1988 in Germany

Incumbents

West Germany

• President - Richard von Weizsäcker
• Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

  East Germany

• Head of State – Erich Honecker
• Head of Government – Willi Stoph

  Events

• 12 - 23 February - 38th Berlin International Film Festival
• 31 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
• 28 August – Ramstein air show disaster
• 7 October - East German Republic Day Parade of 1988

  Births

• 18 January - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
• 20 January - Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
• 29 February - Benedikt Höwedes, German football player
• 2 March - Simon Terodde, German football player
• 12 March - Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist
• 14 March - Rico Freimuth, German athlete
• 12 April - Lisa Unruh, German archer
• 29 April - Julian Reus, German athlete
• 8 June - Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist
• 19 July - Kevin Großkreutz, German football player
• 3 September - Jérôme Boateng, German football player
• 9 September - Fiona Erdmann, German model
• 3 October - Max Giesinger, German singer
• 15 October - Mesut Özil, football player
• 16 December - Mats Hummels, German football player

  Deaths

• 20 January - Paul Esser, German actor
• 21 January - Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 28 January - Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy
• 9 March - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician
• 9 May - Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church
• 27 May - Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor
• 27 July - Brigitte Horney, German actress
• 5 September - Gert Fröbe, German actor
• 6 September - Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director
• 3 October - Franz Josef Strauss, German politician
• 9 October - Felix Wankel, German engineer
• 14 October - Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• 20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker