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This article covers breaking news and events in October 1949.
Daily events
Saturday October 1, 1949
- Düsseldorf / Germany : The members of the "Society for the Promotion of Basketball Sports " found the German Basketball Federation .
- Munich / Germany : The Upper Federal Authority, the German Patent Office , begins its work in the German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology .
- Beijing / China : Mao Tsetung , leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), announces the establishment of the "People's Republic of China". The party is also introducing a new national flag . It is red and has five stars - the largest of the stars symbolizes the CCP.
Sunday October 2, 1949
- Germany : On the occasion of the World Day of Peace celebrations , the Soviet military administration in Germany interrupted the blockade of the border between the Soviet occupation zone and the Federal Republic of Germany for three days without restriction for passenger traffic.
- Hameln / Germany : Sections of the German Conservative Party that are turned towards National Socialism - German right-wing party, headed by the former commander of the Führer-Accompanying Battalion Otto Ernst Remer , found the Socialist Reich Party of Germany .
Wednesday October 5, 1949
- Asunción / Paraguay : The government imposes a state of siege on the entire national territory.
- Paris / France : Henri Queuille of the Republican, Radical and Radical Socialist Party submits his request to President Vincent Auriol to resign as President of the Council of Ministers .
Thursday October 6, 1949
- Washington, DC / United States : US President Harry S. Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act ( German law for mutual defense assistance ), which implements the principle of the North Atlantic Treaty in national law. All contracting states will be defended by the United States in the event of an attack on their territory . Likewise, the United States will receive military aid from all contracting parties should it be attacked on its territory.
Friday October 7th 1949
- Berlin / Germany : The co-chairman of the SED Wilhelm Pieck announced the establishment of the "German Democratic Republic" (GDR) by the meeting of the 2nd German People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) the manifest for the National Front of Democratic Germany reads and the People's Council declared a provisional People's Chamber . This then passes all the necessary laws for the establishment of a state, including a. the constitution for the constitution of the GDR , approved by the People's Council on May 30th, is declared. The GDR is the same area as the Soviet Zone. Germany is divided into two German states.
- Berlin / Germany : The SED parliamentary group in the provisional People's Chamber names Otto Grotewohl, the co-chairman of its own party as Prime Minister of the GDR .
Saturday, October 8, 1949
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Representatives of both German states sign an agreement on interzonal trade , which specifies the goods that can be legally traded across the inner-German border .
Sunday October 9, 1949
- Tirana / Albania : In the Greek Civil War , the leadership of the Communist Party of Greece decides to unilaterally stop the fighting.
- Vienna / Austria : In the National Council election , the ÖVP of the incumbent Chancellor Leopold Figl becomes the party with the highest number of votes. The Socialists (SPÖ) achieve the second best result. The ÖVP has 77 seats in the National Council , the SPÖ 67, the Independents 16 and the KPÖ five.
Monday October 10, 1949
- Berlin / Germany : In the established three days ago DDR converts Soviet Union , the Soviet Military Administration in Germany in the People's Control Commission , and transmits the power to govern the authorities of the GDR. From the Soviet point of view, this is an independent state . The transfer of administrative power is to take place in the next few weeks.
- Hamburg / Germany : A plane takes off from Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport for the first scheduled flight to New York , with stopovers in Ireland and Newfoundland .
Tuesday October 11, 1949
- Berlin / Germany : The provisional Volkskammer and the Länderkammer elect Wilhelm Pieck as President of the GDR . Pieck is a former member of the SPD , USPD and KPD and today, together with Otto Grotewohl, chairman of the SED .
- Bonn / Germany : With the election of an executive committee, the journalists accredited to the Bundestag establish the Federal Press Conference Association .
Wednesday October 12, 1949
- Munich / Germany : The German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) is constituted at the congress of the West German trade union federations . Hans Böckler is elected first DGB federal chairman.
Friday October 14, 1949
- Hamburg / Germany : The program guide with the highest circulation in the Federal Republic of Hörzu appears with the new editorial mascot Mecki on the cover. The fictional hedgehog is supposed to comment critically on the radio program and, according to the editor-in-chief Eduard Rhein, remains an integral part of the publication.
Monday October 17, 1949
- Xiamen / China : In the 23rd year of civil war, the People's Liberation Army captured the port city of Xiamen in the south-east of the country. You are now facing the conquest of the island of Jīnmén , to which the fighters of the anti- communist National People's Party of China have withdrawn. The People's Army has 150,000 fighters available for the attack.
Tuesday October 18, 1949
- Warsaw / Poland : The People's Republic of Poland recognizes the German Democratic Republic as a sovereign state .
Wednesday October 19, 1949
- Bonn / Germany : The Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Wilhelm Niklas ( CSU ) announced the size of the food imports into the Federal Republic in the opinion of the Ministry in the 1949/50 financial year. The state reckons u. a. with the import of 9.4 million tons of grain and 410,000 tons of fats .
