Events in the year 1930 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Cities
Events
Arts
Communications
- 12 September - Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.
Science
Sport
Transport
Births
- 2 January - Gerhard Geise, mathematician (died 2010)
- 4 January - Christoph Albrecht, organist (died 2016)
- 9 January
- Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist (died 2000)
- Carl-Ludwig Wagner, 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, 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)
- 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
- 23 February - Ignaz Kiechle, CSU politician (died 2003)
- 3 March
- Heiner GeiÃÂler, 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
- 13 March - Günther Uecker, artist (died 2025)
- 14 March
- Helga Feddersen, entertainer (died 1990)
- Dieter Schnebel, composer
- 3 April - Helmut Kohl, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)
- 7 April - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (died 2016 in the United Kingdom)
- 8 April - Hans Jörg Stetter, mathematician (died 2025)
- 11 April - Walter Krüger, athlete (died 2018)
- 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)
- 28 April - Jürgen Ahrend, organ builder (died 2024)
- 29 April - Claus Ogerman, arranger and orchestrator (died 2016)
- 6 May - 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
- 8 June - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate
- 9 June - Erich Häusser, lawyer and judge (died 1999)
- 10 June - Theo Sommer, newspaper editor (died 2022)
- 13 June - Gotthard Graubner, painter (died 2013)
- 15 June - Christine Görner, actress and opera singer (died 2024)
- 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 â 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 GlaÃÂ, 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
- 20 November - Rudi Felgenheier, German motorcycle racer (died 2005)
- 22 November - Ferdinand von Bismarck, 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 GeiÃÂler, 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)
Deaths
- 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)
- 9 February - Augustinus Bludau, Bishop of Ermland (born 1862)
- 11 February - Franz Winter, German archaeologist (born 1861)
- 18 February - Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician (born 1883)
- 21 February - Heinrich Kroll, German fighter ace (b. 1894)
- 23 February - Horst Wessel, Sturmabteilung member and Nazi Party "martyr" (born 1907)
- 24 February - Hermann von Ihering, zoologist (born 1859)
- 6 March - Alfred von Tirpitz, Admiral and founder of the German Imperial Navy (born 1849)
- 10 March - Paul von Breitenbach, railway planner (born 1850)
- 31 March
- Emil Krebs, sinologist (born 1867)
- Ludwig Schüler, Mayor of Marburg (born 1836)
- 1 April - Cosima Wagner, founder of the Bayreuth Festival (born 1837)
- 19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster, surgeon (born 1839)
- 30 April - Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and 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)
- 4 August - Siegfried Wagner, composer and conductor (born 1869)
- 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)
- 10 October - Adolf Engler, botanist (born 1844)
- 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)
- 30 November - Max Skladanowsky, German German inventor and early filmmaker (born 1863)
- 15 December - Johannes Hoffmann, SPD 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)
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