1970 in Germany

Events in the year 1970 in Germany. == Incumbents == 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 ==