1947 in Germany

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 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter
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)
References
1940s in Germany
Years of the 20th century in Germany
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