1956 in Germany

← 1955 1954 1953 1956 in Germany → 1957 1958 1959
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See also:	Other events of 1956 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1956 in Germany.

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Births

• 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
• 7 January - Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
• 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
• 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
• 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
• 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
• 24 July - Carmen Nebel, television presenter
• 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
• 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
• 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
• 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
• 5 December - Klaus Allofs, footballplayer

Deaths

• 3 January - Joseph Wirth, German politican, Chancellor of Germany (born 1879)
• 13 January - Lyonel Feininger, German painter (born 1871)
• 20 February - Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born 1881)
• 26 February - Rudolf Kanzler.surveyor and politician (born 1873)
• 13 April - Emil Nolde, German painter (born 1867)
• 7 July - Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born 1886)
• 14 August - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (born 1898)
• 25 December - Robert Walser, German writer (born 1878)