1952 in Germany
Events in the year 1952 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- Liquidation of German company IG Farben started.
- 25 April - The three states of Württemberg-Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern and South Baden merge to form the modern southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg.
- 26 May - Porsche Club Hohensyburg is founded.
- 12 to 25 June - 2nd Berlin International Film Festival
- 24 June: German newspaper BILD was founded.
Births
- 12 January - Florian Havemann, German judge, painter and composer
- 19 January - Nadiuska, German television actress
- 22 January - Aloys Wobben, German businessman
- 31 January - Jan Hofer, German journalist
- 13 February - Jörg Hacker, German microbiologist
- 17 February - Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
- 18 February - Ulrich Eicke, German canoeist
- 22 February - Thomas Wessinghage, German athlete
- 3 March - Wolfgang Kubicki, German football player
- 13 March - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
- 18 March - Michaela May, German actress
- 24 March - Reinhard Genzel, German astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 4 April - Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper
- 14 April - Udo Voigt politician
- 29 April - Barbara Hendricks, German politician
- 10 May - Ulrich Hahnen, German politician
- 10 May - Roland Kaiser, German singer
- 12 May - Norbert Stolzenburg, German footballer and manager
- 17 May - Bernhard Brink, German singer
- 2 June - Hildegard Krekel, German actress
- 12 June - Cornelia Hanisch, German fencer
- 25 June - Klaus Teuber, German board game designer
- 26 July - Heiner Brand, German handball player
- 28 July - Cordt Schnibben, German author and journalist
- 3 August - Axel Schäfer, German politician
- 6 August - Christoph Biemann, German writer
- 19 August
- * Gabriela Grillo, German equestrian, Olympic champion
- * Bodo Hombach, German politician
- 29 August - Falk Hoffmann, German diver
- 6 September - Dominik Graf, German film director
- 21 September - Anneliese Michel, German student
- 2 October - Peter Koslowski German philosopher and academic
- 28 October - Thomas Dinger, German musician
- 21 November - Corny Littmann, German entrepreneur, entertainer, theater owner
- 24 November - Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author
- 26 November - Jan Philipp Reemtsma, German literary scholar and political activist
- 3 December - Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist and actor
- 17 December - Jochen Bachfeld, German boxer
- undated - Ernst Stötzner, German actor
Deaths
- 22 January - Alexander Behm, German physicist
- 25 January - Aloys, 7th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German politician
- 23 February - Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general
- 15 April - Ludwig Kaas, German politician
- 12 June - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
- 3 July - Carl Tanzler, radiologic technologist
- 4 July - Karl Platen, German actor
- 6 July - Gertrud Wolle, German actress
- 23 July - Carl Severing, German politician
- 31 July - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer
- 12 August - Richard Otto, German physician
- 13 August - Wilm Hosenfeld, officer
- 18 December - Ernst Stromer, German paleontologist