Chronicle of the City of Munich / 1901–2000

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This list is a partial list of the chronicle of the city of Munich . It lists events in the history of Munich from the 20th century.

1901

February 10th: Max von Pettenkofer dies
March 3: Foundation of the child protection association

May 9: Opening of the Müller Volksbad

August 21: Opening of the Prinzregententheater

September 29: Opening of the Luitpold Bridge

October 1: Opening of the railway line from Moosach train station to Schwabing freight station

Foundation of the artist group Phalanx

Foundation of the Munich vocational training center

1902

Last edition of the journal Die Gesellschaft

1903

July 1: The Pasing – Herrsching railway line opens
July 17th: Reichenbach Bridge opens
October 1st: Opening of the Elisabethmarkt
Foundation of the Deutsches Museum
Opening of the artist café Simpl

1904

June 6th: The Munich-Giesing-Aying railway line opens
Opening of the Neudeck correctional facility
First edition of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte

1905

Publication of the satirical novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann, which was filmed in 1930 as The Blue Angel

1906

February 4: World Figure Skating Championships 1906
June 24th: Inauguration of the Paulskirche
October 1st: Opening of the central workshop in Aubing
Foundation of the Munich Adult Education Center

1907

Opening of the Pasinger Viktualienmarkt
Start of construction of the residential complexes on Loehleplatz

1908

First edition of Hyperion magazine

1909

January 18: Opening of the Schwabing Clinic

March 7th: Inauguration of the Pasing church Maria Schutz

May 8th: Opening of the children's clinic on Lachnerstrasse

May 23: Franziskus von Bettinger becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising

June 5: Opening of the Munich East – Ismaning and Johanneskirchen – Schwabing railway lines

June 12: The service company Wackler Holding is founded

1910

Installation of the Benno column

Last issue of Hyperion magazine

Completion of the Arco-Palais

Foundation of the Israelite hospital and nurses home

1911

Opening of the Luitpoldpark
Opening of the Hellabrunn Zoo
Foundation of the Münchner Kammerspiele
Foundation of the electricity supplier OBÜZ

1912

Incorporation of the community Forstenried into the city of Munich
Opening of the wholesale market hall
Commissioning of the Third Order Hospital
Establishment of the villa colony at Schlosspark Laim
Completion of the main customs office

1913

Incorporation of the city of Milbertshofen and the municipalities of Berg am Laim , Moosach and Oberföhring into the city of Munich

European ice hockey championship 1913

Unveiling of the Richard Wagner monument

Founding of the Cowboy Club Munich , the oldest existing cowboy club in Germany

1914

Opening of the New Botanical Garden
Closure of the Royal Bavarian Artillery and Engineering School

1915

Completion of the German Heart Center in Munich

1916

Opening of the women's clinic on Maistraße

1917

Michael von Faulhaber becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising
The Brothers of Mercy Hospital is established

1918

December 6: Munich newspaper coup
Establishment of the research institute for thermal insulation

1919

February 19: Lotter coup
February 21: The Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner is murdered
April 13th: Palm Sunday coup
December 17th: Foundation of the clergy association
Circus Krone takes its seat in Munich
German wrestling championships 1919
Eduard Schmid is elected Mayor of Munich
Munich Soviet Republic

1920

May 27: Opening of the Infantry School of the Reichswehr
Dissolution of the Bavarian Cadet Corps
Foundation of the Munich Student Union

1921

September 4th: Foundation of the regional association of Bavarian allotment gardeners
Beginning of Monacensia

1922

May 13th - October 8th: German Trade Show Munich

August 27th - August 30th: 62nd German Catholic Day

Foundation of the right association Gäa

Foundation of the Munich Association of Insurance

1923

November 8th and 9th: Hitler putsch
German Gymnastics Festival 1923

1924

February 26 - April 1: Hitler trial
Inauguration of the war memorial in the Hofgarten
First edition of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse
Opening of the Munich East marshalling yard and the Munich East depot

1925

June 1 - October 12: German Transport Exhibition 1925
Karl Scharnagl is elected Mayor of Munich
Opening of the Deutsches Museum
Munich stab in the back trial
Foundation of the Philosophy College
Founding of the Allach porcelain factory

1926

October 17th: Consecration of the Church of St. Korbinian
Establishment of TSV München Großhadern
Completion of the Church of St. Gabriel

1927

October 8: The Munich-Freimann repair shop opens
Completion of the Ismaninger Strasse post office
Foundation of the Trapp music school, later the Richard Strauss Conservatory
Start of construction on the multi-storey development Walchenseeplatz

