1943 in Germany
List of events
Events in the year 1943 in Germany .
Incumbents
National level
Head of State and Chancellor
Events
Jewish prisoners being deported from the Kraków Ghetto .
This photograph, from the Stroop Report , shows captured fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising .
The bombing of Hamburg during 1943.
18 January – World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht 's siege of Leningrad .
18 January – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
27 January – World War II: 64 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven is the target).
29 January – German police arrest alleged necrophiliac Bruno Ludke .
29 January – Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds the late Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt controlling the Schutzstaffel Gestapo
2 February – World War II: In Russia , the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army and its 91,000 remaining soldiers.
3 February – World War II: The Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (Dorchester ) is struck by a German torpedo .
14 February – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass : German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia .
16 February – World War II: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov , but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov
18 February – In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast , German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a "Total War " against the Allies.
18 February – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
22 February – Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
28 February – Operation Gunnerside : 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant Vemork .
1 March – Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for Nazi Germany 's Army.
13 March – Holocaust : German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków .
16 March – 19 March – World War II: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat wolfpack attack of the war.
22 March – World War II: The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German Dirlewanger Brigade in retaliation for an attack of a German convoy by Soviet partisans.
26 March – Adolf Hitler writes to Benito Mussolini that Russia is so weakened by the defence of Stalingrad that it cannot possibly be a serious menace.
13 April – World War II: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre .
6 May – World War II: Six U-boats are sunk after sinking 12 ships from Convoy ONS 5 , regarded as the turning point in the North Atlantic U-boat war.
13 May – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
15 May – The Comintern is dissolved in Moscow .
16 May – World War II: Operation Chastise by RAF 617 Sqdn is carried out on German dams.
16 May – Holocaust : The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
24 May – Holocaust : Josef Mengele becomes the chief medical officer of Auschwitz .
5 July – World War II: Operation Citadel commences, resulting in the Battle of Kursk – The largest tank battle in history begins, with German Panther tanks seeing combat for the first time.
12 July – World War II – Battle of Prokhorovka : The Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight to a draw.
24 July – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.
27 July – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The continued British bombing of Hamburg , initiates a firestorm . The fire rages through the night into the morning of the 28th, causing the majority of Operation Gomorrah's deaths.
3 August – World War II: Operation Gomorrah closes, with an estimated 42,600 killed and 37,000 wounded; much of Hamburg is leveled.
23 August – The Battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.
24 August – World War II: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichsminister of the Interior in Germany.
29 August – World War II: Germany dissolves the Danish government after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities (see Occupation of Denmark ).
8 September – World War II: Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943 : The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.
12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in Operation Eiche .
13 October – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
17 October – World War II: The last commerce raider , auxiliary cruiser Michel , was sunk off Japan by United States submarine Tarpon .[1]
22 October – World War II: The RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel .
15 November – Porajmos : German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ."
18 November – World War II: The Royal Air Force opens its bombing campaign against Berlin , with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.
23 November – The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed.
2 December – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy , sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causing numerous fatalities ; the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths as well.
11 December – United States Army Air Corps raids a U-boat yard at Emden , losing 20 planes but shooting down 138 German fighters.
