1950 in Germany

Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany.

Incumbents

West Germany

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

East Germany

• First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party – Walter Ulbricht
• President – Wilhelm Pieck
• Minister-President – Otto Grotewohl

Events

• April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.
• June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.
• July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
• July 19 - The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
• August 5 - Publication of the Charter of German Expellees.
• September 7 - Schwarzwaldmädel, the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. It ushers in an era of local film in West Germany.
• September 19 - At the conference of foreign ministers of the three Western powers in New York, the federal government in Bonn was recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
• October 5–9 - Himmerod memorandum
• October 19 - East German general election, 1950

Births

• January 9 - Rio Reiser, singer (died 1996)
• January 21 - Marion Becker, athlete
• January 22 - Werner Schulz, politician (died 2022)
• January 27 - Ulrich Deppendorf, journalist
• January 30 - Reinhold Kauder, canoeist
• February 2 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
• February 8 - Manfred Milinski, biologist
• March 6 - Felix Genn, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• March 12 – Traudl Treichl, German alpine skier
• March 22 - Hugo Egon Balder, actor and comedian
• March 22 - Herman Weigel, German film producer
• April 25 - Peter Hintze, German politician (died 2016)
• April 30 - Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, German judge
• May 12 - Renate Stecher, athlete
• May 16 - Georg Bednorz, physicist
• May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk, actor and television presenter
• May 26 - Werner Bergmann, sociologist
• May 31 - Christine Kurzhals, politician (died 1998)
• June 15 - Heidi Schüller, long jumper
• June 16 - Klaus Lage, singer
• June 21 - Ferdinand Kirchhof, judge
• June 20 - Gudrun Landgrebe, actress
• July 7 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, politician
• July 27- David Storl, track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put
• August 5 - Rosi Mittermaier, alpine ski racer (died 2023)
• August 12 – Iris Berben, actress
• September 2 - Michael Rother, musician
• September 23 - Dietmar Lorenz, judoka
• October 13 - Annegret Richter, athlete
• October 28 - Annette Humpe, singer
• November 10 - Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, historian
• November 17 - Roland Matthes, swimmer
• November 28 - Hans Fassnacht, swimmer

Deaths

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