births
July 23, 1899
Gustav Heinemann, German lawyer and politician, 3rd President of West Germany (died 1976)
Gustav Heinemann
Gustav Walter Heinemann was a German politician who was President of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He served as mayor of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, and Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969.
List of presidents of Germany
A number of presidential offices have existed in Germany since the collapse of the German Empire in 1918.