• 14 January –
Burkhard Heim, German theoretical physicist (b.
1925) • 31 January –
Heinz Starke, German politician (b.
1911) • 28 March –
Günther Treptow, German opera singer (b.
1907) • 26 April –
Ruth Hellberg, German actress (b.
1906) • 25 June –
Kurt Hoffmann, German film director (b.
1910) • 5 July –
Hannelore Kohl, German first wife of German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl (b.
1933) • 8 July –
Ernst Baier, German figure skater (b.
1905) • 31 July –
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b.
1910) • 20 September –
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, German journalist (b.
1918) • 2 October –
Franz Biebl, German composer (b.
1906) • 5 October –
Emilie Schindler, German WWII humanitarian (b.
1907) • 10 October –
Gabriele Wülker, German social scientist and civil servant (b.
1911) • 13 October –
Fritz Fromm, German handball player, Olympic champion (
1936) (b.
1913) • 23 November –
Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (b.
1928) ==See also==