1930 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• President - Paul von Hindenburg
• Chancellor - Hermann Müller, Heinrich Brüning
• Minister of Defence - Wilhelm Groener
• Minister of Economics - Robert Schmidt then Hermann R. Dietrich then Ernst Trendelenburg
• Minister of Finance - Paul Moldenhauer then Heinrich Brüning then Hermann R. Dietrich
• Minister for Foreign Affairs - Julius Curtius
• Minister of Labour - Rudolf Wissell then Adam Stegerwald
• Postal Minister - Georg Schätzel
• Minister of Transport - Adam Stegerwald then Theodor von Guérard

  State level

• Minister-President of Anhalt - Heinrich Deist
• President of the Republic of Baden - Franz Josef Wittemann
• Minister-President of Bavaria - Heinrich Held
• Minister-President of the Republic of Brunswick - Heinrich Jasper then Werner Küchenthal
• President of Hesse - Bernhard Adelung
• Chairman of Lippe - Heinrich Drake
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Karl Eschenburg
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz
• Prime Minister of the Republic of Oldenburg - Eugen von Finckh then Friedrich Cassebohm
• Minister-President of the Free State of Prussia - Otto Braun
• Minister-President of Saxony - Wilhelm Bünger then Walther Schieck
• State Councillor of Schaumburg-Lippe - Heinrich Lorenz
• Minister-President of Thuringia - Erwin Baum
• President of the Free People's State of Württemberg - Eugen Bolz

  Cities

• Mayor of Berlin - Arthur Scholtz
• Mayor of Bremen - Martin Donandt
• Mayor of Hamburg - Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Roß
• Mayor of Lübeck - Paul Löwigt

  Events

• 23 January - The Nazi Party gains its first minister as Wilhelm Frick becomes Minister of the Interior and Education in Thuringia as part of a right-wing coalition administration.
• 27 March - The government of Hermann Müller collapses.
• 30 March - A right of centre minority government takes office under Heinrich Brüning.
• 22 June - The growth of the Nazi Party continues as they become the second biggest party in the Landtag of Saxony
• 30 June - The French Army withdraws its troops from the Rhineland.
• 16 July - The government invokes Presidential Decree in order to force through its economic reforms.
• 18 July - The Social Democratic Party of Germany force through a vote against the rule by decree resulting in the dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections.
• July - The German State Party is formed by a merger of the German Democratic Party and the Young German Order.
• 13 August - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin is established.
• 14 September - The federal election sees the SPD remain as the biggest party but with the Nazis jumping into second place. Smaller gains are enjoyed by the Communist Party of Germany, the Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party and the Centre Party whilst the main losers are the German National People's Party and the German People's Party.

  Arts

• 23 February - Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front is banned in all Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick.
• Operas debuting in Germany include Kurt Weill's Der Jasager, Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen.
• Fritz Reck-Malleczewen's comedy novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo is published.
• Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, a cultural journal of the Nazi Party edited by Alfred Rosenberg, publishes its first issue.

  Communications

• 12 September - Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.

  Science

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is won by Hans Fischer.
• The IG Farben Building, the headquarters of the chemical company IG Farben, is completed in Frankfurt.

  Sport

• 4–8 June - Albert Leidmann takes silver in the Light-Heavyweight division at the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
• 12 June - Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey by disqualification in The Bronx to win the vacant New York State Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association World Heavyweight Championships. Schmeling is the first German World Heavyweight Champion under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
• 13–27 July - The 3rd Chess Olympiad is held in Hamburg with the hosts finishing third.
• Hertha BSC are crowned German football champions after defeating Holstein Kiel in the final.
• The 1930 European Figure Skating Championships are held in Berlin.

  Transport

• 22 January - struck a rock off Ushuia, Chile and sank with the loss of her captain.
• 26 July - The cargo schooner Nobiskrug is launched from Rendsburg harbour.
• 5 October - The Junkers Ju 52 makes its maiden flight.
• The airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic.
• The luxury car Mercedes-Benz 770 begins production.

