1987 in Germany

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Events in the year 1987 in Germany .

Incumbents

• President – Richard von Weizsäcker
• Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

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 ^[1]
• 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 (d. 2019)
• 25 October – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
• 11 December
  • Violetta Bock, politician ^[2]
  • Peter Scholze, German mathematician

Deaths

• 15 January – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure; born 1926) ^[3]
• 29 January – Otto Klemperer, physicist (born 1899)
• 1 February – Gustav Knuth, German actor (born 1901)
• 8 February – Max Seydewitz, German politician (born 1892)
• 10 February – Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter (born 1925)
• 13 March – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany (born 1909)
• 26 March – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (born 1902)
• 8 May – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (born 1910)
• 7 July – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (born 1922)
• 10 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (born 1901)
• 26 August – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (born 1897)
• 5 September – Wolfgang Fortner, German composer (born 1907)
• 16 October – Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1906)
• 28 November – Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (born 1905)
• 9 December – Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914)
• 18 December – Conny Plank, German musician (born 1940)
• 22 December – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (born 1902)
• 31 December – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (born 1924)

See also

• 1987 in German television

References

1. Boyd, Gerald M. (June 13, 1987). "Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2008.
2. "Abgeordnete - Violetta Bock" (in German). Berlin, Germany: Bundestag . Retrieved 24 February 2025.
3. Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Locus Press. 1987. p. 413.