1928

23 May: Hellabrunn Zoo reopens
Foundation of the Literature Prize
May: Foundation of PSV Munich

1929

March 31: First edition of the magazine Illustrierter Sonntag
Completion of the bristle
Completion of the Thalkirchner Strasse Clinic
First edition of Ludendorff's Volkswarte

1930

Incorporation of the communities of Perlach and Daglfing into the city of Munich

Completion of the Christ the King Church

1931

June 1 - June 6: Exhibition of works by German romantics from Caspar David Friedrich to Moritz von Schwind in the Glaspalast
June 6th: Fire in the Glass Palace
November 2nd: Foundation of the tennis club TC Grün-Weiss Luitpoldpark Munich
Incorporation of the Freimann community into the city of Munich
Unveiling of the Bismarck monument
Munich university riots

1932

Incorporation of the community of Trudering into the city of Munich
Completion of the Father Rhine Well
Start of construction on the Bogenhausen atrium settlement

1933

March 20: Karl Fiehler is appointed mayor

October 10: City council resolution to build the Am Hart settlement

December 16: Opening of the Prinzregentenstadion

1934

May 30th: Official closure of the Apostolic Nunciature in Munich
Foundation of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum
First horse race around the Brown Belt of Germany
Construction of the garden city of Bogenhausen-Priel begins
Start of construction of the villa colony Am Priel-Hof

1935

August 8: the city of Munich is the title of Capital of the Movement awarded
first edition of the National Socialist student newspaper Die Bewegungs

1936

September 8: Opening of the Am Hart housing estate

Last edition of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte

Chess Olympia 1936

1937

Exhibition degenerate art
July 18: The House of Art opens
European Wrestling Championships 1937
Last edition of the magazine Der Kunstwart

1938

Incorporation of the city of Pasing and the communities of Feldmoching , Großhadern , Allach , Ludwigsfeld , Obermenzing , Solln and Untermenzing
Munich Agreement
Destruction of the Old Main Synagogue and the Old Synagogue Ohel Jakob
Completion of the radio barracks

1939

October 2: Completion of the Munich north ring from Olching to Trudering
October 25: Munich-Riem Airport opens
November 8th: Unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler in the Bürgerbräukeller by Georg Elser

1940

Last issue of Jugend magazine

Start of construction of the Aubingen thermal power station

Opening of the Deutsche Bahn telecommunications workshops

1941

March 17: Beginning of the Milbertshofen Jewish camp
May 5th: The Munich-Pasing depot opens
July: Beginning of the Berg am Laim collection camp

1942

January 1st: Opening of the Feldkirchner Tangente

January 29th - February 1st: German three-cushion championship

June: Forced dissolution of the Israelite hospital and nurses' home

September 14th - 26th: Chess tournament in Munich 1942

Founding of the White Rose resistance group

1943

August: Opening of the building goods station in Munich-Ludwigsfeld
Members of the White Rose are executed

1944

September 13th: Last edition of Simplicissimus
Last issue of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse

1945

May 8: Railway accident in Berg am Laim
October 6: First publication of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
October 17th: First publication of the Neue Zeitung
Foundation of the Munich Symphony Orchestra
May: Karl Scharnagl reinstated as Lord Mayor of Munich
the National Socialist student newspaper The movement is discontinued

1946

August 15: First issue of Der Ruf magazine

Karl Scharnagl is elected mayor

Foundation of the Otto Falckenberg School

Foundation of the private grammar school Ernst Adam , forerunner of the Nymphenburg schools

Foundation of the Nymphenburger Verlag

1947

Munich Prime Minister's Conference

1948

February 26: Foundation of the Max Planck Society
July 9: Foundation of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
Thomas Wimmer is elected Lord Mayor

1949

March 15th: Last issue of Der Ruf magazine

October 1: Opening of the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich

Foundation of the International Youth Library

Foundation of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Opening of the P1 club

Foundation of the Fraunhofer Society

Founding of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research

Foundation of the dance school at the Deutsches Theater

Foundation of the Tolstoy Library

1950

Establishment of the Federal Fiscal Court
Foundation of the Political School
Foundation of the Munich Chamber Orchestra
The Ukrainian Free University is coming to Munich

1951

Foundation of the German Geodetic Research Institute
Founding of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy

1952

Joseph Wendel becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Foundation of the German Geodetic Commission
Foundation of the Munich Radio Orchestra
Foundation of the Munich choirboys