  Births

• 2 January - Gerhard Geise, mathematician
• 4 January - Christoph Albrecht, organist
• 9 January
• *Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist
• *Carl-Ludwig Wagner, CDU politician
• 11 January - Hartmut Gründler, protester who commits self-immolation
• 12 January - Klaus Scholder, ecclesiastical historian
• 21 January - Günter Lamprecht, German actor
• 26 January - Reinhart Hummel, theologian
• 28 January - Kurt Biedenkopf, CDU politician
• 30 January - Alfred Herrhausen, banker
• 30 January - Egon Klepsch, German politician
• 8 February - Erich Böhme, journalist and broadcaster
• 8 February - Hans Grauert, mathematician
• 18 February - Gerd Aretz, artist
• 21 February - Gerhard Scherhorn, economist
• 23 February - Ignaz Kiechle, CSU politician
• 3 March - Heiner Geißler, CDU politician
• 3 March - Hans Häckermann, German actor
• 8 March - Almuth Lütkenhaus, sculptor
• 10 March - Fritz Schenk, broadcast journalist
• 11 March - August von Finck Jr., banker
• 14 March - Helga Feddersen, entertainer
• 14 March - Dieter Schnebel, composer
• 3 April - Helmut Kohl, CDU politician and Chancellor of Germany
• 7 April - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
• 11 April - Walter Krüger, athlete
• 12 April - Gustav Scholz, German boxer
• 14 April - Martin Adolf Bormann, priest, son of Martin Bormann and godson of Adolf Hitler
• 21 April - Eva Probst, actress
• 25 April - Peter Schulz, SPD politician
• 29 April - Claus Ogerman, arranger and orchestrator
• 6 May - Karl-Heinz Kammerling, academic teacher of pianists
• 7 May - Horst Bienek, novelist
• 17 May - Alfons Lütke-Westhues, equestrian
• 29 May - Burkhard Hirsch, FDP politician
• 29 May - Ekkehard Schall, actor/director
• 3 June - Wulff-Dieter Heintz, astronomer
• 5 June - Ursula Lehr, German politician
• 5 June - Carl Otto Lenz, lawyer and CDU politician
• 8 June - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli-American mathematician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics laureate
• 10 June - Theo Sommer, German newspaper editor
• 13 June - Gotthard Graubner, painter
• 22 June - Reinhold Remmert, mathematician
• 26 June - Wolfgang Schwanitz, head of the Stasi
• 27 June - Volker Vogeler, film director
• 29 June - Ernst Albrecht, German politician
• 30 June - Karl-Heinz Holze, footballer
• 6 July - Herbert Erhardt, footballer
• 14 July - Horst Rittel, design theorist
• 16 July - Horst Rittner, chess player
• 20 July - Heinz Kubsch, footballer
• 23 July - Ingrid Hartmann, sprint canoer
• 28 July - Hans Schröder, sculptor and painter
• 30 July - Helmut Kirchmeyer, musicologist
• 4 August - Götz Friedrich, opera and theatre director
• 11 August - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
• 16 August - Wolfgang Völz, actor
• 25 August - Rainer Zepperitz, double bassist
• 8 September - Mario Adorf, actor
• 19 September - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, judge
• 20 September - Adolf Endler, author
• 21 September — Fred Herzog, German photographer
• 24 September - Horst Sachtleben, actor
• 26 September - Fritz Wunderlich, opera singer
• 5 October - Reinhard Selten, German economist
• 11 October - Harry Glaß, German ski jumper
• 17 October - Freimut Börngen, German astronomer
• 17 October - Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, German historian
• 25 October - John Sprinzel, racing driver
• 1 November - Edgar Basel, German boxer
• 5 November - Hans Mommsen and Wolfgang Mommsen, German historians and twin brothers
• 20 November - Rudi Felgenheier, German motorcycle racer
• 22 November - Ferdinand von Bismarck, Fürst von Bismarck
• 26 November - Berthold Leibinger, engineer and entrepreneur
• 27 November - Reinhard Glemnitz, actor
• 30 November - Eberhard Eimler, general
• 1 December - Joachim Hoffmann, historian
• 6 December - Rolf Hoppe, film actor
• 9 December - Carl-August Fleischhauer, judge
• 10 December - Avraham Ahituv, German-born Israeli intelligence chief
• 13 December - Nathan Zach, German-born Israeli poet
• 15 December - Günter Siebert, German football player, executive
• 17 December - Erhard Geißler, biologist
• 17 December - Armin Mueller-Stahl, film actor
• 19 December - Georg Stollenwerk, footballer
• 21 December - Wolfgang Pietzsch, chess grand master
• 26 December - Wilferd Madelung, scholar of Islam
• 28 December - Franzl Lang, yodeller

  Deaths

• 3 January - Guglielmo Plüschow, photographer
• 14 January - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, civil servant
• 24 January - Adolf Kneser, mathematician
• 5 February - Friedrich von Duhn, classical scholar
• 9 February - Augustinus Bludau, Bishop of Ermland
• 11 February - Franz Winter, German archaeologist
• 18 February - Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician
• 23 February - Horst Wessel, Sturmabteilung member and Nazi Party "martyr"
• 24 February - Hermann von Ihering, zoologist
• 6 March - Alfred von Tirpitz, Admiral and founder of the German Imperial Navy
• 10 March - Paul von Breitenbach, railway planner
• 31 March - Emil Krebs, sinologist
• 31 March - Ludwig Schüler, Mayor of Marburg
• 1 April - Cosima Wagner, founder of the Bayreuth Festival
• 19 April - Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster, surgeon
• 30 April Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician
• 29 May - Ludwig Rehn, surgeon
• 7 June - Julius Smend, theologian
• 10 June - Adolf von Harnack, theologian
• 8 July - Gustav Weigand, linguist
• 29 July - Theodor Axenfeld, ophthalmologist
• 29 July - Alexander von Fielitz, composer
• 4 August - Siegfried Wagner, composer and conductor
• 8 August - Walther Reinhardt, Army officer
• 10 September - Eugen Diederichs, publisher
• 20 September - Moritz Pasch, mathematician
• 24 September - Otto Mueller, painter
• 28 September - Prince Leopold of Bavaria, nobleman and Field Marshal
• 10 October - Adolf Engler, botanist
• 27 October - Alexander Baerwald, architect
• 11 November - Paul Hensel, philosopher
• 17 November - Hans Kniep, botanist
• 11 December - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Prussian Army general
• 30 November - Max Skladanowsky, German German inventor and early filmmaker
• 15 December - Johannes Hoffmann, SPD Minister-President of Bavaria
• 16 December - Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley, painter
• 19 December - Conrad Willgerodt, chemist
• 24 December - Eduard David, politician
• 25 December - Eugen Goldstein, physicist