1970 in Germany

• President – Gustav Heinemann • Chancellor – Willy Brandt == Events ==

• 16 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 • Willy Brandt (SPD), West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (19 March) and in Kassel (21 May) - the start of a new Ostpolitik (new eastern policy) • 26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which is agreed on 3 September 1971) • 26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival • 12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed. • 1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloyd • 7 December – Warschauer Kniefall Landtag Elections • 22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg • 14 June: • Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel (SPD) forms his second cabinet • Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia (the SPD-FDP-coalition keeps its majority; MP Heinz Kühn forms his second cabinet) • Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder (CDU) forms his fourth cabinet. == Births ==

• 15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer • 23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician • 28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress • 29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer • 2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician • 5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter • 15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist • 18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut • 20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian • 18 April • Heike Friedrich, German swimmer • Esther Schweins, German comedian • 20 April • Sven Benken, German footballer and manager • Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman (died 2022) • 25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist • 27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman • 7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician • 20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician • 29 June – Edda Mutter, German alpine skier • 6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (died 2016) • 25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model • 8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist (died 2022) • 6 October – Corinna May, German singer • 16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager • 15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete ==Deaths==

• 5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (born 1882) • 27 January – Erich Heckel, German painter (born 1883) • 30 January – Fritz Bayerlein, German general (born 1899) • 16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor (born 1885) • 30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1885) • 3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (born 1897) • 9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician (born 1902) • 12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1891) • 3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician (born 1877) • 6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general (born 1893) • 17 July – Ernst Wellmann, army officer (born 1904) • 19 July – Egon Eiermann, architect (born 1904) • 1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate (born 1883) • 10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (born 1918) • 25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (born 1898) • 2 October – Grethe Weiser, German actress (born 1903) • 3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1885) • 4 October - Jella Lepman, German journalist, author and translator (born 1891) • 4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist (born 1885) • 14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (born 1876) ==References==