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1951 In Germany
Events in the year 1951 in West Germany and East Germany. Incumbents West Germany *President – Theodor Heuss *Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer East Germany *Head of State – Wilhelm Pieck *Head of Government – Otto Grotewohl Events * April 29 - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1951 * June 5 - East German referendum, 1951 * June 6 to 17 - 1st Berlin International Film Festival Births *1 January - Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver *4 January - Richard Oetker, German businessman *8 January - Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer *28 January - Karl Honz, German athlete *16 February - Franz-Josef Bode, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück * 4 March - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician * 24 March - Monika Stolz, German politician *30 March - Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer *1 April - Johanna Wanka, German politician *9 April - Monika Piel, German journalist *17 April - Horst Hrubesch, German football player *18 May - Angela Voigt, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 October 1990. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed as a political entity during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The FRG's provisional capital was the city of Bonn, and the Cold War era country is retrospectively designated as the Bonn Republic. At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern blocs. Germany was divided into the two countries. Initially, West Germany claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Germany, representing itself as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz-Josef Bode
Franz-Josef Hermann Bode (16 February 1951) is German prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany, since 1995. He has been a bishop since 1991 and Deputy Chairman of the German Bishops Conference since 2017. Within that Conference, he is considered one of the strongest advocates of expanding the role of women in the Church. Biography Bode was born in Paderborn, Germany, on 16 February 1951. He was ordained a priest on 13 December 1975 for the Archdiocese of Paderborn. On 5 June 1991 he was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn and titular Bishop of Mattiana. He received his episcopal consecration on 1 September 1991 from Johannes Joachim Degenhardt and co-consecrators Hans Leo Drewes and Paul Consbruch. On 12 September 1995 he was appointed Bishop of Osnabrück and was installed on 26 November 1995. From 1996 to 2010, he headed the German Bishops Conference's youth commission and since 2010 he has led the pastoral commission. In September 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger ( Leutheusser; born 26 July 1951) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe. Within the FDP, she is a leading figure of the social-liberal wing. She served as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 1992 to 1996 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl and again in the second Merkel cabinet from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, the new German government announced Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger's candidacy for the office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Early life and work Sabine Leutheusser was born in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia. After graduating from gymnasium in Minden in 1970, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger started studying law in Göttingen and Bielefeld. In 1975, she passed the first state exam in Hamm, in 1978 the second state exam in Düsseldorf. From 1979 to 1990, she worked at the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt in Munich, eventually as managing direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eberhard Gienger
Eberhard Gienger (; born 21 July 1951) is a German politician ( CDU) and former West German gymnast. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter. Gymnastics career During his gymnastics career from 1971 to 1981, Gienger won 36 German championship titles; one gold and three silver medals in world championships; three gold, two silver and two bronze medals in European championships, and one Olympic bronze medal. Gienger was an outstanding high bar artist: He won the European Championships in 1973, 1975 and 1981; he won gold in the 1974 World Championships, and won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympic Games. For these feats he was elected German Sportsman of the Year in 1974 and 1978. The Gienger salto on the high bar and on the uneven bars is named after him. Political career Gienger was a member of the German National Olympic Committee from 1986 to 2006, and since 2006 has been the Vice President of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Seymour Mikich
Sonia Seymour Mikich (born 13 July 1951 in Oxford) is a German TV journalist. Education After studying political sciences, sociology, and philosophy from 1972–1979 at the RWTH Aachen University. She worked as research associate with the institute's Arnold-Gehlen Research Group. In 1985 she received a scholarship from the German Marshall Fund. Career * Since 1984 editor and reporter for the WDR's foreign TV broadcasting group * 1992–1998 – Correspondent in Moscow, since 1995 as first woman to serve as head of the broadcasting studio * 1998–2001 – Head of the ARD studio in Paris * Since 2002 chief editor and presenter of the ARD's ''Monitor'' newsmagazine * Since 2004 head of the ARD/WDR documentary magazine ''Die story'', WDR TV, Cologne * Since 2012 moderator of weekly talk show ''Presseclub'' * 2014–2018 – Editor-in-Chief, WDR TV, Cologne Her work as chronicler of the First Chechen War in Moscow was awarded in 1998 with the Bundesverdienstkreuz. On 17 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Milser
Rolf Milser (born 28 June 1951) is a retired German weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift .... He competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1984 Olympics, missing the 1980 Games due to their boycott by West Germany, and won the gold medal in the heavyweight I class in 1984. Milser won two world titles (in 1978 and 1984, combined with the Olympics) and set two world records in the clean & jerk, in 1976 and 1979. He also won a European title in 1979. chidlovski.net References 1951 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Rüttgers