- Cologne / Germany : Representatives of 32 business associations in the Federal Republic of Germany found the committee for economic issues of the industrial associations . Then there is a reception where u. a. the Federal Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard ( CSU ) is present.
Thursday October 20, 1949
- Japan : US and international courts are dropping trials against Japanese war criminals .
- United States : Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver submit a procedure to the patent office in which information is represented in binary encryption as bars of different widths . The data is later recorded and decrypted by the optical reader that was also submitted .
Friday October 21, 1949
- Bonn / Germany : In the Bundestag , Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ( CDU ) formulated the Federal Republic's sole right of representation for the “ German people ”, since the FRG embodies the only democratically “legitimized state organization” in Germany. The German Democratic Republic , which he does not mention by name, is not supported by the population “in the Soviet zone”.
Sunday, October 23, 1949
- Vienna / Austria : In Austria, begins the first round of Toto betting on football results with twelve matches of the State League A .
Monday October 24, 1949
- Bonn / Germany : According to the Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims, Hans Lukaschek ( CDU ), more than 1,000 refugees from the GDR come to the Federal Republic every day .
- New York / United States : The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Trygve Lie lays the foundation stone for the new UN headquarters on the East River .
Wednesday October 26, 1949
- Berlin / Germany : In an article in the SED party newspaper Neues Deutschland , the President of the GDR Wilhelm Pieck invites the federal government to start negotiations on the unification of Germany .
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein / Germany : The working group of the 79 chambers of industry and commerce of the Federal Republic come together for the Verin German Industry and Trade Day . 14 years earlier, the predecessor association became de facto incapable of acting as a result of its incorporation into the Reich Chamber of Commerce of the German Reich .
Friday October 28, 1949
- Paris / France : The founder of the People's Republican Movement party, Georges Bidault , succeeds Henri Queuille from the Republican, Radical and Radical Socialist Party as President of the Council of Ministers .
Sunday October 30, 1949
- Brussels / Belgium : The Federal Republic of Germany is admitted to the European Economic Council , in which the decisions about the distribution of US reconstruction aid for Europe are made according to the Marshall Plan .
Monday October 31, 1949
- Bonn / Germany : Bonn becomes an occupation-free zone. The Belgian armed forces in Germany relocate their headquarters from Palais Schaumburg in Bonn to Cologne .
See also
- For a list of people who died in October 1949, see: Nekrolog October 1949 .
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October .
- Category: Day of commemoration, celebration or action in October (catalog with Wikipedia articles for October).
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ About us. In: dbb.de . Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ^ History. In: dpma.de . Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
- ↑ A stormy ovation for Mao Tse Tung. In: New Germany . October 2, 1949, accessed November 6, 2016 .
- ↑ China. In: flaggenlexikon.de, Volker Preuß. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Overcoming the multi-party state. In: kas.de . Retrieved on December 4, 2018 : "The Socialist Reich Party founded in Hameln on October 2, 1949"
- ↑ sentiersdelagloire.wordpress.com, Jean-Marc Binot: Henri Queuille, l'homme qui aurait pu être président de la République ( Memento of July 30, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- ^ Ernst-Otto Czempiel : The American Security System 1945-1949 . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1966, ISBN 978-3-11-175905-0 , p. 15 .
- ↑ Minutes and stenographic record of the 22nd (36th) meeting of the party executive committee, October 4, 1949, and stenographic record of the 23rd (37th) expanded party executive committee meeting of the SED [foundation of the GDR], October 9, 1949. In: 1000dokumente.de . October 1949. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ^ Government declaration by Otto Grotewohl. In: cvce.eu . October 12, 1949. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Inner German trade as a trailblazer for the policy of détente. In: bpb.de . January 4, 2007, accessed August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Johannes Ebert (Ed.): The Chronicle: History of the 20th Century to Today . Wissen Media Verlag , Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 978-3-577-14641-8 , p. 480 .
- ↑ National Council election of October 9, 1949. In: bmi.gv.at . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
- ^ Stefan wool : GDR . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-16122-3 , pp. 119 .
- ^ The founding of the GDR. In: ndr.de . September 27, 2009, accessed August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ The story. In: bundespressekonferenz.de . Retrieved December 4, 2018 .
- ^ German Trade Union Confederation (DGB). In: ukdgb.de. January 1, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Hans Böckler - The father of coal and steel co-determination. In: boeckler.de . Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
- ↑ How the Mecki came about. In: meckifan.de, Uschi Herchenbach. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ↑ picclick.de, PicClick LLC: Hörzu 43/1949 ( Memento from 23 August 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Overview of the events from 1945-2004. In: deutscheundpolen.de, rbb . Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ^ The BDI and its Presidents, 1949-2016. In: bdi.de . February 1, 2017, accessed December 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Classifying apparatus and method, United States Patent 2612994. In: freepatentsonline.com, Patents Online, LLC. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
- ^ Hans Buchheim : Deutschlandpolitik 1949-1972 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-421-06199-8 , p. 81 .
- ↑ 1, 2, X - It's Toto's birthday. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . October 16, 1984. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .