1946 in Germany

Events

Undated

• Average intake per day of 1,080 kilocalories.
• German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development founded.
• Hansawelle founded.
• Südwest Presse founded.
• West German Athletics Championships established.
• Westphalian Football and Athletics Association founded.

  January

• January:
• * German steel production limited to 25% of prewar level by the Allied Control Council.
• * British occupation zone denazification responsibilities turned over to the Germans.
• * Soviet 2nd Shock Army returned to the Soviet Union.
• 8 January: Braunschweiger Zeitung founded.

  February

• 1 February: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra founded.
• 5 February: Soviet 47th Army disbanded.
• 21 February: Die Zeit founded.

  March

• March:
• * Law for Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism turns denazification responsibility over to the Germans.
• * Seventh United States Army inactivated.
• * Bamberg Symphony founded.
• 2 March: Rheinische Post founded.

  April

• April: Badisches Volksecho founded.
• 2 April: Die Welt founded.
• 3 April: Lübecker Nachrichten founded.
• 8 April: Sozialistische Einheit ceased publication.
• 13 April: Sächsische Zeitung founded.
• 21 April:
• * Merger of the KPD and SPD into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
• * Deutsche Volkszeitung ceased publication.
• 23 April:
• * Neues Deutschland founded.
• * Das Volk ceased publication.

  May

• 4 May: US general Lucius D. Clay temporarily suspends reparations deliveries to the Soviet Union.
• 16 May: Handelsblatt founded.
• 17 May: DEFA film studio founded.
• 20 May: Lausitzer Rundschau founded.

  June

• June: Gehlen Organization established.
• 29 June: Provisional German administration under Soviet supervision established in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• 30 June: June 1946 Bavarian state election.

  July

• July: Europa-Archiv founded.
• 1 July: ABC-Zeitung founded.

  August

• 20 August: Dissolution of the Wehrmacht.

  September

• 6 September: Restatement of Policy on Germany.
• 16 September: BRIXMIS established.

  October

• 1 October: Nuremberg trials conclude.
• 20 October:
• * 1946 Berlin state election.
• * 1946 Soviet occupation zone state elections.
• * Rhine Province disestablished.

  November

• 13 November: Münchner Merkur founded.

  December

• 1 December: December 1946 Bavarian state election.
• 5 December: Hamburg Ravensbrück trials begin.
• 11 December: Hörzu founded.
• 21 December: Middle Rhine Football Association founded.
• Christmas: First edition of Auto motor und sport appears.

  Births

• February 23 — Bodo Hauser, German journalist and writer
• April 17 — Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist
• May 9 — Drafi Deutscher, German singer
• May 14 — Elmar Brok, German politician
• May 17 — Udo Lindenberg, German singer
• June 26 — Maria von Welser, German journalist
• July 1:
• * Stefan Aust, German journalist
• * Rosalie Abella, German jurist
• August 20 — Henryk Broder, German journalist
• December 14 — Ruth Fuchs, German athlete

  Deaths

• February 8 - Felix Hoffmann, German chemist
• February 10 - Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur
• May 16 - Bruno Tesch, German chemist and entrepreneur
• June 6 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist
• September 6 - Alfred Körte, German philologist
• 15 October — Hermann Göring, World War I fighter ace and Reichsmarshall of Nazi Germany
• 16 October — Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologue