1985 in Germany

Incumbents

• President - Richard von Weizsäcker
• Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

  Events

• 15 - 26 February - 35th Berlin International Film Festival
• 21 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985
• 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal

  Births

• March 25 - Luise Heyer, German actress
• April 9 - Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter
• April 28 - Lucas Jakubczyk, German athlete
• May 6 - Theresa Underberg, German actress
• June 1 - Prince Christian of Hanover
• June 4 - Lukas Podolski, German football player
• June 20
• *Kai Hesse, footballer
• *Halil Savran, footballer
• *Katharina Schulze, politician
• June 27 - Nico Rosberg, Formula One racing driver
• July 10 - Mario Gómez, German football player
• July 19 - Friedrich Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
• August 27 - Daniel Küblböck, German singer
• September 12 - Sascha Klein, German swimmer
• November 15 - Claas Relotius, German journalist who admitted numerous instances of journalistic fraud
• November 21 - Nadine Müller, German athlete
• December 24 - Christina Schwanitz, German short putter

  Deaths

• February 10 - Werner Hinz, German actor
• April 10 - Klaus Scholder, ecclesiastical historian
• March 29 - Gerhard Stöck, German athlete
• May 8 - Karl Marx, German composer
• May 21 - Kurt Waitzmann, German actor
• May 30 - Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player
• April 6 - Mark Lothar, German composer
• April 7 - Carl Schmitt. German jurist and political theorist
• June 29 - Walter Rudi Wand, German judge
• July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer
• August 2 - Karl Heinz Stroux, German actor, theatre and filmdirector
• September 22 - Axel Springer, German journalist
• October 2 - Alex Möller, German politician
• November 12 - Willi Dehnkamp, German politician
• December 2 - Heinz Hoffmann, German politician
• December 26 - Margarete Schön, German actress

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