1953 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

  Events

• 12 March - 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident
• 12 April - Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded.
• 16/17 June - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
• 18 to 20 June - 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
• 7 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accident
• 6 September - West German federal election, 1953
• 20 October - The Second Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.
• Date unknown - Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.

  Births

• January 10 - Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete
• January 16 - Reinhard Jirgl, German writer
• January 22 - Jürgen Pommerenke, German football player
• January 24 - Ulrich Holbein, German writer
• January 31 - Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, German judge
• March 1 - Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower
• March 14 - Christian von Ditfurth, German historian
• March 24 - Mathias Richling, German comedian
• February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, German artist
• April 10 - Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
• May 11 - Thomas Middelhoff, German manager
• May 18 - Ute Kircheis-Wessel, German fencer
• June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor
• June 23 - Michael Eichberger, German judge
• July 23 - Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, German weightlifter
• July 26 - Felix Magath, German footballer and football trainer
• July 30 - Heribert Prantl, German journalist
• August 17 - Andreas Kirchner, German Winter sportsman
• August 17 - Herta Müller, German writer
• August 27 - Gabriele Haefs, translator.
• August 29 - Rainer Pottel, German decathlete
• September 2 - Gerhard Thiele, German astronaut
• September 21 - Reinhard Marx, German cardinal of the Catholic Church
• November 7 - Ottfried Fischer, German actor
• November 16 - Brigitte Zypries, German politician
• October 1 - Klaus Wowereit, German politician
• October 10 - Martin Viessmann, German businessman
• October 15 - Günther Oettinger, German politician
• December 11 - Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist
• December 23 - Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman
• December 26 - Henning Schmitz, German musician
• December 29 - Matthias Platzeck, German politician

  Deaths

• 28 January - Theophil Wurm, German leader in the German Protestant Church in the early twentieth century
• 20 January - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
• 24 February - Gerd von Rundstedt, German Field Marshal
• 28 March - Alfred Philippson, German geographer
• 2 April - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe
• 20 April - Erich Weinert, German writer
• 12 May - Fritz Mackensen, German painter
• 18 May - Rudolf Nadolny, German diplomat
• 21 May - Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician
• 31 July - Georg Zacharias, German swimmer
• 13 August - Paul Kemp, German actor
• 15 August - Ludwig Prandtl, German engineer
• 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer
• 29 September- Ernst Reuter, German politician
• 27 October — Eduard Künneke, German composer