1954 in Germany

Events in the year 1954 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * President – Theodor Heuss
 * Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

 * 18 to 29 June - 4th Berlin International Film Festival
 * 4 July - Germany wins in 1954 FIFA World Cup Final
 * 17 October - East German general election, 1954
 * Date unknown - Wittig reaction was discovered by Georg Wittig.
 * Date unknown - The Angle grinder is invented by German company Ackermann + Schmitt (FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH).
 * Date unknown - The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.

Births

 * 4 January - Birgit Havenstein, German composer
 * 16 January - Wolfgang Schmidt, German track and field athlete
 * 19 January
 * Katharina Thalbach, German actress
 * Joachim Deckarm, German handball player
 * 21 January - Thomas de Maizière, German politician
 * 7 February - Dieter Bohlen, songwriter, producer, singer and television personality
 * 10 February - Peter Ramsauer, German politician
 * 19 February - Reiner Haseloff, German politician
 * 26 February - Prince Ernst August of Hanover, German head of the deposed royal House of Hanover
 * 1 March - Volker Wieker, German chief of staff of the Bundeswehr
 * 6 March - Harald Schumacher, German football player
 * 26 March
 * Jutta Speidel, German actress
 * Udo Di Fabio, German judge
 * 1 April - Dieter Müller, German football player
 * 9 April - Arnold Stadler, German writer
 * 16 April - Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German author (died 2023)
 * 19 April - Ingrid Peters, German singer
 * 20 April
 * Gero von Boehm, German journalist
 * Martin Stratmann, German electrochemist and materials scientist
 * 21 April - Sabine Engel, German discus thrower
 * 1 May - Eckart Diesch, German sailor
 * 24 May - Rainald Goetz, German author, playwright and essayist
 * 8 June - Jochen Schümann, German sailor
 * 10 June - Ute Frevert, German historian
 * 13 June - Heiner Koch, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
 * 20 June - Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer and mathematician
 * 3 July - Herbert Hainer, German businessman
 * 17 July - Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
 * 25 July - Jürgen Trittin, German politician
 * 28 July - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
 * 14 August - Berthold Albrecht, German entrepreneur (died 2012)
 * 11 October - Sascha Hehn, German actor
 * 12 October - Norbert Klaar, German sport shooter
 * 3 November - Siegfried Mauser, German pianist
 * 25 November - Rudolf Mellinghoff, German judge
 * 14 December - Eva Mattes, German actress
 * 24 December - Lorenz Caffier, German politician

Deaths

 * January 15 - Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician (born 1883)
 * January 19 - Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (born 1886)
 * January 22 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1872)
 * February 6 - Friedrich Meinecke, German historian (born 1862)
 * March 6
 * Hermann Dietrich, German politician (born 1879)
 * Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1884 in the United Kingdom)
 * March 7 — Otto Diels, German chemist (born 1876)
 * April 14 -Siegfried von Roedern, German politician (born 1870)
 * May 6 - Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (born 1886)
 * May 19 - Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1891)
 * June 14 - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor (born 1882)
 * June 27 - Theodor Loos, German actor (born 1883)
 * July 1 - Thea von Harbou, German actress, novelist and film director (born 1888)
 * July 16 - Herms Niel, German composer (born 1888)
 * August 4 - Harald Paulsen, German actor (born 1895)
 * August 7 - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (born 1874)
 * August 25- Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (born 1886)
 * September 5 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (born 1860)
 * September 27 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (born 1881)
 * October 29 - Hermann Ehlers, German politician (born 1904)
 * October 30 - Gustav Dahrendorf, German politician (born 1901)
 * November 11 - Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (born 1886)
 * November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (born 1886)
 * December 14 - Emil Rausch, German swimmer (born 1883)
 * December 30 - Günther Quandt, German industrialist (born 1881)
 * Date unknown — Franz Brandt, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)