# 1947 in Germany

Events in the year 1947 in Germany.

## Incidents

* The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947.

## Events

* January 4 - German magazine Der Spiegel was founded.
* IG Farben Trial
* Flick Trial
* Krupp Trial
* Pohl trial
* Doctors' trial
* Judges' Trial
* Milch Trial
* Hostages Trial

## Births

* January 5 - Rita Kühne, German athlete
* January 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
* January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter
* January 20 - Chris Karrer, German musician (died 2024)
* February 14 - Heide Rosendahl, German athlete
* February 20 - Henry Hübchen, German actor
* April 1 - Ingrid Steeger, German comedian
* April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician (died 2020)
* April 11 - Uli Edel, German film director
* May 3 - Götz Aly, German journalist, historian and political scientist
* May 20 - Sky du Mont, German actor
* May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
* June 1 - Konstantin Wecker, German singer-songwriter
* June 6 - Peter Lenk, German sculptor
* June 16 - Gunther Kaufmann, actor (died 2012)
* June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk, German philosoph
* July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German physicist
* July 25 - Mickey Scott, German-born American baseball player (died 2011)
* August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer (died 2022)
* August 11 - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (died 2000)
* August 27 - Fritz Schramma, German politician
* September 3 - Nikolaus Schneider, German theologian and Protestant bishop
* September 4 - Peter Behrens, German musician (died 2016)
* September 29 - Jörg van Essen, German politician and lawyer
* October 2 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (died 2013)
* October 26 - Christian Ude, German politician
* October 27 - Gunter Demnig, German artist
* November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician (died 1992)
* December 2 - Rudolf Scharping, German politician
* December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German hockey player
* December 21 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German political militant (died 2022)

## Deaths

* January 3 - Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet (born 1876)
* January 31 - Franz Ritter von Epp, German general (born 1868)
* February 1 - Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician (born 1876)
* February 5 - Hans Fallada, German writer (born 1893)
* February 6 - Max Gülstorff, German actor (born 1882)
* April 1 - Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882)
* May 20 - Philipp Lenard, German physicist (born 1862)
* June 22 — Gotthard Fliegel, German geographer (born 1873)
* July 13 - Carl Hoffmann, German film director (born 1885)
* October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858)
* November 5 - Fritz Schumacher, German architect (born 1869)
* November 11 - Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (born 1883)
* November 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921)
* November 30 - Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (born 1892)
* December 1 - Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1877)
* December 3 - Heinrich Hetsch, German physician (born 1873)
* December 25 - Otto Falckenberg, German theatre director and writer (born 1873)