1928 in Germany
Events in the year 1928 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
Events
- May - October – Pressa held in Cologne
- 20 May – 1928 German federal election
- 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor
Births
- 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian
- 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen,
- 3 January – Klaus Schulze, Olympic rower
- 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist
- 16 January – Manfred Schukowski, astronomer
- 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician
- 31 January - Michael Degen, actor
- 16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman
- 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich
- 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
- 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author
- 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
- 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
- 8 April
- * Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor
- * Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
- 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor
- 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal
- 29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster
- 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author
- 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist
- 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician
- 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
- 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
- 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor
- 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary
- 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
- 28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian
- 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician
- 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist
- 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar
- 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
- 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist
- 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter
- 12 November
- * Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank
- * Werner Klumpp, politician
Deaths
- 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist
- 27 February
- * Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble
- * Jürgen Kröger, German architect
- 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher
- 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate
- 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince
- 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral