1956 in Germany

Events in the year 1956 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * President – Theodor Heuss
 * Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

 * May 1 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956
 * June 22 - July 3 - 6th Berlin International Film Festival
 * October 27 - Saar Treaty

Births

 * 5 January - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, politician
 * 7 January
 * Leonard Lansink, actor
 * Uwe Ochsenknecht, actor
 * 21 January - Jürgen Kehrer, author
 * 16 February - Bodo Ramelow, politician
 * 25 February - Michel Friedman, lawyer, politician and talk show host
 * 27 February - Rosemarie Gabriel, swimmer
 * 28 March - Evelin Jahl, discus thrower
 * 20 March - Theo Breuer, poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher
 * 12 April - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer
 * 4 May - Ulrike Meyfarth, high jumper
 * 18 May - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (died 2017)
 * 31 May - Fritz Hilpert, German musician
 * 1 June – Petra Morsbach, German author
 * 3 June - Thomas Flach, German sailor
 * 6 June - Hans-Peter Ferner, German athlete
 * 8 June - Udo Bullmann, German politician
 * 4 July - Bettina Böttinger, television presenter
 * 13 July - Günter Jauch, television presenter and journalist
 * 24 July
 * Carmen Nebel, television presenter
 * Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, journalist
 * 1 August - Axel Milberg, actor
 * 12 August - Brigitte Kraus, athlete
 * 18 August - Rainer Woelki, bishop of Roman Catholic Church
 * 24 August - Nina Ruge, journalist and television presenter
 * 21 September - Joachim Herrmann, politician
 * 24 September - Ilona Slupianek, shot putter
 * 26 September - Jutta Allmendinger, social scientist
 * 30 September - Désirée Nick, actress and comedian
 * 3 October - Ralph Morgenstern, actor
 * 6 October - Rüdiger Helm, canoeist
 * 20 November - Olli Dittrich, actor and comedian
 * 23 November - Karin Guthke, Olympic diver
 * 28 November - Michael Eissenhauer, art historian
 * 30 November - Heinz Rudolf Kunze, singer
 * 5 December - Klaus Allofs, football player
 * 9 December - Henriette Reker, politician

Deaths

 * 1 January — Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer (born 1878)
 * 3 January — Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1879)
 * 13 January — Lyonel Feininger, German painter (born 1871)
 * 7 February - Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (born 1890)
 * 20 February — Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (born 1881)
 * 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, surveyor and politician (born 1873)
 * 21 March - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (born 1884)
 * 13 April — Emil Nolde, German painter (born 1867)
 * 16 April — Richard Kolkwitz, German botanist (born 1873)
 * 29 April - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born 1876)
 * 10 May - F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (born 1879)
 * 22 May - Walther Kossel, German physicist (born 1888)
 * 29 May — Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (born 1883)
 * 8 June - Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (born 1881)
 * 17 June – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (born 1892)
 * 7 July — Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (born 1886)
 * 14 August:
 * Bertolt Brecht, German writer (born 1898)
 * Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and Nazi party chancellor (born 1873)
 * 21 August - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1891)
 * 12 September - Hans Carossa, German novelist (born 1878)
 * 13 October - Robert Lehr, German politician (born 1883)
 * 2 November - Leo Baeck, German rabbi (born 1873)
 * 13 November - Werner Haas, German motorcycle racer (born 1927)
 * 15 November – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (born 1888)
 * 25 December — Robert Walser, German writer (born 1878)