List of state funerals and state acts in the Federal Republic of Germany at the federal level
The state funerals and state acts honoring public figures in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1954 and the state acts on the occasion of special events since 1974 are listed. Unless otherwise noted, the information comes from the Federal Ministry of the Interior .
State funerals since 1954
State funeral for | Office / occupation | date | place | comment |
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Hermann Ehlers (* October 1, 1904, † October 29, 1954) |
President of the Bundestag | Nov 3, 1954 | brawn | Honorary funeral, state ceremony on November 2, 1954 in Bonn |
Robert Tillmanns (* April 5th, 1896, † November 12th, 1955) |
Federal Minister | Nov 17, 1955 | Berlin | |
Hermann Lindrath (* June 29, 1896, † February 27, 1960) |
Federal Minister | March 4, 1960 | Heidelberg | |
Max Becker (* May 25, 1888, † July 29, 1960) |
Vice President of the Bundestag | Aug 3, 1960 | Bad Hersfeld | |
Jakob Kaiser (* 8.2.1888, † 7.5.1961) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | May 12, 1961 | Berlin | |
Theodor Heuss (* January 31, 1884, † December 12, 1963) |
Federal President a. D. | Dec 17, 1963 | Stuttgart | State act on December 17, 1963 in Bonn |
Erich Ollenhauer (* March 27, 1901, † December 14, 1963) |
SPD party and parliamentary group chairman | Dec. 19, 1963 | Bonn | State act on December 19, 1963 in Bonn |
Heinrich von Brentano (* June 20th, 1904, † November 14th, 1964) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | Nov 19, 1964 | Darmstadt | State act on November 17, 1964 in Bonn |
Fritz Erler (* July 14, 1913, † February 22, 1967) |
Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group | Feb. 28, 1967 | Pforzheim | |
Fritz Schäffer (* May 12, 1888, † March 29, 1967) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | Apr 4, 1967 | Tuntenhausen | |
Konrad Adenauer (* 5.1.1876, † 19.4.1967) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | Apr 25, 1967 | Rhöndorf | State act on April 25, 1967 in Bonn |
Thomas Dehler (* December 14th, 1897, † July 21st, 1967) |
Bundestag Vice President a. D. | July 25, 1967 | Lichtenfels | |
Paul Löbe (* December 14th, 1875, † August 3rd, 1967) |
former President of the Reichstag | Aug 9, 1967 | Berlin | |
Hans Lenz (* July 12th, 1907, † August 28th, 1968) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 3rd Sep 1968 | Trossingen | |
Karl Graf von Spreti (* May 21, 1907, † April 5, 1970) |
ambassador | Apr 14, 1970 | Vilsheim | |
Ernst Lemmer (* April 28, 1898, † August 18, 1970) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 25 Aug 1970 | Berlin | |
Heinrich Lübke (* October 14, 1894, † April 6, 1972) |
Federal President a. D. | Apr 13, 1972 | Enkhausen | State act on April 13, 1972 in Bonn |
Theodor Blank (* September 19, 1905, † May 14, 1972) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | May 18, 1972 | Bonn-Bad Godesberg | |
Anton Storch (* April 1st, 1892, † November 26th, 1975) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | Dec 2, 1975 | Fulda | |
Gustav Heinemann (* July 23, 1899, † July 7, 1976) |
Federal President a. D. | July 12, 1976 | eat | State act on July 12, 1976 in Bonn |
Paul Lücke (* November 13th, 1914, † August 10th, 1976) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | Aug 16, 1976 | Bensberg | |
Siegfried Buback (* 3.1.1920, † 7.4.1977) |
Attorney General | Apr 13, 1977 | Karlsruhe | State act on April 13, 1977 in Karlsruhe |
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Wolfgang Göbeldriver | Apr 13, 1977 | Karlsruhe | State act on April 13, 1977 in Karlsruhe |
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Georg Wurstersecurity guard | Apr 15, 1977 | Ettlingen | State act on April 13, 1977 in Karlsruhe |
Ludwig Erhard (* 4.2.1897, † 5.5.1977) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | May 12, 1977 | Gmund | State ceremony on May 11, 1977 in Bonn |
Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen (* January 31, 1923, † August 2, 1979) |
Vice President of the Bundestag | Aug 9, 1979 | bad Soden | |
Carlo Schmid (* December 3rd, 1896, † December 11th, 1979) |
Bundestag Vice President a. D. | Dec 15, 1979 | Tübingen | |
Lauritz Lauritzen (* January 20th, 1910, † June 5th, 1980) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | June 11, 1980 | Bad Honnef | |
Eugen Gerstenmaier (* August 25, 1906, † March 13, 1986) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | March 22, 1986 | Upper winter | State act on March 22, 1986 in Bonn |
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (* 6.4.1904, † 9.3.1988) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | March 18, 1988 | Tübingen | State ceremony on March 18, 1988 in Stuttgart |
Kai-Uwe von Hassel (* April 21, 1913, † May 8, 1997) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | May 16, 1997 | Bonn | State act on May 16, 1997 in Bonn |
Mourning State Act since 1954
State act for | Office / occupation | date | place | comment |
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Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (* January 31, 1883, † January 15, 1954) |
Constitutional Court President a. D. | 01/19/1954 | Bonn : Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Hermann Ehlers (* October 1, 1904, † October 29, 1954) |
President of the Bundestag | 11/02/1954 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on November 3, 1954 in Sülze |
