1927 in Germany
Events in the year 1927 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- President - Paul von Hindenburg
- Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx
Events
- 10 January - The film Metropolis is released.
- 19–21 August - The 3rd Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg and the propaganda film Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens is made at this rally.
- 16 September - President Paul von Hindenburg repudiates German responsibility for the Great War
- 23 November - Germany and Poland sign a trade pact
- Date unknown:
- * Uncertainty principle introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg
- * Emil Lerp invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw.
Births
- 4 January - Claus Jacobi, German journalist
- 5 January - Dieter Henrich, German philosopher
- 12 January - Ignaz Bubis, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
- 18 January - Werner Liebrich, German international footballer
- 26 January - Hubert Schieth, German football manager
- 28 January - Karl Bögelein, German international footballer and coach
- 31 January - Werner Leich, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Thuringia
- 2 February - Bruno Flierl, German architect
- 3 February - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire
- 4 February - Horst Ehmke, German politician
- 11 February - Dieter Eppler, German television actor
- 13 February - Herbert Pilch, German linguist and celtologist
- 16 February - Ludwig Averkamp, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church
- 21 February - Reinhard Appel, German journalist
- 8 March - Werner Potzernheim, German cyclist
- 11 March - Joachim Fuchsberger, German television presenter and actor
- 13 March - Gabriel Bach, Israeli State Attorney, Eichmann trial prosecutor, jurist, Israeli Supreme Court Justice
- 15 March - Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist
- 21 March - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
- 24 March - Martin Walser, German writer
- 25 March - Heinz Kunert, German engineer
- 26 March - Bernhard Philberth, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian
- 7 April - Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter
- 12 April - Günther Leib, opera singer
- 16 April - Pope Benedict XVI
- 17 April - Margot Honecker, German politician
- 18 April - Erwin Eisch, German glass artist
- 1 May - Horst Drinda, German actor
- 4 May - Peter Boenisch, German journalist
- 4 May - Trude Herr, singer
- 5 May - Robert Spaemann, German philosopher
- 9 May
- * Manfred Eigen, German biophysical chemist
- * Wim Thoelke, German television presenter
- 10 May - Albert Friedlander, German rabbi and teacher
- 18 May - Egon Monk, German film director and writer
- 22 May - Hubert Luthe, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
- 23 May - Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian and cabaret artist
- 27 May - Peter Malkin, German-born Israeli Mossad agent who captured Adolf Eichmann
- 29 May - Charlotte Kerr, German actress, writer and journalist
- 30 May - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer
- 10 June - Hugo Budinger, German field hockey player
- 29 June - Karl Ravens, German politician
- 16 July
- * Lothar Blumhagen, German actor
- * Alois Eisenträger, German footballer
- 18 July - Kurt Masur, German conductor
- 5 August - Rolf Wütherich, German automotive engineer, racing driver and aviator
- 21 August - Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher
- 23 August - Walter Giller, German actor
- 27 August - Liselott Linsenhoff, German equestrian
- 2 September - Tzvi Avni, German-born Israeli composer
- 20 September - Peter Borgelt, German actor
- 2 October - Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian
- 4 October - Wolf Kahn, German-American painter
- 5 October - Rolf Herricht, German actor and comedian
- 16 October - Günter Grass, Danzig-born writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 17 October - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician
- 19 October - Hans Schäfer, German footballer
- 27 October - Thomas Nipperdey, German historian
- 1 November - Marcel Ophuls, German documentary film maker
- 5 November - Armin Weiss, German chemist and politician
- 9 November - Shlomo "Chich" Lahat, German-born Israeli general and politician serving as the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv
- 21 November - Barbara Rütting, German actress
- 8 December - Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist
- 31 December - Dieter Noll, German writer
Deaths
- January 3 - Carl Runge, German mathematician and physicist
- January 10 - Heinrich von Gossler, German general
- January 30 - Friedrich Koch, German teacher, composer, cellist
- February 16 - Carl von Opel, German automotive pioneer
- April 30 - Friedrich von Scholtz, German general
- May 5 - Franziska Tiburtius, German doctor
- May 26 - Hermann von Stein, German general
- July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.
- July 8 - Max Hoffmann, German general
- October 18 - Ludwig Darmstaedter, German chemist
- October 20 - Eugen von Knilling, German politician
- October 30 - Maximilian Harden, German journalist