1953

Demolition of the new Isar barracks
Demolition of the Guardian Angel Chapel

1954

February 2: Introduction of name for the previously designated only by numbers boroughs of Munich, it is the historic city center for the first time as an old town called
Twinning with Edinburgh
Establishment of Bayerische Hausbau

1955

Completion of the new building of the Church of St. Matthew
Foundation of the Bavarian State Newspaper

1956

Foundation of the Munich laughing and shooting society
Foundation of the Institute for Broadcast Technology

1957

Foundation of the International School for Drama and Acting
Foundation of the JFF - Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice

1958

British European Airways Flight 609
German Gymnastics Festival 1958
First award of the Cultural Prize of Honor of the City of Munich
Founding of the mineral oil company Allguth

1959

May 1st - 3rd: German Badminton Championship 1959
June 1st: Opening of the Sendlinger Spange
September 17th: Foundation of the German School of Journalism

1960

March 27: Hans-Jochen Vogel is elected Lord Mayor

May 25: The foundation stone is laid for the Hasenbergl housing estate

July 31 - August 7: 37th World Eucharistic Congress

August 1st: Completion of the new platform hall at Munich Central Station

December 17th: Air crash in Munich

City partnership with Verona

1961

Julius Döpfner becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising

Foundation of the Federal Patent Court

First award of the Schwabing Art Prize

First award of the Munich medal lights up

Construction of the Kronprinz-Rupprecht fountain

1962

December 2nd: Inauguration of the Gospel Church
First Munich Security Conference
Establishment of the Richard Strauss Fountain
Establishment of the Leibniz data center
Schwabing riots
Foundation of the Munich community of interests to protect civil rights

1963

Foundation of the German Youth Institute
1st Munich Security Conference

1964

The Bavarian Television goes on air
Foundation of the Society for Radiation Research
City partnership with Bordeaux
Construction of the Emmaus Church in Harlaching
Opening of the Institute of Catechetics and Homiletics

1965

First award of the Tukan Prize
Foundation of the rational theater
Foundation of the ISF Munich
Start of construction on the Johanneskirchen Nord estate
Foundation of the recreation area association

1966

Foundation of the University of Television and Film Munich

1967

Pasinger Dumpling War
Inauguration of the Truderinger Church of St. Franz Xaver

1968

Opening of the Olympic Tower
Opening of the Euro industrial park

1969

Opening of the weekly markets in Munich
Table tennis world championship 1969

1970

September 27: Dedication of the Church of the Epiphany
Foundation of the House of the German East
The rescue helicopter Christoph 1 is put into service
The BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt is established

1971

April 5: Establishment of the Munich Transport and Tariff Association

April 13th: Bank robbery by the Tupamaros Munich

August 1st: Foundation of the Munich University of Applied Sciences

August 1st: Foundation of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich

October 19: The Munich subway opens

Foundation of the Army University of Applied Sciences 2

1972

April 16: Inauguration of the Maria Trost Church in Untermenzing

April 28: Opening of the main S-Bahn line

May 28: The Munich S-Bahn starts operating

July: German Athletics Championships

August 23: Commissioning of the Neuherberg research reactor

September 5: Munich was taken hostage

German swimming championships

Opening of the pedestrian zone in Kaufingerstraße

Opening of the Neuperlach Clinic

Georg Kronawitter becomes the mayor elected

1972 Summer Olympics

City partnership with Sapporo

1973

Inauguration of the BMW high-rise

Ernst Otto Fischer receives the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Foundation of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich

First award of the Karl Valentin Order

the LASER World of PHOTONICS trade fair is taking place for the first time

Completion of the Schwabylon

1974

December 6th: Inauguration of the Wilhelm-Hausenstein-Gymnasium
World Figure Skating Championships 1974
Foundation of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Justice in Bavaria

1975

OCTOBER 1: The Munich city police is in the Munich police headquarters incorporated
March 7th: Railway accident in Munich-Allach
Ice Hockey World Championship 1975

1976

February 21-22: European Athletics Indoor Championships 1976
November 24th: Wienerwald speech
The scientific-technical working group for building preservation and monument preservation is founded

1977

March 24th: Joseph Ratzinger becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising
November 1st: Opening of the European Patent Office
Foundation of the Haidhausen Museum

1978

Erich Kiesl is elected Lord Mayor
Closure of the Aubing chemical factory
UCI Track World Championships 1978
the Heim + Handwerk trade fair takes place for the first time

