1928 in Germany

Events in the year 1928 in Germany.

National level

 * President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)


 * Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (to 28 June), Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (from 28 June)

Events

 * May - October – Pressa held in Cologne
 * 20 May – 1928 German federal election
 * 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor

Births

 * 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian
 * 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)
 * 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)
 * 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)
 * 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich
 * 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
 * 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (d. 2020)
 * 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
 * 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (d. 2021)
 * 8 April
 * Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024)
 * Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
 * 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022)
 * 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
 * 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)
 * 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024)
 * 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022)
 * 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
 * 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
 * 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor (d. 2017)
 * 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (d. 2014)
 * 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
 * 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
 * 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)
 * 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)
 * 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
 * 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist
 * 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (d. 1995)
 * 12 November
 * Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank (d. 2022)
 * Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851)
 * 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857)
 * 27 February
 * Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (born 1860)
 * Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)
 * 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874)
 * 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
 * 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)
 * 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)