1952 in Germany

• President – Theodor Heuss • Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer == Events ==

• Liquidation of German company IG Farben started. • 25 April - The three states of Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and South Baden merge to form the modern southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg. • 26 May - Porsche Club Hohensyburg is founded. • 12 to 25 June - 2nd Berlin International Film Festival • 24 June: German newspaper BILD was founded. ==Births==

• 12 January - Florian Havemann, German judge, painter and composer • 19 January - Nadiuska, German television actress • 22 January - Aloys Wobben, German businessman • 31 January - Jan Hofer, German journalist • 13 February - Jörg Hacker, German microbiologist • 17 February - Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician • 18 February - Ulrich Eicke, German canoeist • 22 February - Thomas Wessinghage, German athlete • 3 March - Wolfgang Kubicki, German football player • 13 March - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer (died 2024) • 18 March - Michaela May, German actress • 24 March - Reinhard Genzel, German astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics • 4 April - Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper • 14 April - Udo Voigt (NPD) politician • 29 April - Barbara Hendricks, German politician • 10 May - Ulrich Hahnen, German politician • 10 May - Roland Kaiser, German singer • 12 May - Norbert Stolzenburg, German footballer and manager • 17 May - Bernhard Brink, German singer • 2 June - Hildegard Krekel, German actress (died 2013) • 12 June - Cornelia Hanisch, German fencer • 25 June - Klaus Teuber, German board game designer (died 2023) • 26 July - Heiner Brand, German handball player • 28 July - Cordt Schnibben, German author and journalist • 3 August - Axel Schäfer, German politician • 6 August - Christoph Biemann, German writer • 19 August • Gabriela Grillo, German equestrian, Olympic champion (1976 (died 2024) • Bodo Hombach, German politician • 29 August - Falk Hoffmann, German diver • 6 September - Dominik Graf, German film director • 21 September - Anneliese Michel, German student (died 1976) • 2 October - Peter Koslowski German philosopher and academic (died 2012) • 28 October - Thomas Dinger, German musician (died 2002) • 21 November - Corny Littmann, German entrepreneur, entertainer, theater owner • 24 November - Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author • 26 November - Jan Philipp Reemtsma, German literary scholar and political activist • 3 December - Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist and actor • 17 December - Jochen Bachfeld, German boxer • undated - Ernst Stötzner, German actor ==Deaths==

• 22 January - Alexander Behm, German physicist (born 1880) • 25 January - Aloys, 7th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German politician (born 1871) • 23 February - Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general (born 1887) • 15 April - Ludwig Kaas, German politician (born 1881) • 12 June - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (born 1869) • 3 July - Carl Tanzler, radiologic technologist (born 1877) • 4 July - Karl Platen, German actor (born 1877) • 6 July - Gertrud Wolle, German actress (born 1891) • 23 July - Carl Severing, German politician (born 1875) • 31 July - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (born 1880) • 12 August - Richard Otto, German physician (born 1872) • 13 August - Wilm Hosenfeld, officer (born 1895) • 18 December - Ernst Stromer, German paleontologist (born 1871) ==References==