -
Rüdiger Helm, canoeist
- 20 November -
Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
- 23 November -
Karin Guthke, Olympic diver
[3]
- 28 November -
Michael Eissenhauer, art historian
- 30 November -
Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer
- 5 December -
Klaus Allofs, football player
- 9 December -
Henriette Reker, politician
Deaths
-
1 January —
Ludwig Dürr, German
airship designer (born
1878)
-
3 January —
Joseph Wirth, German politician,
Chancellor of Germany (born
1879)
-
13 January —
Lyonel Feininger, German painter (born
1871)
-
7 February -
Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (born
1890)
-
20 February —
Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born
1881)
-
26 February —
Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician (born
1873)
-
21 March -
Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (born
1884)
-
13 April —
Emil Nolde, German painter (born
1867)
-
16 April —
Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist (born
1873)
-
29 April -
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born
1876)
-
10 May -
F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (born
1879)
-
22 May -
Walther Kossel, German physicist (born
1888)
-
29 May —
Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (born
1883)
-
8 June -
Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (born
1881)
-
17 June –
Paul Rostock, German surgeon (born
1892)
-
7 July —
Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born
1886)
-
14 August:
-
21 August -
Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born
1891)
-
12 September -
Hans Carossa, German novelist (born
1878)
-
13 October -
Robert Lehr, German politician (born
1883)
-
2 November -
Leo Baeck, German rabbi (born
1873)
-
13 November -
Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (born
1927)
-
15 November –
Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born
1888)
[4]
-
25 December —
Robert Walser, German writer (born
1878)
See also
References
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