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Events in the year 1970 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (19 March) and in Kassel (21 May) - the start of a new Ostpolitik (new eastern policy)
- 26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which is agreed on 3 September 1971)
- 26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival
- 12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
- 1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloyd
- 7 December – Warschauer Kniefall
Landtag Elections
- 22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg
- 14 June:
- Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel (SPD) forms his second cabinet
- Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia (the SPD-FDP-coalition keeps its majority; MP Heinz Kühn forms his second cabinet)
- Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder (CDU) forms his fourth cabinet.
Births
- 15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer
- 23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician
- 28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress
- 29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
- 2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician
- 5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
- 15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist
- 18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut
- 20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
- 18 April
- Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
- Esther Schweins, German comedian
- 20 April
- Sven Benken, German footballer and manager
- Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman (died 2022)
- 25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist
- 27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman
- 7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
- 20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician
- 6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (died 2016)
- 25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model
- 8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist (died 2022)
- 6 October – Corinna May, German singer
- 16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager
- 15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete
Deaths
- 5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (born 1882)[1]
- 16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor (born 1885)
- 30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1885)
- 3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (born 1897)
- 9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician (born 1902)
- 12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1891)[2]
- 3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician (born 1877)
- 6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
- 1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate (born 1883)[3]
- 10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (born 1918)[4]
- 25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (born 1898)[5]
- 3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1885)
- 4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist (born 1885)
- 14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (born 1876)
References
- ↑ "Nobel prize winner dies". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Pennsylvania, U.S.). Associated Press. 6 January 1970. p. 26.
- ↑ Leo Baeck Institute (1990). Catalog of the Archival Collections. Mohr Siebeck. p. 124. ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1.
- ↑ Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
- ↑ "Bernd Aloïs Zimmermann". Dictionnaire de la musique (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ↑ Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 56: German Fiction Writers, 1914–1945. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by James Hardin, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1987. pp. 222–41.
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