* 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician, Vice Chancellor of Germany

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

* 1948 – Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

* 1948 – Georg Brunnhuber, German politician

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

* 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer

* 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general ( d. 1948 )

* 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German nazi physician ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

* 1948 – Herbert Wiesinger, German pairs skater

* 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German comedian and actor

* 1948 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

The Kiel Canal (, NOK ), known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal until 1948, is a long canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

** German Reichsmark, German coinage from 1924 to 1948

** East German Mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990

* 1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician

* 1948 – Theodor Morell, German nazi physician ( b. 1886 )

the Yugoslav Claims Fund the sum of $17,000,000 being the amount paid by the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia pursuant to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 ; ;

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Erhard's decision to lift many price controls in 1948 ( despite opposition from both the social democratic opposition and Allied authorities ), plus his advocacy of free markets, helped set the Federal Republic on its strong growth from wartime devastation.

The jury has not been used in Germany since, except that between 1948 and 1950 ( during and after the American occupation but prior to the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany ) Bavaria returned to jury trial as it had existed before the Emminger Decrees.

In 1948, the Federal Capital Territory of Pakistan was created, comprising approximately of Karachi and surrounding areas, but this was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1961.

Erhard's decision, as economics director for the British and American occupation zones, to lift many price controls in 1948, despite opposition from both the social democratic opposition and Allied authorities, and his consistent advocacy of free markets, helped set the Federal Republic on its phenomenal growth path.

* The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia ( 1945 – 1948 )

The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is sometimes referred to as a Soviet satellite, though it broke from the Soviet Union in the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, with the Cominform offices being moved from Belgrade to Bucharest, and subsequently initiated formation of the Non-Aligned Movement.

CBS also waited until 1948 to begin network operations because it was waiting for the Federal Communications Commission to approve its color television system ( which it eventually did not ).

The Netherlands set up the Bijeenkomst voor Federaal Overleg ( BFO ) ( or Federal Consultative Assembly ), a body comprising the leadership of the federal states, and charged with the formation of a United States of Indonesia and an interim government by the end of 1948.

Several uranium and vanadium mines were opened in the area, and a uranium processing mill was operated in Monticello by the Federal Government from 1948 to 1960.

In 1948, the U. S. Federal Government purchased the mill and reopened it in 1949 as a converted uranium and vanadium processing plant.

* Germany: Parlamentarischer Rat ( Parliamentary Council ) ( 1948 ) – Drafted the Basic Law of the Federal Republic for ratification by the Länder.

Wartime advances in electronics had opened up large swaths of high frequency to practical use, and in 1948 the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) started a series of meetings on the use of what would become the UHF channels.

In the 1948 case of Perez v. Sharp, Andrea Perez — a Mexican-American woman listed as White — and Sylvester Davis — an African American man — the Supreme Court of California recognized that interracial bans on marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution.

* Federal Register of Electoral College Votes, 1948 Election

In 1948, he was a member of the Parlamentarischer Rat ( Parliamentary Council ) at Bonn with considerable influence on the drafting of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany ( Grundgesetz ).

* Malaysia: Federal Legislative Council of Malaya ( 1948 – 1957 ; replaced by the Parliament of Malaya and subsequently in 1963, the Parliament of Malaysia )

In a May 1948 article that appeared in the American Economic Review, Kefauver also proposed that more staff and money be allocated to the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and to the Federal Trade Commission ; that new legislation to make it easier to prosecute big corporations be enacted ; and that the danger of monopoly should be publicized more.

** 1948 – 1999 / 2001 German Mark or Deutsche Mark ( D-Mark, DM ), the currency in the western zones of occupation and the later Federal Republic of Germany as well as in Berlin ( West )

Lastly, on 30 September 1948, Federal recognition was granted to the 170th Fighter Squadron, the precursor to the 183d Fighter Wing, with 60 men meeting Thursday nights at the State Armory.

Titoism is a variant of Marxism – Leninism named after Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, primarily used to describe the specific socialist system built in Yugoslavia after its refusal of the 1948 Resolution of the Cominform, when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia refused to take further dictates from the Soviet Union. Today, Titoism is present in all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, especially in Serbia and Croatia.

In 1948, the venue was changed to the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois following an appeal to the United States Supreme Court ( in United States v. National City Lines Inc .) who felt that there was evidence of conspiracy to monopolize the supply of buses and supplies.