Events in the year 1947 in Germany.
Incidents
The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947.
Events January 4 - German magazine Der Spiegel was founded. IG Farben Trial Flick Trial Krupp Trial Pohl trial Doctors' trial Judges' Trial Milch Trial Hostages Trial
Births January 5 - Rita Kühne, German athlete January 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter January 20 - Chris Karrer, German musician (died 2024) February 14 - Heide Rosendahl, German athlete February 20 - Henry Hübchen, German actor March 9 - Inge Hecht, German politician (died 2019) April 1 - Ingrid Steeger, German comedian (died 2023) April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician (died 2020) April 11 - Uli Edel, German film director May 3 - Götz Aly, German journalist, historian and political scientist May 20 - Sky du Mont, German actor May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German businessman June 1 - Konstantin Wecker, German singer-songwriter June 6 - Peter Lenk, German sculptor June 16 - Gunther Kaufmann, actor (died 2012) June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk, German philosoph July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German physicist July 25 - Mickey Scott, German-born American baseball player (died 2011) August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer (died 2022) August 11 - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (died 2000) August 27 - Fritz Schramma, German politician September 3 - Nikolaus Schneider, German theologian and Protestant bishop September 4 - Peter Behrens, German musician (died 2016) September 29 - Jörg van Essen, German politician and lawyer October 2 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (died 2013) October 26 - Christian Ude, German politician October 27 - Gunter Demnig, German artist November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician (died 1992) December 2 - Rudolf Scharping, German politician December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German hockey player December 21 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German political militant (died 2022)
Deaths January 3 - Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet (born 1876) January 31 - Franz Ritter von Epp, German general (born 1868) February 1 - Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician (born 1876) February 5 - Hans Fallada, German writer (born 1893) February 6 - Max Gülstorff, German actor (born 1882) April 1 - Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882) May 20 - Philipp Lenard, German physicist (born 1862) June 22 — Gotthard Fliegel, German geographer (born 1873) July 13 - Carl Hoffmann, German film director (born 1885) October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858) November 5 - Fritz Schumacher, German architect (born 1869) November 11 - Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (born 1883) November 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921) November 30 - Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (born 1892) December 1 - Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1877) December 3 - Heinrich Hetsch, German physician (born 1873) December 25 - Otto Falckenberg, German theatre director and writer (born 1873)
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