Events in the year 1927 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan) Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre)
Events 10 January - The film Metropolis is released. 19–21 August - The 3rd Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg and the propaganda film Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens is made at this rally. 16 September - President Paul von Hindenburg repudiates German responsibility for the Great War 23 November - Germany and Poland sign a trade pact Date unknown: Uncertainty principle introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg Emil Lerp invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw.
Births 4 January - Claus Jacobi, German journalist (died 2013) 5 January - Dieter Henrich, German philosopher (died 2022) 12 January - Ignaz Bubis, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1999) 18 January - Werner Liebrich, German international footballer (died 1995) 26 January - Hubert Schieth, German football manager (died 2013) 28 January - Karl Bögelein, German international footballer and coach (died 2016) 31 January - Werner Leich, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Thuringia (died 2022) 2 February - Bruno Flierl, German architect (died 2023) 3 February - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire (died 2006) 4 February - Horst Ehmke, German politician (died 2017) 11 February - Dieter Eppler, German television actor (died 2008) 13 February - Herbert Pilch, German linguist and celtologist (died 2018) 16 February - Ludwig Averkamp, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church (died 2013) 21 February - Reinhard Appel, German journalist (died 2011) 8 March - Werner Potzernheim, German cyclist (died 2014) 11 March - Joachim Fuchsberger, German television presenter and actor (died 2014) 13 March - Gabriel Bach, Israeli State Attorney, Eichmann trial prosecutor, jurist, Israeli Supreme Court Justice (1982–1997) (died 2022) 15 March - Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995) 21 March - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (died 2016) 24 March - Martin Walser, German writer (died 2023) 25 March - Heinz Kunert, German engineer (died 2012) 26 March - Bernhard Philberth, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian (died 2010) 7 April - Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (died 2004) 12 April - Günther Leib, opera singer (died 2024) 16 April - Pope Benedict XVI (died 2022) 17 April - Margot Honecker, German politician (died 2016) 18 April - Erwin Eisch, German glass artist (died 2022) 1 May - Horst Drinda, German actor (died 2005) 4 May - Peter Boenisch, German journalist (died 2005) 4 May - Trude Herr, singer (died 1991) 5 May - Robert Spaemann, German philosopher (died 2018) 9 May Manfred Eigen, German biophysical chemist Wim Thoelke, German television presenter (died 1995) 10 May - Albert Friedlander, German rabbi and teacher (died 2004) 18 May - Egon Monk, German film director and writer (died 2007) 22 May - Hubert Luthe, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 2014) 23 May - Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian and cabaret artist (died 2013) 27 May - Peter Malkin, German-born Israeli Mossad agent who captured Adolf Eichmann (died 2005) 29 May - Charlotte Kerr, German actress, writer and journalist (died 2011) 30 May - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (died 1956) 10 June - Hugo Budinger, German field hockey player (died 2017) 29 June - Karl Ravens, German politician (died 2017) 16 July Lothar Blumhagen, German actor (died 2023) Alois Eisenträger, German footballer (died 2017) 18 July - Kurt Masur, German conductor (died 2015) 5 August - Rolf Wütherich, German automotive engineer, racing driver and aviator (died 1981) 21 August - Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher (died 2017) 23 August - Walter Giller, German actor (died 2011) 27 August - Liselott Linsenhoff, German equestrian (died 1999) 2 September - Tzvi Avni, German-born Israeli composer 20 September - Peter Borgelt, German actor (died 1994) 2 October - Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian (died 2021) 4 October - Wolf Kahn, German-American painter (died 2020) 5 October - Rolf Herricht, German actor and comedian (died 1981) 16 October - Günter Grass, Danzig-born writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2015) 17 October - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (died 2012) 19 October - Hans Schäfer, German footballer (died 2017) 27 October - Thomas Nipperdey, German historian (died 1992) 1 November - Marcel Ophuls, German documentary film maker 5 November - Armin Weiss, German chemist and politician (died 2010) 9 November - Shlomo "Chich" Lahat, German-born Israeli general and politician serving as the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv 21 November - Barbara Rütting, German actress 8 December - Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (died 1998) 31 December - Dieter Noll, German writer (died 2008)
Deaths January 3 - Carl Runge, German mathematician and physicist (born 1856) January 10 - Heinrich von Gossler, German general (born 1841) January 30 - Friedrich Koch, German teacher, composer, cellist (born 1862) February 16 - Carl von Opel, German automotive pioneer (born 1869) April 30 - Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (born 1854) May 5 - Franziska Tiburtius, German doctor (born 1843) May 26 - Hermann von Stein, German general (born 1854) July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. (born 1853) July 8 - Max Hoffmann, German general (born 1869) October 18 - Ludwig Darmstaedter, German chemist (born 1845) October 20 - Eugen von Knilling, German politician (born 1856) October 30 - Maximilian Harden, German journalist (born 1861)
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