1947 in Germany

Incidents

• The Karlslust dance hall fire occurred on 8 February 1947.

Events

• January 4 - German magazine Der Spiegel was founded.
• IG Farben Trial
• Flick Trial
• Krupp Trial
• Pohl trial
• Doctors' trial
• Judges' Trial
• Milch Trial
• Hostages Trial

Births

• January 5 - Rita Kühne, German athlete
• January 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
• January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter
• January 20 - Chris Karrer, German musician
• February 14 - Heide Rosendahl, German athlete
• February 20 - Henry Hübchen, German actor
• March 9 - Inge Hecht, German politician
• April 1 - Ingrid Steeger, German comedian
• April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician
• April 11 - Uli Edel, German film director
• May 3 - Götz Aly, German journalist, historian and political scientist
• May 20 - Sky du Mont, German actor
• May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
• June 1 - Konstantin Wecker, German singer-songwriter
• June 6 - Peter Lenk, German sculptor
• June 16 - Gunther Kaufmann, actor
• June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk, German philosoph
• July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German physicist
• July 25 - Mickey Scott, German-born American baseball player
• August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer
• August 11 - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian
• August 27 - Fritz Schramma, German politician
• September 3 - Nikolaus Schneider, German theologian and Protestant bishop
• September 4 - Peter Behrens, German musician
• September 29 - Jörg van Essen, German politician and lawyer
• October 2 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor
• October 26 - Christian Ude, German politician
• October 27 - Gunter Demnig, German artist
• November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician
• December 2 - Rudolf Scharping, German politician
• December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German hockey player
• December 21 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German political militant

Deaths

• January 3 - Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet
• January 31 - Franz Ritter von Epp, German general
• February 1 - Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician
• February 5 - Hans Fallada, German writer
• February 6 - Max Gülstorff, German actor
• April 1 - Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945
• May 20 - Philipp Lenard, German physicist
• June 22 — Gotthard Fliegel, German geographer
• July 13 - Carl Hoffmann, German film director
• October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist
• November 5 - Fritz Schumacher, German architect
• November 11 - Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg
• November 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright
• November 30 - Ernst Lubitsch, German film director
• December 1 - Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist
• December 3 - Heinrich Hetsch, German physician
• December 25 - Otto Falckenberg, German theatre director and writer