1930 in Germany

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Events in the year 1930 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• President - Paul von Hindenburg
• Chancellor - Hermann Müller (to 27 March), Heinrich Brüning (from 30 March)

State level

• Minister-President of Anhalt - Heinrich Deist
• President of the Republic of Baden - Franz Josef Wittemann
• Minister-President of Bavaria - Heinrich Held
• Minister-President of the Republic of Brunswick - Heinrich Jasper then Werner Küchenthal
• President of Hesse - Bernhard Adelung
• Chairman of Lippe - Heinrich Drake
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Karl Eschenburg
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
• Prime Minister of the Republic of Oldenburg - Eugen von Finckh then Friedrich Cassebohm
• Minister-President of the Free State of Prussia - Otto Braun
• Minister-President of Saxony - Wilhelm Bünger (to 18 February) then Walther Schieck
  (from 6 May)
• State Councillor of Schaumburg-Lippe - Heinrich Lorenz
• Minister-President of Thuringia - Erwin Baum
• President of the Free People's State of Württemberg - Eugen Bolz

• Mayor of Berlin - Arthur Scholtz
• Martin Donandt [de
  ]
• Mayor of Hamburg - Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Roß
• Mayor of Lübeck - Paul Löwigt

Events

• 23 January - The Nazi Party gains its first minister as Wilhelm Frick becomes Minister of the Interior and Education in Thuringia as part of a right-wing coalition administration.^[1]
• 27 March - The government of Hermann Müller collapses.^[1]
• 30 March - A right of centre minority government takes office under Heinrich Brüning.^[1]
• 22 June - The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of Saxony
• 30 June - The French Army withdraws its troops from the Rhineland.^[1]
• Presidential Decree in order to force through its economic reforms.^[1]
• 18 July - The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) force through a vote against the rule by decree resulting in the dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections.^[1]
• July - The German State Party is formed by a merger of the German Democratic Party and the Young German Order.
• 13 August - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin
  is established.
• federal election sees the SPD remain as the biggest party but with the Nazis jumping into second place. Smaller gains are enjoyed by the Communist Party of Germany, the Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party and the Centre Party whilst the main losers are the German National People's Party and the German People's Party.^[2]

• anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.^[1]
• Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt Weill's Der Jasager, Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen.
• comedy novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo
  is published.
• Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred Rosenberg, publishes its first issue.

Communications

• 12 September - Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.^[1]

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is won by Hans Fischer.
• The IG Farben Building, the headquarters of the chemical company IG Farben, is completed in Frankfurt.

Sport

• 8 June - Albert Leidmann takes silver in the Light-Heavyweight division at the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships
  .
• World Heavyweight Championships.^[3] Schmeling is the first German World Heavyweight Champion under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.^[4]
• 27 July - The 3rd Chess Olympiad is held in Hamburg
  with the hosts finishing third.
• German football champions after defeating Holstein Kiel
  in the final.
• The 1930 European Figure Skating Championships are held in Berlin.

Transport

• 22 January - Monte Cervantes struck a rock off Ushuia, Chile
  and sank with the loss of her captain.
• 26 July - The cargo schooner Nobiskrug is launched from Rendsburg
  harbour.
• 5 October - The Junkers Ju 52
  makes its maiden flight.
• The airship
  South Atlantic
  .
• The luxury car Mercedes-Benz 770 begins production.