20 December – First flight of a true four-engined version of the troubled He 177A heavy bomber, as the Heinkel He 177 V102 prototype of the Heinkel He 177B series makes its maiden flight with four separate Daimler-Benz DB 603 engines at the Heinkel-Sud factory airfield in Schwechat .[2]
Births
6 January – Wilhelm Kuhweide , German sailor
14 January – Manfred Wolke , German boxer
22 January – Wilhelm Genazino , German author and journalist (died 2018 )
24 January - Peter Struck , German politician (died 2012 )
25 January -
1 February – Brun-Otto Bryde , German judge
11 February – Gerhard Glogowski , German politician
12 February – Rainer Eppelmann , German politician
13 February – Friedrich Christian Delius , German writer (died 2022 )
15 February – Elke Heidenreich , German author and television presenter
21 February – Paul Kirchhof , German judge
22 February – Horst Köhler , German politician, former President of Germany
27 February – Klaus Köste , German gymnast (died 2012 )
24 March – Marika Kilius , German pair skater
12 April
16 April
19 April – Claus Theo Gärtner , German actor
1 May – Sabine Uecker , German politician
2 May – Manfred Schnelldorfer , German figure skater
6 May – Wolfgang Reinhard , German pole vaulter (died 2011 )
10 May – Wolfgang Porsche , German manager
18 May – Helmut Haussmann , German politician
22 May – Gesine Schwan , German politician
24 May – Gerd Gies , German politician
31 May – Antje Vollmer , German theologian and politician (died 2023 )
28 June – Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
30 June – Hartmann von der Tann , German journalist
30 June – Dieter Kottysch , German boxer (died 2017 )
4 July
6 July – Hans-Jürgen Papier , German judge
7 July – Jürgen Geschke , German track cyclist
25 July
29 July
4 August – Barbara Saß-Viehweger , German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
12 August – Herta Däubler-Gmelin , politician
27 August – Wolfgang Nordwig , German pole vaulter
3 September – Dagmar Schipanski , German physicist and politician (died 2022 )
7 September – Lena Valaitis , German singer
16 September
25 September – Willi Entenmann , footballer and coach (died 2012 )
27 September – Walter Riester , German politician
28 September
29 September – Wolfgang Overath , German footballer
30 September – Johann Deisenhofer , German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
6 October – Udo Zimmermann , German composer and opera director (died 2021 )
19 October – Axel Ullrich , German biologist
20 October – Madeleine Schickedanz , German entrepreneur
22 October – Wolfgang Thierse , German politician
28 October – Cornelia Froboess , German actress
20 November – Bernard Broermann , German businessman
23 November – Günther Beckstein , German politician
8 December – Bodo Tümmler , German Olympic middle-distance runner
12 December – Renate Schmidt , German politician
17 December – Heidemarie Koch , German archaeologist (died 2022 )
23 December – Queen Silvia of Sweden
25 December – Hanna Schygulla , German actress
31 December – Wolfgang Gerhardt , German politician
Deaths
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13 January – Else Ury , German writer (born 1877 )
15 January – George of Saxony , Crown prince of Saxony (born 1893 )
14 February – David Hilbert , German mathematician (born 1862 )
22 February – Hans Scholl , German White Rose resistance member (executed by Nazis ) (born 1918 )
22 February – Sophie Scholl , German White Rose resistance member (executed by Nazis ) (born 1921 )
26 February – Theodor Eicke , German Nazi official (born 1892 )
10 March – Otto Modersohn , German painter (born 1865 )
22 March – Hans Woellke , German shot putter (born 1911 )
13 April – Oskar Schlemmer , German painter, sculptor and choreographer (born 1888 )
24 April – Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general (born 1878 )
15 May – Ludwig Roselius , German businessman (born 1874 )
31 May – Helmut Kapp , German Gestapo official
13 July – Luz Long , German long jump athlete (born 1913 )
21 July – Theodor von Guérard , German jurist and politician (born 1863 )
5 August – Liane Berkowitz , German resistance fighter of the Red Orchestra organisation (born 1923 )
2 September – Wilhelm Geiger , German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages (born 1856 )
16 September – Robert Schmidt , German politician (born 1864 )
22 September – Heinrich Waentig , German politician (born 1870 )
23 September – Theodor Wolff , German writer and journalist (born 1868 )
5 October – Ludwig von Estorff , German general (born 1859 in Germany )
date unknown: Gottlob Walz , German diver (born 1881 )
References
^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of World War II . Prentice-Hall. p. 276. ISBN 0-13-354027-8 .
^ Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). Heinkel He 177 – 277 – 274 . Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. pp. 166–67. ISBN 1-85310-364-0 .
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