1956 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

  Events

• May 1 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956
• June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival
• October 27 - Saar Treaty

  Births

• 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
• 7 January
• * Leonard Lansink, actor
• * Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
• 21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author
• 16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician
• 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
• 27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer
• 28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower
• 20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher
• 28 March - Evelin Jahl, German discus thrower
• 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
• 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
• 18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist
• 31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician
• 1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author
• 3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor
• 6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete
• 4 July - Bettina Böttinger, television presenter
• 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
• 24 July
• * Carmen Nebel, television presenter
• * Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, journalist
• 1 August - Axel Milberg, actor
• 12 August - Brigitte Kraus, athlete
• 18 August - Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
• 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
• 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
• 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
• 26 September - Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist
• 30 September - Désirée Nick, actress and comedian
• 3 October - Ralph Morgenstern, actor
• 6 October - Rüdiger Helm, canoeist
• 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
• 23 November - Karin Guthke, Olympic diver
• 28 November - Michael Eissenhauer, art historian
• 30 November - Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer
• 5 December - Klaus Allofs, football player
• 9 December - Henriette Reker, politician

  Deaths

• 1 January — Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer
• 3 January — Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
• 13 January — Lyonel Feininger, German painter
• 7 February - Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher
• 20 February — Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist
• 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician
• 21 March - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright
• 13 April — Emil Nolde, German painter
• 16 April — Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist
• 29 April - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal
• 10 May - F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor
• 22 May - Walther Kossel, German physicist
• 29 May — Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
• 8 June - Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• 7 July — Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist
• 14 August:
• * Bertolt Brecht, German writer
• * Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and Nazi party chancellor
• 21 August - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
• 12 September - Hans Carossa, German novelist
• 13 October - Robert Lehr, German politician
• 2 November - Leo Baeck, German rabbi
• 13 November - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer
• 15 November – Emma Richter, German paleontologist
• 25 December — Robert Walser, German writer