Theodor Heuss (* January 31, 1884, † December 12, 1963) |
Federal President a. D. | December 17, 1963 | Stuttgart | State funeral on December 17, 1963 in Stuttgart |
Erich Ollenhauer (* March 27, 1901, † December 14, 1963) |
SPD party and parliamentary group chairman | December 19, 1963 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on December 19, 1963 in Bonn |
Heinrich von Brentano (* June 20th, 1904, † November 14th, 1964) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 11/17/1964 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on November 19, 1964 in Darmstadt |
Konrad Adenauer (* 5.1.1876, † 19.4.1967) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | 04/25/1967 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on April 25, 1967 in Rhöndorf |
Heinrich Lübke (* October 14, 1894, † April 6, 1972) |
Federal President a. D. | 04/13/1972 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on April 13, 1972 in Enkhausen |
Gustav Heinemann (* July 23, 1899, † July 7, 1976) |
Federal President a. D. | 07/12/1976 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on July 17, 1976 in Essen |
Siegfried Buback (* 3.1.1920, † 7.4.1977) |
Attorney General | 04/13/1977 | Karlsruhe : Evangelical city church | State funeral on April 13, 1977 in Karlsruhe |
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Wolfgang Göbeldriver | State funeral on April 13th, 1977 in Karlsruhe | ||
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Georg Wurstersecurity guard | State funeral on April 15, 1977 in Ettlingen | ||
Ludwig Erhard (* 4.2.1897, † 5.5.1977) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | 05/11/1977 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on May 12, 1977 in Gmund am Tegernsee |
Hanns Martin Schleyer (* 1.5.1915, † 18.10.1977) |
President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations | 10/25/1977 | Stuttgart: St. Eberhard Cathedral | |
Walter Hallstein (* November 17, 1901, † March 29, 1982) |
President of the Commission of the EEC a. D. | 04/02/1982 | Stuttgart | |
Eugen Gerstenmaier (* August 25, 1906, † March 13, 1986) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | 03/22/1986 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on March 22, 1986 in Oberwinter |
Wolfgang Zeidler (* September 2, 1924, † December 29, 1987) |
President of the Federal Constitutional Court a. D. | 01/08/1988 | Karlsruhe: Building of the Federal Constitutional Court | |
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (* 6.4.1904, † 9.3.1988) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | 03/18/1988 | Stuttgart: St. Eberhard Cathedral | State funeral on March 18, 1988 in Tübingen |
Hermann Höcherl (* March 31, 1912, † May 18, 1989) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 05/26/1989 | Regensburg : St. Peter's Cathedral | |
Bruno Heck (* January 20, 1917, † September 16, 1989) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 09/22/1989 | Rottweil | |
Gerhard Schröder (* September 11, 1910, † December 31, 1989) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 01/12/1990 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Herbert Wehner (* July 11, 1906, † January 19, 1990) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | January 25, 1990 | Bonn: Beethoven Hall | |
Gebhard Müller (* April 17th, 1900, † August 7th, 1990) |
President of the Federal Constitutional Court a. D. | 08/14/1990 | Rottenburg am Neckar | |
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (* October 16, 1932, † April 1, 1991) |
President of the Treuhandanstalt | 04/10/1991 | Berlin : Schauspielhaus | |
Karl Carstens (* December 14th, 1914, † May 30th, 1992) |
Federal President a. D. | 06/04/1992 | Bonn: Beethoven Hall | |
Willy Brandt (* December 18, 1913, † October 8, 1992) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | 10/17/1992 | Berlin: plenary hall in the Reichstag building | |
Manfred Wörner (* 9/24/1934, † 8/13/1994) |
NATO Secretary General a. D. | 08/23/1994 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Karl Schiller (* April 24, 1911, † December 26, 1994) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 01/12/1995 | Hamburg : main church Sankt Petri | |
Kurt Schmücker (* November 10, 1919, † January 6, 1996) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 01/12/1996 | Loeningen | |
Hans Katzer (* January 31, 1919, † July 18, 1996) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 07/29/1996 | Cologne : historic town hall | |
Hans Klein (* July 11th, 1931, † November 26th, 1996) |
Vice President of the Bundestag | 12/02/1996 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Aenne Brauksiepe (* February 23, 1912, † January 1, 1997) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 01/13/1997 | Oelde | |
Kai-Uwe von Hassel (* April 21, 1913, † May 8, 1997) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | 05/16/1997 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | State funeral on May 16, 1997 in Bonn |
Erich Mende (* October 28, 1916, † May 6, 1998) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 05/15/1998 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Richard Jaeger (* February 16, 1913, † May 15, 1998) |
Bundestag Vice President a. D. | 05/25/1998 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Heinz Westphal (* 4.6.1924, † 30.10.1998) |
