1929 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Paul von Hindenburg

• Hermann Müller

  Events

• 8-29 August - Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean.
• 31 August - The Young Plan for settling German World War I reparations is finalized.
• October - The Wall Street Crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism. The number of unemployed reaches three million.
• Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is first published in book format
• German car company Opel is taken over by American company General Motors. General Motors assumed full control in 1931.
• Date unknown - Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with German physician Werner Forssmann in 1929, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it.
• Date unknown - Styrene-butadiene was developed by German chemist Walter Bock.
• Date unknown: Steroid hormone Estrogen was isolated and purified estrone, the first estrogen to be discovered by Adolf Butenandt
• Date unknown: Rudolf Hell receives a patent for the Hellschreiber, an early fax machine.

  Births

• 3 January — Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and orchestra conductor
• 4 January - Günter Schabowski, German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• 5 January - Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church
• 9 January - Heiner Müller, dramatist
• 29 January - John Polanyi, Hungarian-Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
• 31 January - Rudolf Mössbauer, nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
• 4 February - Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist
• 18 February - Günther Schramm, German actor
• 25 February -Irmgard Oepen, German physician and medical journalist
• 9 March - Werner Grossmann, East German deputy leader of the Ministry for State Security
• 18 March - Christa Wolf, literary critic, novelist, and essayist
• 30 March -Peter Kuiper, German
• 2 April - Hans Koschnick, German politician
• 3 April - Klaus Hemmerle, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
• 8 April - Hans Korte, German actor
• 17 April - James Last, born Hans Last, bandleader
• 29 April - Walter Kempowski, German writer
• 30 April - Klausjürgen Wussow, German actor
• 1 May - Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and political scientist
• 16 May - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
• 4 June - Günter Strack, actor
• 10 June - Harald Juhnke, comedian
• 12 June - Anne Frank, born Annelies Frank, Jewish diarist
• 12 June - Eva Pflug German actress
• 18 June - Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
• 29 June - Eberhard Jäckel, historian
• 30 June - Othmar Mága, German conductor
• 22 July - Percy Borucki, German fencer
• 2 August - Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist
• 16 August - Helmut Rahn, German footballplayer
• 20 August - Lorenz Weinrich, German historian
• 8 September - Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor
• 9 September - Ruth Pfau, German physician
• 19 September - Heiner Carow, German film director and screenwriter
• 20 September - Hans von Borsody
• 20 October - Saschko Gawriloff, German violinist
• 25 October - Peter Rühmkorf, writer
• 11 November - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, writer
• 12 November - Michael Ende, writer
• 27 November - Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate
• 29 November - Xaver Unsinn ice hockey player
• 1 December - Karl Otto Pöhl, economist
• 14 December - Kurt Wünsche, politician

  Deaths

• 28 January - Hans von Plessen, general
• 29 January - Hans Prutz, historian
• 1 March - Wilhelm von Bode, German art historian
• 1 March - Ernst Oppler, painter
• 4 April - Karl Benz, automotive pioneer
• 20 April - Prince Henry of Prussia, German nobleman and naval officer
• 13 May - Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer
• 18 June - Hermann Wagner, geographer
• May 13 – Arthur Scherbius, electrical engineer, mathematician, cryptanalyst and inventor
• 22 June - Alfred Brunswig, philosopher
• 5 July - Hans Meyer, geologist
• 14 July - Hans Delbrück, historian
• 15 July - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, poet, dramatist and novelist
• 3 October - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923-29, Nobel laureate
• 8 October - Max Lehmann, historian
• 26 October - Aby Warburg, art historian
• 28 October - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor 1900-09
• 4 November - Karl von den Steinen, German explorer and physician
• 6 November - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor October–November 1918
• 10 December - Franz Rosenzweig, theologian and philosopher
• 29 December - Wilhelm Maybach, automobile designer