1987 in Germany
Events in the year 1987 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 25 January – West [German federal election, 1987]
- 20 February–3 March – 37th Berlin International Film Festival
- 12 March – The third cabinet Kohl led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in.
- 26 March – Germany in the [Eurovision Song Contest 1987]
- 17 May – Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1987
- 12 June–20 September – documenta 8
- 12 June – "Tear down this wall!" speech by Ronald Reagan in Berlin
- September – Olof Palme Peace March
- Date unknown: German company Mannesmann acquired German company ZF Sachs.
Births
- 8 January – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
- 20 January – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
- 9 February – Magdalena Neuner, German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships
- 4 April – Sami Khedira, German footballer
- 19 April – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 6)
- 20 April
- *Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
- *Michael Klauß, German footballer
- 28 April
- *Hanka Mittelstädt, German politician
- *Robin Schulz, musician, DJ and record producer
- 29 April – Christian Reitz, German sport shooter
- 18 June – Vanessa Hegelmaier, German model
- 3 July
- * Maximilian Mauff, German actor
- * Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
- 22 August – Mischa Zverev, German tennis player
- 18 September – Johanna Uekermann, German politician
- 1 October – Daniel Adlung, German footballer
- 4 October – Marina Weisband, German politician
- 20 October – Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and false claimant to Holocaust descent
- 25 October – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
- 11 December
- *Violetta Bock, politician
- *Peter Scholze, German mathematician
Deaths
- 15 January – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer
- 29 January – Otto Klemperer, physicist
- 1 February – Gustav Knuth, German actor
- 8 February – Max Seydewitz, German politician
- 10 February – Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter
- 13 March – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany
- 26 March – Eugen Jochum, German conductor
- 8 May – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman
- 7 July – Hannelore Schroth, German actress
- 10 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor
- 26 August – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
- 5 September – Wolfgang Fortner, German composer
- 16 October – Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 28 November – Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director
- 9 December – Prince [Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914–1987)|Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover]
- 18 December – Conny Plank, German musician
- 22 December – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor
- 31 December – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge