1988 in Germany
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Events in the year 1988 in Germany.
Incumbents[]
West Germany[]
- President - Richard von Weizsäcker
- Chancellor – Helmut Kohl
East Germany[]
- Head of State – Erich Honecker
- Head of Government – Willi Stoph
Events[]
- 12 - 23 February - 38th Berlin International Film Festival
- 31 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
- 28 August – Ramstein air show disaster
- 7 October - East German Republic Day Parade of 1988
Births[]
- 18 January - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player[1]
- 20 January - Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
- 29 February - Benedikt Höwedes, German football player
- 2 March - Simon Terodde, German football player
- 12 March - Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist
- 14 March - Rico Freimuth, German athlete
- 12 April - Lisa Unruh, German archer[2]
- 29 April - Julian Reus, German athlete
- 8 June - Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist
- 19 July - Kevin Großkreutz, German football player
- 3 September - Jérôme Boateng, German football player
- 9 September - Fiona Erdmann, German model
- 3 October - Max Giesinger, German singer
- 5 October - Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
- 15 October - Mesut Özil, football player
- 1 December - Nadia Hilker, German actress and model
- 16 December - Mats Hummels, German football player
Deaths[]
- 20 January - Paul Esser, German actor (born 1913)
- 21 January - Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (born 1925)
- 28 January - Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy (born 1911)
- 9 March - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician (born 1904)
- 9 May - Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1923)
- 27 May - Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1906)
- 20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (born 1912)
- 27 July - Brigitte Horney, German actress (born 1911)
- 5 September - Gert Fröbe, German actor (born 1913)
- 6 September - Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director (born 1910)
- 3 October - Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (born 1915)
- 9 October - Felix Wankel, German engineer (born 1902)
- 14 October - Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1912)
- 20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (born 1911)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ 1988 in Germany at the Women's Tennis Association
- ^ "Lisa UNRUH - Olympic | Germany". International Olympic Committee. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
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