Jürgen Rüttgers (born 26 June 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the 9th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010. Education Rüttgers was born in Cologne. He holds degrees in Law and History from the University of Cologne and a Dr. Jur. (Ph.D.) in Law (1979). He became a member of K.D.St. V. Rappoltstein Köln, a Catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband. Political career Career in national politics Rüttgers was a Member of the German Bundestag from 1987 until 2000. In 1991 he succeeded Friedrich Bohl as First Secretary of the parliamentary group, in this position assisting the parliamentary group's chairman Wolfgang Schäuble. Rüttgers served as Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's fifth cabinet from 1994 to 1998. During his time as minister, he was – together with Luigi Berlinguer (Italy), Claude Allegre (France), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Germany
Events in the year 2013 in Germany. Incumbents Federal level * President: Joachim Gauck * Chancellor: Angela Merkel State level * Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann * Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer * Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit * Minister-President of Brandenburg – Matthias Platzeck * Mayor of Bremen – Jens Boehrnsen * Mayor of Hamburg – Olaf Scholz * Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier * Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering * Minister-President of Niedersachsen – David McAllister (until 18 February), Stephan Weil * Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft * Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck (until 16 January), Malu Dreyer * Minister-President of Saarland – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer * Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich * Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Reiner Haseloff * Minister-President of Schleswig- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Voigt
Angela Voigt, née Schmalfeld (18 May 1951 – 11 April 2013) was an East German long jumper. Biography Voigt was born in Weferlingen, in what was then East Germany, on 18 May 1951. She was originally a pentathlete, and finished third and second at the East German championships in 1972 and 1973. Because of injuries she eventually concentrated on the long jump only. She finished fourth at the 1974 European Championships. Voigt set a long jump world record of 6.92 metres at Dresden on 9 May 1976 but it was broken ten days later by Siegrun Siegl. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics Siegl finished fourth while Voigt won the gold with a leap of 6.72 metres. Kathy McMillan, who eventually finished second, had a longer jump which was deemed a foul. At the 1978 European Championships Voigt won a silver medal, having given birth to a son the previous year. 6.92 m remained her career best jump, and today this places her ninth on the German all-time performers list, behind Heike Drechsler, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Hrubesch
Horst Hrubesch (; born 17 April 1951) is a German professional football manager and former player who last managed Hamburger SV. As a player, Hrubesch won three West German championships with his club side, Hamburger SV, as well as the European Cup title in 1983. He was a key member of the West Germany team that made it to the final of the 1982 World Cup, losing to Italy. His nickname was ''Das Kopfball-Ungeheuer'' (the Header Beast) for his heading skills as a centre forward. Club career Hrubesch played in small clubs until the age of 24 when he was signed by Rot-Weiss Essen. There, he played well enough that in 1978 Hamburger SV (HSV) bought him. At Hamburg he blossomed into one of the most productive forwards of the Bundesliga and was soon called up for the West German national team. Hrubesch formed an attacking partnership with fellow HSV player Manfred Kaltz, a right wingback whose crosses Hrubesch often headed in, or headed to teammates to provide them with scoring chances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Piel
Monika Piel (born 9 April 1951 in Bensberg) is a German television journalist and radio journalist. Life and career Piel studied Business economics in Cologne. Afterwards she studied Jura and Oriental Studies without graduating. During her studies she worked as an assistant at the panel discussion ''Der Internationale Frühschoppen'' under Werner Höfer. From 1979 to 1989 she worked as an editor and presenter for the current radio magazines of WDR 2. From 1982 to 1984 she worked for WDR as a freelance journalist in Portugal. From 1989 to 1993 Piel was a radio correspondent for economic and financial policy at the WDR studio in Bonn. She then spent a year as head of the radio programme group for business, agriculture, environment and transport. In 1994 she was appointed as an editor-in-chief of radio and became a program director at WDR 2. From the end of 1997 to 2007 she was radio director of WDR and from 2001 to 2003 she headed the ARD Radio Commission. On 1 April 2007, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Wanka
Johanna Wanka (''née'' Müller; born 1 April 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister for Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. From 2000 to 2009, she served as Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg, then from 2010 to 2013 she served as Minister of Science and Culture of the state of Lower Saxony, in the Cabinet McAllister. Early life and education Wanka was born on 1 April 1951. She attended the Polytechnic Secondary School in Großtreben and the advanced school in Torgau before studying mathematics at Leipzig University in the GDR. From 1974 on, she was a research assistant at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, where she received her doctorate in 1980. In 1993 she became professor of engineering mathematics at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences. In March 1994, she was elected rector of that university, a position s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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