1929 in Germany

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Incumbents

8–29 August - Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles).
31 August - The Young Plan for settling German World War I reparations is finalized.
October - The Wall Street Crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism.^[1] The number of unemployed reaches three million.^[2]
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) is first published in book format

9 January - Heiner Müller, dramatist (died 1995)
29 January - John Polanyi, Hungarian-Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
31 January - Rudolf Mössbauer, nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (died 2011)
17 April - James Last, born Hans Last, bandleader (died 2015 in the United States)
1 May - Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and political scientist (died 2009)
16 May - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
10 June - Harald Juhnke, comedian (died 2005)
12 June - Anne Frank, born Annelies Frank, Jewish diarist (died 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
18 June
- Jürgen Habermas, philosopher
- Christa Wolf, literary critic, novelist, and essayist (died 2011)
25 October - Peter Rühmkorf, writer (died 2008)
11 November - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, writer

29 January - Hans Prutz, historian (born 1843)
1 March - Ernst Oppler, painter (born 1867)
4 April - Karl Benz, automotive pioneer (born 1844)
22 June - Alfred Brunswig, philosopher (born 1877)
3 October - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923-29, Nobel laureate (born 1878)
8 October - Max Lehmann, historian (born 1845)
26 October - Aby Warburg, art historian (born 1866)
28 October - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor 1900-09 (born 1849)
6 November - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor October-November 1918 (born 1867)
10 December - Franz Rosenzweig, theologian and philosopher (born 1886)
29 December - Wilhelm Maybach, automobile designer (born 1846)

↑ Lee, Stephen (1996). Weimar and Nazi Germany. London: Heinemann. pp. 38–39. ISBN 0-435-30920-X.
↑ Gilbert, Martin (1998). A History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-71393-4.

Years in Germany (1870–present)

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