1957 in Germany

Events

• 27 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
• 12 April - Göttingen Manifesto
• 21 June - 2 July - 7th Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 August - The Deutsche Bundesbank was established.
• 15 September - West German federal election, 1957
• 29 October The Third Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.

  Births

• 8 February - Imogen Kogge, Germa actor
• 18 February - Marita Koch, German athlete
• 8 March - Axel A. Weber, German economist, professor and banker
• 10 March - Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
• 14 March - Kai Krause, German computer scientist
• 18 May - Frank Plasberg, German journalist
• 24 May - Walter Moers, German comic creator and author
• 31 May - Ilse Junkermann, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany
• 17 June - Joachim Król, German actor
• 5 July - Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper
• 12 July - Götz Alsmann, German television presenter and musician
• 29 July - Ulrich Tukur, German actor
• 4 August Olaf Beyer, German athlete
• 18 August - Harald Schmidt, German actor, writer, columnist, comedian and television entertainer
• 26 August - Christian Schmidt, German politician
• 27 August - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 8 September - Christoph Eichhorn, German actor
• 10 September - Matthias Brenner, German actor
• 26 November - Matthias Reim, German singer
• 12 September - Hans Zimmer, German composer
• 20 September - Sabine Christiansen, German journalist
• 23 September - Suzanne von Borsody, German actress
• 29 September - Harald Schmid, German track and field athlete
• 21 October - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist
• 10 November - Ingo Metzmacher, German conductor
• 8 December - Hannelore Anke, German swimmer
• 12 December - Tom Gerhardt, German actor and comedian
• 29 December - Oliver Hirschbiegel, German film director
• 30 December - Johann Riederer, German sport shooter

  Deaths

• January 1 - Hans Wölpert, German weightlifter
• January 22 - Claire Waldoff, German singer
• January 31 - Christian Hülsmeyer, German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur
• February 1 - Friedrich Paulus, German field marshall
• February 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist
• February 13 - Gustav Mie, German physicist
• February 14 - Erich Ponto, German actor
• March 26 - Max Ophüls, German film director
• May 7 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer
• May 10 - Kurt von Tippelskirch, German general
• May 15 - Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, chemist
• June 21 - Johannes Stark, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate
• June 26 - Alfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and writer
• August 5 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• August 30 - Otto Suhr, German politician
• October 28 - Ernst Gräfenberg, physician and scientist
• October 29 - Rosemarie Nitribitt. German luxury call girl
• December 9 - Otto Landsberg, German politician
• December 27. Otto Nuschke, German politician