1919 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Vacant to 11 February, then Friedrich Ebert Chancellor
• Friedrich Ebert to 11 February, then Philipp Scheidemann to 20 June, then Gustav Bauer

  Events

• 5–15 January – Spartacist uprising
• 19 January – German federal election, 1919
• 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
• 29 March – University of Hamburg is established.
• 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
• 28 June – The Weimar Republic is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
• 12 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.

  Undated

• Betz's law is 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.
• Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.

  Births

• 29 January – Konrad Hesse, German judge
• 6 March – Michael Karkoc, German war criminal
• 27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian
• 3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt
• 6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor
• 23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress
• 3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist
• 16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician
• 7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist
• 8 July – Walter Scheel, German politician
• 31 August – Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic
• 30 August – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director
• 5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor
• 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director
• 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer
• 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician
• 9 November – John Herberger, German football player and coach
• 10 November – Kurt Schmücker, German politician
• 14 November – Lisa Otto, German soprano
• 30 November – Detlef Kraus, German pianist
• 31 December – Artur Fischer, German inventor

  Deaths

• 4 January – Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
• 15 January – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician
• 26 January – Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran
• 28 January – Franz Mehring, German politician
• 21 February:
• * Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic
• * Louis Tuaillon, German sculptor
• 24 March – Franz Metzner, German sculptor
• 25 March – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor
• 28 May – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist
• 7 June – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral
• 2 July – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor
• 15 July – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist
• 19 July – Walter Brack, German swimmer
• 2 August:
• * Christoph Blumhardt, German theologian
• * Otto Kissenberth, German World War I flying ace
• * Johann von Dallwitz, German politician
• 9 August – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician
• 13 August – Karl Liebknecht, German politician
• 24 August – Friedrich Naumann, German politician
• 1 October – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess
• 7 November – Hugo Haase, German politician
• 11 November – Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
• 29 November – Fritz Schaper, German sculptor