Events in the year 1988 in West Germany and East Germany.
Incumbents
West Germany President - Richard von Weizsäcker Federal Chancellor – Helmut Kohl
East Germany General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany – Erich Honecker Chairman of the State Council – Erich Honecker Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Willi Stoph
Events 12 - 23 February — 38th Berlin International Film Festival 31 March — Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 28 August — Ramstein air show disaster
Births 18 January — Angelique Kerber, German tennis player 20 January — Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player 29 February — Benedikt Höwedes, German football player 2 March — Simon Terodde, German football player 12 March — Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist 14 March — Rico Freimuth, German athlete 12 April — Lisa Unruh, German archer 29 April — Julian Reus, German sprinter 8 June — Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist 19 July — Kevin Großkreutz, German football player 3 September — Jérôme Boateng, German football player 9 September — Fiona Erdmann, German model 3 October — Max Giesinger, German singer 5 October — Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter 15 October — Mesut Özil, football player 1 December — Nadia Hilker, German actress and model 16 December — Mats Hummels, German football player
Deaths
20 January — Paul Esser, German actor (b. 1913) 21 January — Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (b. 1925) 28 January — Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy (b. 1911) 9 March — Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1904) 9 May — Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (b. 1923) 27 May — Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1906) 20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (b. 1912) 27 July — Brigitte Horney, German actress (b. 1911) 5 September — Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913) 6 September — Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director (b. 1910) 7 September — Werner Felfe, East German statesman and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (b. 1928) 3 October — Franz Josef Strauss, 8th Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1915) 9 October — Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902) 14 October — Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1912) 20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (b. 1911)
See also 1988 in German television
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