1988 in Germany

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

Incumbents

West Germany

• President - Richard von Weizsäcker
• Federal Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

East Germany

• General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany – Erich Honecker
• Chairman of the State Council – Erich Honecker
• Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Willi Stoph

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 ^[1]
• 20 January — Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player ^[2]
• 29 February — Benedikt Höwedes, German football player
• 2 March — Simon Terodde, German football player
• 12 March — Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist ^[3]
• 14 March — Rico Freimuth, German athlete ^[4]
• 12 April — Lisa Unruh, German archer ^[5]
• 29 April — Julian Reus, German sprinter ^[6]
• 8 June — Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist ^[7]
• 19 July — Kevin Großkreutz, German football player
• 3 September — Jérôme Boateng, German football player
• 9 September — Fiona Erdmann, German model ^[8]
• 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 (b. 1913)
• 21 January — Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (b. 1925)
• 28 January — Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy (b. 1911)
• 9 March — Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1904)
• 9 May — Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (b. 1923)
• 27 May — Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1906)
• 20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (b. 1912)
• 27 July — Brigitte Horney, German actress (b. 1911)
• 5 September — Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
• 6 September — Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director (b. 1910)
• 7 September — Werner Felfe, East German statesman and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (b. 1928)
• 3 October — Franz Josef Strauss, 8th Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1915)
• 9 October — Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902)
• 14 October — Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1912)
• 20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (b. 1911)

See also

• 1988 in German television

References

1. "Angelique Kerber". wtatennis.com. Women's Tennis Association.
2. "TotalRugby - Spielerinformationen - Benjamin Ulrich". www.totalrugby.de. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
3. "Sebastian BRENDEL". ICF - Planet Canoe. 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
4. IOC. "Rico FREIMUTH". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2025-02-22. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
5. "Lisa UNRUH - Olympic | Germany". International Olympic Committee. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
6. "Julian REUS | Profile | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
7. IOC. "Lisa BRENNAUER". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2025-04-29. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
8. "Fiona Erdmann - Fashion Model | Models | Photos, Editorials & Latest News | The FMD". The FMD - FashionModelDirectory.com. Retrieved 2025-12-01.