1979

Demolition of the Schwabylon
German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Opening of Mini-Munich
Foundation of the leasing company Comprendium
Founding of Games-In Verlag
The Gebhard Fugel Art Prize is being awarded for the first time

1980

German swimming championships 1980
German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Foundation of the historical college
Oktoberfest attack

1981

10th World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics
Opening of the Neuperlach shopping center
Opening of the new building of the Neue Pinakothek
German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
Completion of the Hypo-House
Leisure 81
The Tunix festival takes place for the first time
The consumer games fair Spielwies'n takes place for the first time

1982

March 20: German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 under the title Ein Lied für Harrogate
World Boxing Championships 1982
German Athletics Championships 1982
Carl Orff dies
Friedrich Wetter becomes Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Closure of the Neuherberg research reactor

1983

1984

July 4th: Opening of the 88th German Catholic Day

July 12th: Hailstorm in Munich

December 31: First New Year's Eve run in Munich

German swimming championships 1984

German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Georg Kronawitter is elected mayor

Founding of the Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology

Start of construction of the garden city Johanneskirchen

1985

March 21st: German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 under the title Ein Lied für Göteborg

December: Opening of the Sudeten German House

Opening of the Gasteig cultural center

Opening of the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung

1986

June: The Mothers Against Nuclear Power Association is founded
German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1986
The Jazz Welle Plus goes on air
First publication of the journal Natur & Heilen
Founding of the Dükkan culture shop
Founding of the Crescendo Munich Symphony Orchestra
Foundation of the band Die Blechblos'n

1987

September 30: Radio 1 (Munich) stops broadcasting.
Foundation of the archive of the Munich labor movement
Establishment of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation
First award of the City of Munich Prize for Cityscape Maintenance

1988

The first Tollwood Festival takes place.
Foundation of the Abaco Orchestra
First Munich Biennale

1989

German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
The StuStaCulum is taking place for the first time
Foundation of the Bavarian Academy for Foreign Trade
City partnership with Cincinnati and Kiev

1990

March 29: German preliminary decision for the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest
July 14th: Walter Sedlmayr is murdered
German swimming championships 1990
Opening of the Museum of Man and Nature

1991

March 12th - 17th: World Figure Skating Championships 1991
March 21: German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 1991
Opening of the Munich North marshalling yard
Foundation of the Munich Business School
Foundation of the Research Center for German-Jewish Contemporary History
Closure of the United Workshops for Arts and Crafts
Foundation of the composer group A • DEvantgarde

1992

August 10th - 12th: 92nd German Athletics Championships

May 17th: Closure of Munich-Riem Airport and opening of the new Munich Airport

May 28th - 30th: 104th German Swimming Championships

July 6-8 : G7 summit

Reorganization of the Munich boroughs

First award of the Theater Prize of the City of Munich

First award of the journalism prize of the city of Munich

First award of the Music Prize of the City of Munich

1993

June 9th to 13th: 25th German Evangelical Church Congress
Opening of the Bogenhausen Clinic
Foundation of the Macromedia University for Media and Communication
Christian Ude is elected Lord Mayor
Foundation of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding
Founding of the Kultur in Hadern association

1994

September 9: Construction begins on the New Munich Trade Fair Center and thus the trade fair city of Riem
September 20: Trudering bus accident
May: Opening of REFUGIO Munich
The Anita Augspurg Prize is awarded for the first time

1995

Lineup of the Walking Man
Beer garden revolution
First award of the Cabaret Prize of the City of Munich
Erecting the memorial for the victims of the 1972 Olympic attack
Foundation of the Münchner Filmwerkstatt association

1996

Foundation of the German Forum for Inheritance Law Association
City partnership with Harare
Laim and Schwanthalerhöhe become two separate city districts
Founding of the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

1997

June: Opening of the Literaturhaus Munich

German swimming championships 1997

The LILALU children's festival is taking place for the first time

The Jazz Welle Plus stops broadcasting

Foundation of the Volk Verlag

The Munich Indoors riding tournament is taking place for the first time

1998

May 31 - June 7: German Gymnastics Festival 1998
Completion of the New Munich Trade Fair Center
Opening of the International Congress Center Munich

1999

Foundation of the Fraunhofer facility for communication technology systems ESK

Foundation of the NorCom company

Foundation of the Tunisian Academic Society

Establishment of the Czech Center in Munich

2000

Karate World Championship 2000

Inauguration of the new Herz-Jesu-Kirche

First award of the translation prize of the city of Munich

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