1955 in Germany

Events in the year 1955 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * President – Theodor Heuss
 * Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

 * May 15 - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1955
 * June 24 - July 5 - 5th Berlin International Film Festival
 * July 2 - Tierpark Berlin opened.
 * July 15 - September 18 - documenta 1 in Kassel
 * August 11 - 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision
 * September 20 - Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR

Births

 * 4 January - Wolfgang Tiefensee, German politician
 * 10 January
 * Volker Mosblech, German politician (d. 2024)
 * Michael Schenker, German guitarist, songwriter and producer
 * 14 January - Jan Fedder, German actor (died 2019)
 * 16 January - Martin Roth, German museum director (died 2017)
 * 18 January - Gerburg Jahnke, German comedian
 * 25 January - Petra Gerster, German journalist
 * 1 February
 * Hans Werner Olm, German comedian
 * Christian, Duke of Oldenburg, head of the Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg
 * 10 February - Bernd Martin, German football player (died 2018)
 * 6 March - Friedbert Pflüger, German politician
 * 8 March - Thomas Bellut, German journalist
 * 11 March - Nina Hagen, German musician
 * 21 March - Bärbel Wöckel, German sprinter
 * 26 March - Verena Butalikakis, German politician (died 2018)
 * 13 April - Ole von Beust, German politician
 * 29 April - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (died 2016)
 * 15 May - Claudia Roth, German politician
 * 15 May - Alexander Pusch, German fencer
 * 26 May - Doris Dörrie, German film director
 * 2 June - Heiko von der Leyen, German physician
 * 10 June - Annette Schavan, German politician
 * 11 June - Marie Gruber, German actress
 * 25 June - Martin Petzold, German opera singer (died 2023)
 * 1 July - Rosemarie Wenner, German Methodist bishop
 * 29 July - Christian Tramitz, German actor, comedian, voice actor and author
 * 9 August - Udo Beyer, German track and field athlete
 * 15 August - Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter (died 2016)
 * 20 August - Helge Schneider, German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor
 * 25 August - Gerd Müller, German politician
 * 2 September - Claus Kleber, German journalist
 * 14 September - Wilhelm Huxhorn, German footballer (died 2010)
 * 20 September
 * Georg Christoph Biller, German choral conductor (died 2022)
 * Lilo Wanders, German transvestite entertainer, comedian and theatre/television host
 * 22 September - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German football player and trainer
 * 25 September - Peter Müller, German politician
 * 25 September - Richy Müller, German actor
 * 30 September - Andy Bechtolsheim, German businessman
 * 11 October - Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer
 * 25 October - Peter Nocke, German swimmer
 * 10 November - Roland Emmerich, German film director, screenwriter, and producer
 * 8 December - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor
 * 15 December - Renate Künast, German politician
 * 22 December - Thomas C. Südhof, German biochemist
 * 31 December - Gregor Braun, German cyclist

Deaths

 * 15 January — Johannes Baader, German architect, writer and artist (born 1875)
 * 24 January - Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch, German anatomist (born 1868)
 * 20 February — Eugen Schmalenbach, German economist (born 1873)
 * 24 March - Otto Gessler, German politician (born 1875)
 * 18 April — Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (born 1879)
 * 29 May - Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (born 1885)
 * 29 June - Ernst Legal, German actor (born 1881)
 * 29 June — Max Pechstein, German painter (born 1881)
 * 2 August - Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, German nobleman (born 1869)
 * 12 August — Thomas Mann, German author (born 1875)
 * 13 August — Wilhelm Kreis, German architect (born 1873)
 * 19 August - Otto Weiß, Luftwaffe officer (born 1907)
 * 25 August - Heinrich Spoerl, German author (born 1887)
 * 31 August:
 * Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, art professor and typographer (born 1889)
 * Eberhard Koebel, German youth leader and writer (born 1907)
 * 9 October — Joseph Vollmer, German engineer (born 1871)
 * 15 December — Otto Braun, German politician (born 1872)
 * 19 December - Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (born 1882)
 * 25 December - Angela Zigahl, German teacher and politician (born 1885)