1947 in Germany

Events in the year 1947 in Germany.

Incidents

 * The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947.

Events

 * January 4 - German magazine Der Spiegel was founded.
 * IG Farben Trial
 * Flick Trial
 * Krupp Trial
 * Pohl trial
 * Doctors' trial
 * Judges' Trial
 * Milch Trial
 * Hostages Trial

Births

 * January 5 - Rita Kühne, German athlete
 * January 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
 * January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter
 * January 20 - Chris Karrer, German musician (died 2024)
 * February 14 - Heide Rosendahl, German athlete
 * February 20 - Henry Hübchen, German actor
 * April 1 - Ingrid Steeger, German comedian
 * April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician (died 2020)
 * April 11 - Uli Edel, German film director
 * May 3 - Götz Aly, German journalist, historian and political scientist
 * May 20 - Sky du Mont, German actor
 * May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
 * June 1 - Konstantin Wecker, German singer-songwriter
 * June 6 - Peter Lenk, German sculptor
 * June 16 - Gunther Kaufmann, actor (died 2012)
 * June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk, German philosoph
 * July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German physicist
 * July 25 - Mickey Scott, German-born American baseball player (died 2011)
 * August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer (died 2022)
 * August 11 - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (died 2000)
 * August 27 - Fritz Schramma, German politician
 * September 3 - Nikolaus Schneider, German theologian and Protestant bishop
 * September 4 - Peter Behrens, German musician (died 2016)
 * September 29 - Jörg van Essen, German politician and lawyer
 * October 2 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (died 2013)
 * October 26 - Christian Ude, German politician
 * October 27 - Gunter Demnig, German artist
 * November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician (died 1992)
 * December 2 - Rudolf Scharping, German politician
 * December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German hockey player
 * December 21 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German political militant (died 2022)

Deaths

 * January 3 - Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet (born 1876)
 * January 31 - Franz Ritter von Epp, German general (born 1868)
 * February 1 - Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician (born 1876)
 * February 5 - Hans Fallada, German writer (born 1893)
 * February 6 - Max Gülstorff, German actor (born 1882)
 * April 1 - Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882)
 * May 20 - Philipp Lenard, German physicist (born 1862)
 * June 22 — Gotthard Fliegel, German geographer (born 1873)
 * July 13 - Carl Hoffmann, German film director (born 1885)
 * October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858)
 * November 5 - Fritz Schumacher, German architect (born 1869)
 * November 11 - Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (born 1883)
 * November 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921)
 * November 30 - Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (born 1892)
 * December 1 - Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1877)
 * December 3 - Heinrich Hetsch, German physician (born 1873)
 * December 25 - Otto Falckenberg, German theatre director and writer (born 1873)