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Events in the year1919 inGermany.

• President - vacant,Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats) (from 11 February)

• Chancellor -Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats)("Head of Government") (to 11 February),Philipp Scheidemann (Social Democrats) (to 20 June),Gustav Bauer (Social Democrats) (from 21 June)

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• 5–15 January –Spartacist uprising
• 19 January –German federal election, 1919
• 11 February -German presidential election, 1919
• 13 February –Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in.
• 29 March –University of Hamburg is established.
• 21 June –Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
• 28 June – TheWeimar Republic is forced to sign theTreaty of Versailles under threat of continued Allied advance, which effectively endedWorld War I.
• 12 September –Adolf Hitler spies on the German's Worker Party meeting in 1919 for the Reichswehr, also joining the party.^[1]

• Betz's law is published in 1919, by the German physicistAlbert Betz. It indicates the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind, independent of the design of a wind turbine in open flow.
• Forbo Movement Systems, a manufacturer of conveyor and power transmission belts is founded.^[2]
• Münchener Lichtspielkunst AG is founded in Munich.

• 29 January –Konrad Hesse, German judge (died2005)
• 6 March –Michael Karkoc, German war criminal (died2019)
• 27 March –Peter Selz, German-born art historian (died2019)
• 3 March –Loki Schmidt, German environmentalist, wife ofHelmut Schmidt (died2010)
• 6 April –Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor (died2010)
• 23 April –Anne Buydens, Belgian-American actress (died2021)
• 3 May –Traute Lafrenz, German-American physician and anthropologist (died2023)
• 16 May –Albert Osswald, German politician (died1996)
• 19 June -Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died2010)
• 7 July –Hans Adolph Buchdahl, German-born Australian physicist (died2010)
• 8 July –Walter Scheel, German politician (died2016)
• 29 July –Kunigunde Bachl, German physician and politician (died1994)
• 31 August –Eric Koch, German-Canadian author, broadcaster and academic (died2018)
• 30 August –Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (died2010)
• 5 September –Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died1945)
• 22 September –Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died1999)
• 29 September –Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died2017)
• 3 October –Hella Brock, German musicologist (died2020)
• 7 October –Annemarie Renger, German politician (died2008)
• 6 November –Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter and Catholic martyr (died1943)^[3]
• 9 November –John Herberger, German football player and coach (died2002)
• 10 November –Kurt Schmücker, German politician (died1996)
• 14 November –Lisa Otto, German soprano (died2013)
• 30 November –Detlef Kraus, German pianist (died2008)
• 31 December –Artur Fischer, German inventor (died2016)

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