14 May 1956Treaty of RomeWalter Hallstein
Hallstein publicly endorses the European integration strategy emerging from the Spaak Report in an address in Bonn.
Historical records for Germany in 1956, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Hallstein publicly endorses the European integration strategy emerging from the Spaak Report in an address in Bonn.
Supports using the Spaak Report as the basis for treaty negotiations.
Hallstein represents the Federal Republic at Venice when the Six approve the Spaak Report as a negotiating basis.
Ophüls heads the Federal German delegation when negotiations on the Common Market and Euratom formally open in Brussels.
Helps manage German negotiating positions on the common market before the Treaties of Rome.
Directs Der Hauptmann von Kopenick.
Directs Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.
Doenitz is released from prison
Ophüls directs German negotiating work at Val Duchesse as the treaty articles are developed in detail.
Von Brentano coordinates Federal German foreign policy as ministers review unresolved questions from the Brussels negotiations.
Death of Leo Baeck
Begins German rearmament
Winner of the FA Cup with Manchester City despite playing for the last 15 mins with a broken neck.
Winner of the Footballer of the Year Award
It was not until 1956 that Walter Baade corrected the distance scale based on Cepheid variable stars, and ushered in the first accurate measures of the expansion rate
Appointed Minister of Defence
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