Bundestag Vice President a. D. | 11/19/1998 | Bonn: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Josef Felder (* August 24th, 1900, † October 28th, 2000) |
Member of the Reichstag and Bundestag (formerly) | 07/11/2000 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Josef Ertl (* March 7, 1925, † November 16, 2000) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 11/30/2000 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Richard Stücklen (* 20.8.1916, † 2.5.2002) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | 05/15/2002 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Victims of the flood disaster in the Indian Ocean (December 26, 2004) |
01/20/2005 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | ||
Johannes Rau (* January 16, 1931, † January 27, 2006) |
Federal President a. D. | 02/07/2006 | Berlin: Berlin Cathedral | |
Rainer Barzel (* June 20th, 1924, † August 26th, 2006) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | 09/22/2006 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Annemarie Renger (* October 7, 1919, † March 3, 2008) |
Bundestag President a. D. | 03/13/2008 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag | |
Richard von Weizsäcker (* April 15, 1920, † January 31, 2015) |
Federal President a. D. | 02/11/2015 | Berlin: Berlin Cathedral | |
Helmut Schmidt (* December 23rd, 1918, † November 10th, 2015) |
Federal Chancellor a. D. | 11/23/2015 | Hamburg: main church Sankt Michaelis | |
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (* March 21, 1927, † March 31, 2016) |
Federal Minister ret. D. | 04/17/2016 | Bonn: former plenary hall of the German Bundestag | |
Walter Scheel (* July 8th, 1919, † August 24th, 2016) |
Federal President a. D. | 07.09.2016 | Berlin: Philharmonic | |
Roman Herzog (* April 5th, 1934, † January 10th, 2017) |
Federal President a. D. | 01/24/2017 | Berlin: Berlin Cathedral | |
Philipp Jenninger (* June 10th, 1932, † April 4th, 2018) |
President of the Bundestag a. D. | January 18, 2018 | Berlin: Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag |
Remarks
State acts on the occasion of special events since 1974
occasion | date | place |
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Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany | 25th anniversary of the entry into force of theMay 24, 1974 | Bonn : plenary hall of the German Bundestag |
40th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany | 05/24/1989 | Bonn: Beethoven Hall |
Day of German unity | 10/03/1990 | Berlin : Philharmonic |
Second World War | 50th anniversary of the end of the05/08/1995 | Berlin: Konzerthaus |
50th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany | 05/24/1999 | Berlin: Reichstag building |
60th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany | 05/22/2009 | Berlin: Konzerthaus |
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Inland protocol of the federal government
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel : Issue of August 10, 1967 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p German Bundestag : Data Handbook 1949–2003 : Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 (zip; 48 MB), pp. 2015–2017
- ^ SWR2 archive radio : State act for Siegfried Buback, Wolfgang Göbel and Georg Wurster
- ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg (ed.): In memory of Hanns Martin Schleyer: Funeral service and state ceremony on October 25, 1977 in the Catholic Church of St. Eberhard in Stuttgart . Stuttgart 1977.
- ^ Roman Herzog : Farewell to Wolfgang Zeidler: State act in the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe . In: Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (Ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government . tape 1988 , no. 4 , ISSN 0342-5754 , p. 21-23 .
- ^ Mittelbayerische Zeitung : A state funeral in Regensburg
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j German Bundestag : data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag since 1990 , here: Chapter 7.18 Memorial Sessions and Special Events
- ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: State act for Federal President a. D. Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: State Act for Federal Chancellor a. D. Helmut Schmidt ( Memento of the original of September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: State act for Federal Minister a. D. Genscher ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: State act for Federal President a. D. Walter Scheel ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Federal Ministry of the Interior: State act for Federal President a. D. Roman Herzog ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Inland minutes of the Federal Government - Previous State Acts of Mourning - State Act for President of the Bundestag a. D. Dr. Philipp Jenninger. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on January 19, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Order of the State Act ( BGBl. 1974 II No. 9 )
- ^ Federal President's Office: Speech by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker
- ^ Center for Contemporary Historical Research : Chronicle of the Wall, October 1990
- ^ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government : Address by the Federal President Roman Herzog
- ^ Federal President's Office: Address by Federal President Roman Herzog
- ^ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: In good shape - 60 years of the Basic Law