Events in the year 1987 in Germany.
Incumbents President – Richard von Weizsäcker Chancellor – Helmut Kohl
Events 25 January – West German federal election, 1987 20 February–3 March – 37th Berlin International Film Festival 12 March – The third cabinet Kohl led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in. 26 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 17 May – Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1987 12 June–20 September – documenta 8 12 June – "Tear down this wall!" speech by Ronald Reagan in Berlin September – Olof Palme Peace March Date unknown: German company Mannesmann acquired German company ZF Sachs.
Births
8 January – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player 20 January – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter 9 February – Magdalena Neuner, German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships 4 April – Sami Khedira, German footballer 19 April – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 6) 20 April Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer Michael Klauß, German footballer 28 April Hanka Mittelstädt, German politician Robin Schulz, musician, DJ and record producer 29 April – Christian Reitz, German sport shooter 18 June – Vanessa Hegelmaier, German model 3 July Maximilian Mauff, German actor Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver 22 August – Mischa Zverev, German tennis player 18 September – Johanna Uekermann, German politician 1 October – Daniel Adlung, German footballer 4 October – Marina Weisband, German politician 20 October – Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and false claimant to Holocaust descent (d. 2019) 25 October – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast 11 December Violetta Bock, politician Peter Scholze, German mathematician
Deaths
15 January – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure; born 1926) 29 January – Otto Klemperer, physicist (born 1899) 1 February – Gustav Knuth, German actor (born 1901) 8 February – Max Seydewitz, German politician (born 1892) 10 February – Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter (born 1925) 13 March – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany (born 1909) 26 March – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (born 1902) 8 May – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (born 1910) 7 July – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (born 1922) 10 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (born 1901) 26 August – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (born 1897) 5 September – Wolfgang Fortner, German composer (born 1907) 16 October – Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1906) 28 November – Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (born 1905) 9 December – Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914) 18 December – Conny Plank, German musician (born 1940) 22 December – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (born 1902) 31 December – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (born 1924)
See also 1987 in German television
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