Events in the year 1984 in Germany.
Incumbents President - Karl Carstens (until 30 June), Richard von Weizsäcker (starting 1 July) Chancellor – Helmut Kohl
Events 17–28 February - 34th Berlin International Film Festival 29 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 17 June - 1984 European Parliament election in West Germany 24 August - Launch of the all-new Opel Kadett, which will be built in West Germany as well as other countries including Belgium and the United Kingdom. 7 October - East German Republic Day Parade of 1984 December - The Opel Kadett is voted European Car of the Year, the first Opel car to win the award. Date unknown: German company Grundig is taken over by Netherlands company Philips.
Births
1 January – Christian Eigler, German footballer 9 January – Benjamin Danso, German rugby player 11 January – Mark Forster, German singer-songwriter 19 January – Aljona Savchenko, pair skater 25 January – Stefan Kießling, German football player 24 March – Philipp Petzschner, tennis player 26 March – Jürgen Spieß, weightlifter 31 May – Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (died 2018) 13 June – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German athlete 20 June – Dennis Malura, footballer 7 July – Stephanie Stumph, German actress 1 August – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer. 5 August – Helene Fischer, German singer 29 August Christian Lell, German footballer Alexander Hug, rugby player Helge Meeuw, German swimmer 29 September – Per Mertesacker, German footballer. 11 October – Sebastian Ernst, German athlete 18 October Robert Harting, German discus thrower Annekatrin Thiele, German rower 13 October – Stefan Gruhner, German politician 24 October – Christian Reif, German athlete 24 November – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German ski racer 28 December – Martin Kaymer, German golfer 31 December – David Maaß, German politician
Deaths
26 January – Leny Marenbach, German actress (born 1907) 22 February – Uwe Johnson, German writer (born 1932) 6 March – Martin Niemöller, German theologian and Lutheran pastor (born 1892) 21 March – August Frank, Nazi German official, SS leader and convict at the Nuremberg trials (born 1898) 30 March – Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904) 10 April – Willy Semmelrogge, German actor (born 1923) 15 April – Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1901)C. Herzenberg: Grete Hermann: Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting, Volume 53, Number 5, 11–15 April 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri (abstract) 17 July – Karl Wolff, German Nazi SS Officer (born 1900) 9 October – Heinz von Cleve, German stage and film actor (born 1897) 21 October – Adolf Fischer, German actor (born 1900) 23 November – Paul Dahlke, German actor (born 1904) 28 November – Hans Speidel, German general (born 1897) 28 November – Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, German politician (born 1906) 11 December – Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization (born 1917) 16 December – Karl Deichgräber, German classical philologist (born 1903)
See also 1984 in German television
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