Events in the year 1956 in Germany.
Incumbents President – Theodor Heuss Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer Second Adenauer cabinet
Events May 1 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival July 25 - the Wehrpflichtgesetz (Conscription law) startsBundesgesetzblatt October 27 - Saar Treaty
Births 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician 7 January Leonard Lansink, actor Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor 21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author 16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host 27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer 28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower 20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper 18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (died 2017) 31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician 1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author 3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor 6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete 8 June - Udo Bullmann, German politician 3 July - Gerhard Trabert, German politician 4 July - Bettina Böttinger, television presenter 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist 24 July Carmen Nebel, television presenter Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, journalist 1 August - Axel Milberg, actor 12 August - Brigitte Kraus, athlete 18 August - Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman Catholic Church 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter 26 September - Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist 30 September - Désirée Nick, actress and comedian 3 October - Ralph Morgenstern, actor 6 October - Rüdiger Helm, canoeist 15 November - Edgar Hartung, canoeist 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian 23 November - Karin Guthke, Olympic diver 28 November - Michael Eissenhauer, art historian 30 November - Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer 5 December - Klaus Allofs, football player 5 December - Bettina Gaus, journalist (d. 2021) 9 December - Henriette Reker, politician
Deaths
1 January — Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer (born 1878) 3 January — Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1879) 13 January — Lyonel Feininger, German painter (born 1871) 7 February - Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (born 1890) 20 February — Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born 1881) 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician (born 1873) 21 March - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (born 1884) 13 April — Emil Nolde, German painter (born 1867) 16 April — Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist (born 1873) 29 April - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born 1876) 10 May - F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (born 1879) 22 May - Walther Kossel, German physicist (born 1888) 29 May — Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (born 1883) 8 June - Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (born 1881) 17 June – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (born 1892) 7 July — Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born 1886) 14 August: Bertolt Brecht, German writer (born 1898) Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and Nazi party chancellor (born 1873) 21 August - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1891) 12 September - Hans Carossa, German novelist (born 1878) 13 October - Robert Lehr, German politician (born 1883) 2 November - Leo Baeck, German rabbi (born 1873) 13 November - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (born 1927) 15 November – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888) 25 December — Robert Walser, German writer (born 1878)
See also 1956 in German television
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