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National level

President - vacant, Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) (from 11 February)

Chancellor - Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) ("Head of Government") (to 11 February), Philipp Scheidemann (Social Democrats) (to 20 June), Gustav Bauer (Social Democrats) (from 21 June)

Events

5–15 January – Spartacist uprising
19 January – German federal election, 1919
13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
29 March – University of Hamburg is established.
21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
28 June – The Weimar Republic is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively ended World War I.
12 September – Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.^[1]

Undated

Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicist Albert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
Forbo Movement Systems, a manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts is founded.^[2]
Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.

Births

29 January – Konrad Hesse, German judge (died 2005)
6 March – Michael Karkoc, German war criminal (died 2019)
27 March – Peter Selz, German-born art historian (died 2019)
3 March – Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt (died 2010)
6 April – Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died 2010)
23 April – Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress (died 2021)
3 May – Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist (died 2023)
16 May – Albert Osswald, German politician (died 1996)
19 June - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010)
7 July – Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (died 2010)
8 July – Walter Scheel, German politician (died 2016)
29 July – Kunigunde Bachl, German physician and politician (died 1994)
31 August – Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic (died 2018)
30 August – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (died 2010)
5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died 1945)
22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999)
29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017)
3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist (died 2020)
7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician (died 2008)
6 November – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter and Catholic martyr (died 1943)^[3]
9 November – John Herberger, German football player and coach (died 2002)
10 November – Kurt Schmücker, German politician (died 1996)
14 November – Lisa Otto, German soprano (died 2013)
30 November – Detlef Kraus, German pianist (died 2008)
31 December – Artur Fischer, German inventor (died 2016)

Deaths

4 January – Georg von Hertling, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1843)
15 January – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (born 1871)
15 January – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
26 January – Hermann von Bönninghausen, German athlete and World War I veteran (born 1888)
28 January – Franz Mehring, German politician (born 1846)
21 February:
- Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic (born 1867)
- Louis Tuaillon, German sculptor (born 1862)
24 March – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (born 1870)
25 March – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (born 1881)
28 May – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel German anatomist and histopathologist (born 1845)
7 June – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (born 1853)
2 July – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur and inventor (born 1848)
15 July – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1852)
19 July – Walter Brack, German swimmer (born 1880)
2 August:
- Christoph Blumhardt, German theologian (born 1842)
- Otto Kissenberth, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- Johann von Dallwitz, German politician (born 1855)
9 August – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, naturalist, philosopher and physician (born 1834)
24 August – Friedrich Naumann, German politician (born 1860)
1 October – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
7 November – Hugo Haase, German politician (born 1863)
11 November – Felix von Hartmann, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1851)
29 November – Fritz Schaper, German sculptor (born 1841)

References

^ "Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913–1919".
^ www.forbo-siegling.com Forbo-Siegling
^ Jakob Knab: Die innere Vollendung der Person. Christoph Probst. In: Detlef Bald, Jakob Knab (Hrsg.): Die Stärkeren im Geiste. Zum christlichen Widerstand der Weißen Rose. Essen 2012. (in German)

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