1953 in Germany

Events in the year 1953 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * President – Theodor Heuss
 * Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

 * 12 March - 1953 Avro Lincoln shootdown incident
 * 12 April - Football team Dynamo Dresden was founded.
 * 10 May - The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.
 * 16/17 June - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
 * 18 to 20 June - 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
 * 7 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accident
 * 6 September - West German federal election, 1953
 * 20 October - The Second Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.
 * Date unknown - Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.

Births

 * January 10 - Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete
 * January 16 - Reinhard Jirgl, German writer
 * January 22 - Jürgen Pommerenke, German football player
 * January 24 - Ulrich Holbein, German writer
 * January 31 - Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, German judge
 * March 1 - Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower
 * March 14 - Christian von Ditfurth, German historian
 * March 24 - Mathias Richling, German comedian
 * February 25 - Martin Kippenberger, German artist (died 1997)
 * April 10 - Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
 * May 11 - Thomas Middelhoff, German manager
 * May 18 - Ute Kircheis-Wessel, German fencer
 * June 20 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (died 2007)
 * June 23 - Michael Eichberger, German judge
 * July 23 - Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, German weightlifter
 * July 26 - Felix Magath, German footballer and football trainer
 * July 30 - Heribert Prantl, German journalist
 * August 17 - Andreas Kirchner, German Winter sportsman (died 2010)
 * August 17 - Herta Müller, German writer
 * August 27 - Gabriele Haefs, translator.
 * August 29 - Rainer Pottel, German decathlete
 * September 2 - Gerhard Thiele, German astronaut
 * September 21 - Reinhard Marx, German cardinal of the Catholic Church
 * November 7 - Ottfried Fischer, German actor
 * November 16 - Brigitte Zypries, German politician
 * October 1 - Klaus Wowereit, German politician
 * October 10 - Martin Viessmann, German businessman
 * October 15 - Günther Oettinger, German politician
 * December 11 - Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist (died 2014)
 * December 23 - Rüdiger, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman
 * December 26 - Henning Schmitz, German musician
 * December 29
 * Thomas Bach, 9th president of the IOC
 * Matthias Platzeck, German politician

Deaths

 * 28 January - Theophil Wurm, German leader in the German Protestant Church in the early twentieth century (born 1868)
 * 20 January - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (born 1913)
 * 24 February - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875)
 * 28 March - Alfred Philippson, German geographer (born 1864)
 * 2 April - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (born 1885)
 * 20 April - Erich Weinert, German writer (born 1890)
 * 12 May - Fritz Mackensen, German painter (born 1866)
 * 18 May - Rudolf Nadolny, German diplomat (born 1873)
 * 21 May - Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician (born 1871)
 * 31 July - Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (born 1884)
 * 13 August - Paul Kemp, German actor (born 1896)
 * 15 August - Ludwig Prandtl, German engineer (born 1875)
 * 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (born 1884)
 * 29 September- Ernst Reuter, German politician (born 1889)
 * 27 October — Eduard Künneke, German composer (born 1885)