1956 in Germany
Events in the year 1956 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- May 1 - Germany in the [Eurovision Song Contest 1956]
- June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival
- October 27 - Saar Treaty
Births
- 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
- 7 January
- * Leonard Lansink, actor
- * Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
- 21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author
- 16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician
- 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
- 27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer
- 28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower
- 20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher
- 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
- 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
- 18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist
- 31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician
- 1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author
- 3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor
- 6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete
- 8 June - Udo Bullmann, German politician
- 3 July - Gerhard Trabert, German politician
- 4 July - Bettina Böttinger, television presenter
- 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
- 24 July
- * Carmen Nebel, television presenter
- * Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, journalist
- 1 August - Axel Milberg, actor
- 12 August - Brigitte Kraus, athlete
- 18 August - Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
- 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
- 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
- 26 September - Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist
- 30 September - Désirée Nick, actress and comedian
- 3 October - Ralph Morgenstern, actor
- 6 October - Rüdiger Helm, canoeist
- 15 November - Edgar Hartung, canoeist
- 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
- 23 November - Karin Guthke, Olympic diver
- 28 November - Michael Eissenhauer, art historian
- 30 November - Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer
- 5 December - Klaus Allofs, football player
- 5 December - Bettina Gaus, journalist
- 9 December - Henriette Reker, politician
Deaths
- 1 January — Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer
- 3 January — Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 13 January — Lyonel Feininger, German painter
- 7 February - Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher
- 20 February — Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist
- 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician
- 21 March - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright
- 13 April — Emil Nolde, German painter
- 16 April — Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist
- 29 April - Wilhelm [Ritter von Leeb], German field marshal
- 10 May - F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor
- 22 May - Walther Kossel, German physicist
- 29 May — Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
- 8 June - Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- 17 June – Paul Rostock, German surgeon
- 7 July — Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist
- 14 August:
- * Bertolt Brecht, German writer
- * Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and Nazi party chancellor
- 21 August - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
- 12 September - Hans Carossa, German novelist
- 13 October - Robert Lehr, German politician
- 2 November - Leo Baeck, German rabbi
- 13 November - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer
- 15 November – Emma Richter, German paleontologist
- 25 December — Robert Walser, German writer