1954 in Germany
Events in the year 1954 in Germany.Incumbents
- President – Theodor Heuss
- Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer
Events
- 18 to 29 June - 4th Berlin International Film Festival
- 4 July - Germany wins in 1954 FIFA World Cup Final
- 17 October - East German general election, 1954
- Date unknown - Wittig reaction was discovered by Georg Wittig.
- Date unknown - The Angle grinder is invented by German company ''Ackermann + Schmitt.
- Date unknown - The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.
Births
- 4 January - Birgit Havenstein, German composer
- 16 January - Wolfgang Schmidt, German track and field athlete
- 19 January - Katharina Thalbach, German actress
- 19 January - Joachim Deckarm, German handball player
- 21 January - Thomas de Maizière, German politician
- 10 February - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
- 19 February - Reiner Haseloff, German politician
- 26 February - Prince Ernst August of Hanover, German head of the deposed royal House of Hanover
- 1 March - Volker Wieker, German chief of staff of the Bundeswehr
- 6 March - Harald Schumacher, German football player
- 26 March - Jutta Speidel, German actress
- 26 March - Udo Di Fabio, German judge
- 1 April - Dieter Müller, German football player
- 9 April - Arnold Stadler, German writer
- 16 April - Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German author
- 19 April - Ingrid Peters, German singer
- 20 April - Gero von Boehm, German journalist
- 20 April - Martin Stratmann, German electrochemist and materials scientist
- 21 April - Sabine Engel, German discus thrower
- 1 May - Eckart Diesch, German sailor
- 24 May - Rainald Goetz, German author, playwright and essayist
- 8 June - Jochen Schümann, German sailor
- 10 June - Ute Frevert, German historian
- 13 June - Heiner Koch, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- 20 June - Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer and mathematician
- 3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
- 17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 25 July - Jürgen Trittin, German politician
- 28 July - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 14 August - Berthold Albrecht, German entrepreneur
- 11 October - Sascha Hehn, German actor
- 12 October - Norbert Klaar, German sport shooter
- 3 November - Siegfried Mauser, German pianist
- 25 November - Rudolf Mellinghoff, German judge
- 14 December - Eva Mattes, German actress
- 24 December - Lorenz Caffier, German politician
Deaths
- January 15 - Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician
- January 19 - Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter
- January 22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess
- February 6 - Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
- March 6 - Hermann Dietrich, German politician
- March 7 — Otto Diels, German chemist
- April 14 -Siegfried von Roedern, German politician
- May 6 - Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess
- May 19 - Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- June 14 - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor
- June 27 - Theodor Loos, German actor
- July 1 - Thea von Harbou, German actress, novelist and film director
- July 16 - Herms Niel, German composer
- August 4 - Harald Paulsen, German actor
- August 7 - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician
- August 25- Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer
- September 5 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician
- September 27 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal
- October 29 - Hermann Ehlers, German politician
- October 30 - Gustav Dahrendorf, German politician
- November 11 - Reinhold Schünzel, German actor
- November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer
- December 14 - Emil Rausch, German swimmer
- December 30 - Günther Quandt, German industrialist
- Date unknown — Franz Brandt, World War I German flying ace
