At the EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest, West Germany again was (1–2) in the preliminary round, taking third place in the four-team group to be relegated to the classification tournament. They won one game in the first classification round, losing three to take fifth place of the five-team group despite having scored exactly as many points as their opponents over the course of the four games. Their final game was a match-up against Denmark for 17th place, which West Germany won 51–49.