# 1956 in Germany

Events in the year 1956 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* President – Theodor Heuss
* Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

## Events

* May 1 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956
* June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival
* 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
* 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)