1955 in Germany

• President – Theodor Heuss • Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer • Second Adenauer cabinet == Events ==

• 15 May - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1955 • 24 June - 5 July - 5th Berlin International Film Festival • 2 July - Tierpark Berlin opened. • 15 July - 18 September - documenta 1 in Kassel • 11 August - 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision • 20 September - Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR == Births ==

• 4 January - Wolfgang Tiefensee, German politician • 10 January • Volker Mosblech, German politician (d. 2024) • Michael Schenker, German guitarist, songwriter and producer • 14 January - Jan Fedder, German actor (died 2019) • 16 January - Martin Roth, German museum director (died 2017) • 18 January - Gerburg Jahnke, German comedian • 25 January - Petra Gerster, German journalist • 1 February • Hans Werner Olm, German comedian • Christian, Duke of Oldenburg, head of the Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg • 10 February - Bernd Martin, German football player (died 2018) • 6 March - Friedbert Pflüger, German politician • 8 March - Thomas Bellut, German journalist • 11 March - Nina Hagen, German musician • 21 March - Bärbel Wöckel, German sprinter • 26 March - Verena Butalikakis, German politician (died 2018) • 13 April - Ole von Beust, German politician • 29 April - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (died 2016) • 15 May - Claudia Roth, German politician • 15 May - Alexander Pusch, German fencer • 26 May - Doris Dörrie, German film director • 2 June - Heiko von der Leyen, German physician • 10 June - Annette Schavan, German politician • 11 June - Marie Gruber, German actress • 25 June - Martin Petzold, German opera singer (died 2023) • 1 July - Rosemarie Wenner, German Methodist bishop • 29 July - Christian Tramitz, German actor, comedian, voice actor and author • 9 August - Udo Beyer, German track and field athlete • 15 August - Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter (died 2016) • 20 August - Helge Schneider, German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor • 25 August - Gerd Müller, German politician • 2 September - Claus Kleber, German journalist • 14 September - Wilhelm Huxhorn, German footballer (died 2010) • 20 September • Georg Christoph Biller, German choral conductor (died 2022) • Lilo Wanders, German transvestite entertainer, comedian and theatre/television host • 22 September - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German football player and trainer • 25 September - Peter Müller, German politician • 25 September - Richy Müller, German actor • 30 September - Andy Bechtolsheim, German businessman • 11 October - Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer • 25 October - Peter Nocke, German swimmer • 7 November - Norbert Eder, German footballer (died 2019) • 10 November - Roland Emmerich, German film director, screenwriter, and producer • 11 November - Friedrich Merz, German politician • 8 December - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor • 15 December - Renate Künast, German politician • 22 December - Thomas C. Südhof, German biochemist • 31 December - Gregor Braun, German cyclist ==Deaths==

• 15 January — Johannes Baader, German architect, writer and artist (born 1875) • 24 January - Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch, German anatomist (born 1868) • 20 February — Eugen Schmalenbach, German economist (born 1873) • 24 March - Otto Gessler, German politician (born 1875) • 18 April — Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (born 1879) • 29 May - Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (born 1885) • 29 June - Ernst Legal, German actor (born 1881) • 29 June — Max Pechstein, German painter (born 1881) • 2 August - Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, German nobleman (born 1869) • 12 August — Thomas Mann, German author (born 1875) • 13 August — Wilhelm Kreis, German architect (born 1873) • 19 August - Otto Weiß, Luftwaffe officer (born 1907) • 25 August - Heinrich Spoerl, German author (born 1887) • 31 August: • Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, art professor and typographer (born 1889) • Eberhard Koebel, German youth leader and writer (born 1907) • 9 October — Joseph Vollmer, German engineer (born 1871) • 15 December — Otto Braun, German politician (born 1872) • 19 December - Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (born 1882) • 25 December - Angela Zigahl, German teacher and politician (born 1885) ==References==