1988 in Germany

Events in the year 1988 in West Germany and East Germany.

Incumbents

West Germany

East Germany

Events

12 - 23 February — 38th Berlin International Film Festival
31 March — Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
28 August — Ramstein air show disaster

Births

18 January — Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
20 January — Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
29 February — Benedikt Höwedes, German football player
2 March — Simon Terodde, German football player
12 March — Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist
14 March — Rico Freimuth, German athlete
12 April — Lisa Unruh, German archer
29 April — Julian Reus, German sprinter
8 June — Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist
19 July — Kevin Großkreutz, German football player
3 September — Jérôme Boateng, German football player
9 September — Fiona Erdmann, German model
3 October — Max Giesinger, German singer
5 October — Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
15 October — Mesut Özil, football player
1 December — Nadia Hilker, German actress and model
16 December — Mats Hummels, German football player

Deaths

20 January — Paul Esser, German actor
21 January — Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
28 January — Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy
9 March — Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Chancellor of West Germany
9 May — Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
27 May — Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor
27 July — Brigitte Horney, German actress
5 September — Gert Fröbe, German actor
6 September — Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director
7 September — Werner Felfe, East German statesman and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
3 October — Franz Josef Strauss, 8th Minister-President of Bavaria
9 October — Felix Wankel, German engineer
14 October — Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker