Events in the year 1928 in Germany.
Incumbents National level
President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan) Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (to 28 June), Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (from 28 June)
Events May - October – Pressa held in Cologne 20 May – 1928 German federal election 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor
Births 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990) 3 January – Klaus Schulze, Olympic rower (d. 2013) 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019) 16 January – Manfred Schukowski, astronomer (d. 2025) 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023) 31 January - Michael Degen, actor (d. 2022) 16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman (d. 2024) 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (d. 2020) 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (d. 2021) 6 April – Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2019) 8 April Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024) Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000) 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022) 15 April – Paul Butzer, German mathematician (d. 2026) 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015) 29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)Heinz Wolff obituary 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)ARD-Urgestein Peter Merseburger gestorben 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024) 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022) 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor (d. 2017) 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (d. 2014) 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher (d. 2024) 28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian (d. 2024) 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011) 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021) 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013) 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (d. 1995) 12 November Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank (d. 2022) Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)
Deaths 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851) 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857) 27 February Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (born 1860) Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856) 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874) 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864) 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858) 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)
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