1950 in Germany

Events

April 30 - The last Ration stamps (for sugar) expire in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps were still in use until 1958.
June 5 - German broadcaster ARD started.
July 6 - Treaty of Zgorzelec was signed between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR).
July 19 - The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
August 5 - Publication of the Charter of German Expellees.
September 7 - Schwarzwaldmädel, the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. It ushers in an era of local film in West Germany.
September 19 - At the conference of foreign ministers of the three Western powers in New York, the federal government in Bonn was recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
October 5-9 - Himmerod memorandum
October 19 - East German general election, 1950

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Deaths

8 February - Arthur Kampf, German painter (born 1864)
9 February - Franz Justus Rarkowski, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1873)
12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)
3 March - Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (born 1886)
11 March - Heinrich Mann, German writer (born 1871)
3 April - Kurt Weill, German composer (born 1900)^[2]
22 April - Günther Rüdel, German general (born 1883)
27 April — Karl Straube, German organist (born 1873)^[3]
2 May — Paul Eugen Sieg, physicist and writer (born 1899)
3 May — August Marahrens, German Protestant bishop who served as Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (born 1875)
29 May — Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (born 1884)
29 June — Melitta Bentz, German inventor and entrepreneur (born 1873)
1 September - Fritz Kampers, German actor (born 1891)
10 October - Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (born 1894)
1 November - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (born 1876)
2 November - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (born 1886)
8 November — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist (born (1873)
30 November - Werner Haase, German surgeon (born 1900)
21 December - Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1880)
27 December — Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (born 1884)

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Incumbents