1987 in Germany

Events in the year 1987 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * President – Richard von Weizsäcker
 * Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

Events

 * 25 January – West German federal election, 1987
 * 20 February–3 March – 37th Berlin International Film Festival
 * 12 March – The third cabinet Kohl led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in.
 * 26 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987
 * 17 May – Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1987
 * 12 June–20 September – documenta 8
 * 12 June – "Tear down this wall!" speech by Ronald Reagan in Berlin
 * September – Olof Palme Peace March
 * Date unknown: German company Mannesmann acquired German company ZF Sachs.

Births

 * 8 January – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
 * 20 January – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
 * 9 February – Magdalena Neuner, German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships
 * 4 April – Sami Khedira, German footballer
 * 19 April – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 6)
 * 20 April
 * Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
 * Michael Klauß, German footballer
 * 28 April – Robin Schulz, musician, DJ and record producer
 * 29 April – Christian Reitz, German sport shooter
 * 18 June – Vanessa Hegelmaier, German model
 * 3 July
 * Maximilian Mauff, German actor
 * Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
 * 22 August – Mischa Zverev, German tennis player
 * 18 September – Johanna Uekermann, German politician
 * 4 October – Marina Weisband, German politician
 * 25 October – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
 * 11 December – Peter Scholze, German mathematician

Deaths

 * 15 January – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure; born 1926)
 * 29 January – Otto Klemperer, physicist (born 1899)
 * 1 February – Gustav Knuth, German actor (born 1901)
 * 8 February – Max Seydewitz, German politician (born 1892)
 * 10 February – Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter (born 1925)
 * 13 March – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany (born 1909)
 * 26 March – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (born 1902)
 * 8 May – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (born 1910)
 * 7 July – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (born 1922)
 * 26 August – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (born 1897)
 * 5 September – Wolfgang Fortner, German composer (born 1907)
 * 16 October – Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1906)
 * 28 November – Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (born 1905)
 * 9 December – Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914)
 * 18 December – