1927 in Germany

Events in the year 1927 in Germany.

National level

 * President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)


 * Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre)

Events

 * 10 January - The film Metropolis is released.
 * 19–21 August - The 3rd Nazi Party Congress is held in Nuremberg and the propaganda film Eine Symphonie des Kampfwillens is made at this rally.
 * 16 September - President Paul von Hindenburg repudiates German responsibility for the Great War
 * 23 November - Germany and Poland sign a trade pact
 * Date unknown:
 * Uncertainty principle introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg
 * Emil Lerp invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw.

Births

 * 4 January - Claus Jacobi, German journalist (died 2013)
 * 5 January - Dieter Henrich, German philosopher (died 2022)
 * 12 January - Ignaz Bubis, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1999)
 * 18 January - Werner Liebrich, German international footballer (died 1995)
 * 26 January - Hubert Schieth, German football manager (died 2013)
 * 28 January - Karl Bögelein, German international footballer and coach (died 2016)
 * 31 January - Werner Leich, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Thuringia (died 2022)
 * 2 February - Bruno Flierl, German architect (died 2023)
 * 3 February - Friedrich Karl Flick, German industrialist and billionaire (died 2006)
 * 4 February - Horst Ehmke, German politician (died 2017)
 * 11 February - Dieter Eppler, German television actor (died 2008)
 * 13 February - Herbert Pilch, German linguist and celtologist (died 2018)
 * 16 February - Ludwig Averkamp, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church (died 2013)
 * 21 February - Reinhard Appel, German journalist (died 2011)
 * 8 March - Werner Potzernheim, German cyclist (died 2014)
 * 11 March - Joachim Fuchsberger, German television presenter and actor (died 2014)
 * 13 March - Gabriel Bach, Israeli State Attorney, Eichmann trial prosecutor, jurist, Israeli Supreme Court Justice (1982–1997) (died 2022)
 * 15 March - Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
 * 21 March - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (died 2016)
 * 24 March - Martin Walser, German writer (died 2023)
 * 25 March - Heinz Kunert, German engineer (died 2012)
 * 26 March - Bernhard Philberth, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian (died 2010)
 * 7 April - Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter (died 2004)
 * 12 April - Günther Leib, opera singer (died 2024)
 * 16 April - Pope Benedict XVI (died 2022)
 * 17 April - Margot Honecker, German politician (died 2016)
 * 18 April - Erwin Eisch, German glass artist (died 2022)
 * 1 May - Horst Drinda, German actor (died 2005)
 * 4 May - Peter Boenisch, German journalist (died 2005)
 * 4 May - Trude Herr, singer (died 1991)
 * 5 May - Robert Spaemann, German philosopher (died 2018)
 * 9 May
 * Manfred Eigen, German biophysical chemist
 * Wim Thoelke, German television presenter (died 1995)
 * 10 May - Albert Friedlander, German rabbi and teacher (died 2004)
 * 18 May - Egon Monk, German film director and writer (died 2007)
 * 22 May - Hubert Luthe, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 2014)
 * 23 May - Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian and cabaret artist (died 2013)
 * 27 May - Peter Malkin, German-born Israeli Mossad agent who captured Adolf Eichmann (died 2005)
 * 29 May - Charlotte Kerr, German actress, writer and journalist (died 2011)
 * 30 May - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (died 1956)
 * 10 June - Hugo Budinger, German field hockey player (died 2017)
 * 29 June - Karl Ravens, German politician (died 2017)
 * 16 July
 * Lothar Blumhagen, German actor (died 2023)
 * Alois Eisenträger, German footballer (died 2017)
 * 18 July - Kurt Masur, German conductor (died 2015)
 * 5 August - Rolf Wütherich, German automotive engineer, racing driver and aviator (died 1981)
 * 21 August - Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher (died 2017)
 * 23 August - Walter Giller, German actor (died 2011)
 * 27 August - Liselott Linsenhoff, German equestrian (died 1999)
 * 2 September - Tzvi Avni, German-born Israeli composer
 * 20 September - Peter Borgelt, German actor (died 1994)
 * 2 October - Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian (died 2021)
 * 4 October - Wolf Kahn, German-American painter (died 2020)
 * 5 October - Rolf Herricht, German actor and comedian (died 1981)
 * 16 October - Günter Grass, Danzig-born writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2015)
 * 17 October - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (died 2012)
 * 19 October - Hans Schäfer, German footballer (died 2017)
 * 27 October - Thomas Nipperdey, German historian (died 1992)
 * 1 November - Marcel Ophuls, German documentary film maker
 * 5 November - Armin Weiss, German chemist and politician (died 2010)
 * 9 November - Shlomo "Chich" Lahat, German-born Israeli general and politician serving as the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv
 * 21 November - Barbara Rütting, German actress
 * 8 December - Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (died 1998)
 * 31 December - Dieter Noll, German writer (died 2008)

Deaths

 * January 3 - Carl Runge, German mathematician and physicist (born 1856)
 * January 10 - Heinrich von Gossler, German general (born 1841)
 * January 30 - Friedrich Koch, German teacher, composer, cellist (born 1862)
 * February 16 - Carl von Opel, German automotive pioneer (born 1869)
 * April 30 - Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (born 1854)
 * May 5 - Franziska Tiburtius, German doctor (born 1843)
 * May 26 - Hermann von Stein, German general (born 1854)
 * July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. (born 1853)
 * July 8 - Max Hoffmann, German general (born 1869)
 * October 18 - Ludwig Darmstaedter, German chemist (born 1845)
 * October 20 - Eugen von Knilling, German politician (born 1856)
 * October 30 - Maximilian Harden, German journalist (born 1861)