Births

• 2 January - Gerhard Geise, mathematician (died 2010
  )
• 4 January - Christoph Albrecht, organist (died 2016
  )
• 9 January
  • Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist (died 2000)
  • CDU politician (died 2012
    )
• 11 January - Hartmut Gründler, protester who committed self-immolation (died 1977
  )
• 12 January - Klaus Scholder, ecclesiastical historian (died 1985
  )
• 21 January - Günter Lamprecht, German actor (died 2022
  )
• 26 January - Reinhart Hummel, theologian (died 2007
  )
• 28 January - Kurt Biedenkopf
  , CDU politician
• 30 January
  • Alfred Herrhausen, banker (died 1989)
  • Egon Klepsch, German politician (died 2010)
• 31 January - Evelyn Richter, German art photographer (died 2021)^[5]
• 8 February
  • Erich Böhme, journalist and broadcaster (died 2009)
  • Hans Grauert, mathematician (died 2011)
• 18 February - Gerd Aretz, artist (died 2009
  )
• 21 February - Gerhard Scherhorn
  , economist
• CSU politician (died 2003
  )
• 3 March
  • Heiner Geißler, CDU politician (died 2017)
  • Hans Häckermann, German actor (died 1995)
• 8 March - Almuth Lütkenhaus, sculptor (died 1996
  )
• 10 March - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist (died 2006
  )
• 11 March - August von Finck Jr.
  , banker
• 14 March
  • Helga Feddersen, entertainer (died 1990)
  • Dieter Schnebel, composer
• 3 April - Helmut Kohl, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)^[6]
• 7 April - Andrew Sachs
  , German-born British actor
• 11 April - Walter Krüger
  , athlete
• 12 April - Gustav Scholz, German boxer (died 2000
  )
• 14 April - Martin Adolf Bormann (died 2013), priest, son of Martin Bormann and godson of Adolf Hitler
• 21 April - Eva Probst
  , actress
• 25 April - Peter Schulz, SPD politician (died 2013
  )
• 29 April - Claus Ogerman, arranger and orchestrator (died 2016
  )
• Karl-Heinz Kammerling, academic teacher of pianists (died 2012
  )
• 7 May - Horst Bienek, novelist (died 1990
  )
• 17 May - Alfons Lütke-Westhues, equestrian (died 2004
  )
• 29 May
  • Burkhard Hirsch, FDP politician
  • Ekkehard Schall, actor/director
• 3 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, astronomer (died 2006
  )
• 5 June
  • Ursula Lehr, politician (died 2022)
  • Carl Otto Lenz, lawyer and CDU politician
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate^[7]
• 10 June - Theo Sommer, newspaper editor (died 2022
  )
• 13 June - Gotthard Graubner, painter (died 2013
  )
• 22 June - Reinhold Remmert, mathematician (died 2016
  )
• 26 June - Wolfgang Schwanitz, head of the Stasi (died 2022
  )
• 27 June - Volker Vogeler, film director (died 2005
  )
• 30 June - Karl-Heinz Holze, footballer (died 2000
  )
• 6 July - Herbert Erhardt, footballer (died 2010
  )
• 14 July - Horst Rittel, design theorist (died 1990
  )
• 16 July - Horst Rittner, chess player (died 2021
  )
• 18 July - Siegfried Kurz, conductor and composer (died 2023
  )
• 20 July - Heinz Kubsch, footballer (died 1993
  )
• 23 July - Ingrid Hartmann, sprint canoer (died 2006
  )
• 28 July - Hans Schröder, sculptor and painter (died 2010
  )
• 30 July - Helmut Kirchmeyer
  , musicologist
• 4 August - Götz Friedrich, opera and theatre director (died 2000
  )
• 11 August - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer (died 2022
  )
• 16 August - Wolfgang Völz, actor (died 2018
  )
• 25 August - Rainer Zepperitz, double bassist (died 2009
  )
• 8 September - Mario Adorf
  , actor
• 19 September - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
  , judge
• 20 September - Adolf Endler
  , author
• 21 September — Fred Herzog
  , German photographer
• 24 September - Horst Sachtleben, actor (died 2022
  )
• 26 September - Fritz Wunderlich, opera singer (died 1966
  )
• 5 October - Reinhard Selten, German economist (died 2016
  )
• 11 October - Harry Glaß, German ski jumper (died 1997
  )
• 17 October
  • Freimut Börngen, German astronomer
  • Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, German historian (died 2013)
• 25 October - John Sprinzel
  , racing driver
• 1 November - Edgar Basel, German boxer (died 1977
  )
• 5 November - Hans Mommsen (died 2015) and Wolfgang Mommsen (died 2004), German historians and twin brothers^[8]
• 20 November - Rudi Felgenheier, German motorcycle racer (died 2005
  )
• Fürst von Bismarck
• 26 November - Berthold Leibinger, engineer and entrepreneur (died 2018
  )
• 27 November - Reinhard Glemnitz
  , actor
• 30 November - Eberhard Eimler
  , general
• 1 December - Joachim Hoffmann, historian (died 2002
  )
• 4 December - Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer (died 2020
  )
• 6 December - Rolf Hoppe, film actor (died 2018
  )
• 9 December - Carl-August Fleischhauer, judge (died 2005
  )
• 10 December - Avraham Ahituv, German-born Israeli intelligence chief (died 2009
  )
• 13 December - Nathan Zach
  , German-born Israeli poet
• 15 December - Günter Siebert, German football player, executive (d. 2017
  )
• 17 December
  • Erhard Geißler, biologist
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl, film actor
• 19 December - Georg Stollenwerk, footballer (died 2014
  )
• 21 December - Wolfgang Pietzsch, chess grand master (died 1996
  )
• 26 December - Wilferd Madelung, scholar of Islam
  (died 2023)
• 28 December - Franzl Lang, yodeller (died 2015
  )

• 3 January - Guglielmo Plüschow, photographer (born 1852
  )
• 14 January - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, civil servant (born 1848
  )
• 24 January - Adolf Kneser, mathematician (born 1862
  )
• 5 February - Friedrich von Duhn, classical scholar (born 1851
  )
• Bishop of Ermland (born 1862
  )
• 11 February - Franz Winter, German archaeologist (born 1861
  )
• 18 February - Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician (born 1883
  )
• 23 February - Horst Wessel, Sturmabteilung member and Nazi Party "martyr" (born 1907)^[9]
• 24 February - Hermann von Ihering, zoologist (born 1859
  )
• German Imperial Navy (born 1849
  )
• 10 March - Paul von Breitenbach, railway planner (born 1850
  )
• 31 March
  • Emil Krebs, sinologist (born 1867)
  • Mayor of Marburg (born 1836
    )
• 1 April - Cosima Wagner, founder of the Bayreuth Festival (born 1837)^[10]
• 19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster, surgeon (born 1839
  )
• Fatherland Party politician (born 1874
  )
• 29 May - Ludwig Rehn, surgeon (born 1849
  )
• 7 June - Julius Smend, theologian (born 1857
  )
• 10 June - Adolf von Harnack, theologian (born 1851
  )
• 8 July - Gustav Weigand, linguist (born 1860
  )
• 29 July
  • Theodor Axenfeld, ophthalmologist (born 1867)
  • Alexander von Fielitz, composer (born 1860)
• ISBN 9780571260966
  .
• 8 August - Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (born 1872
  )
• 10 September - Eugen Diederichs, publisher (born 1867
  )
• 20 September - Moritz Pasch, mathematician (born 1843
  )
• 24 September - Otto Mueller, painter (born 1874
  )
• 28 September - Prince Leopold of Bavaria, nobleman and Field Marshal (born 1846)^[11]
• 10 October - Adolf Engler, botanist (born 1844)^[12]
• 27 October - Alexander Baerwald, architect (born 1877
  )
• 11 November - Paul Hensel, philosopher (born 1860
  )
• 17 November - Hans Kniep, botanist (born 1881
  )
• 11 December - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Prussian Army general (born 1849)^[13]
• 30 November - Max Skladanowsky, German German inventor and early filmmaker (born 1863
  )
• Minister-President of Bavaria (born 1867
  )
• 16 December - Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley, painter (born 1839
  )
• 19 December - Conrad Willgerodt, chemist (born 1841
  )
• 24 December - Eduard David, politician (born 1863
  )
• 25 December - Eugen Goldstein, physicist (born 1850
  )