Events in the year 1950 in West Germany and East Germany.
Incumbents
West Germany
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)[1]
- 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 (died 2021)
- October 13 - Annegret Richter, athlete
- October 28 - Annette Humpe, singer
- November 10 - Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, historian (died 2023)
- November 17 - Roland Matthes, swimmer (died 2019)
- November 28 - Hans Fassnacht, swimmer
References
- ^ "Biographie des MdB Christine Kurzhals, SPD" [Biography of MP Christine Kurzhals, SPD] (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 2025-06-04.