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20 March – Michael Pfleghar, German film director and screenwriter (died 1991) 7 April – Johannes Schaaf, German film and theatre director (died 2019) 15 May – Ursula Schleicher, German politician and harpist; 29 May – Helmuth Rilling, German choral conductor; 8 June – Ernst W. Hamburger, German-born Brazilian physicist (died 2018)
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
13 January — A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. [1]15 February — The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.
March 22 – Germany begins regular television service in Berlin (Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk), from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, using a 180-line electronic television system. It is generally only seen in public viewing rooms seating 30 people each.
However, long-held sentiments against France remained entrenched, with very few sympathizing openly with France. When the 15-year-term was over, a plebiscite was held in the territory on 13 January 1935: 90.3% of those voting wished to join Germany. On 17 January 1935, the territory's re-union with Germany was approved by the League Council.
The Timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial ...
Nazi Germany (1933–1945) Berlin was the capital city of Nazi Germany (12) Heinrich Sahm (1877–1939) 30 January 1935 18 December 1935 322 Nazi Party – Oskar Maretzky (1881–1945) Acting: 19 December 1935 5 January 1937 383 Nazi Party (Not party-member) 13 Julius Lippert (1895–1956) 5 January 1937 1 July 1940 1273 Nazi Party: 14 Ludwig ...
It was the first of a series of referendums held by the German cabinet under Chancellor Adolf Hitler, after the cabinet conferred upon itself the ability to hold referendums on 14 July 1933. [ 3 ] The referendum question was on a separate ballot from the one used for the elections.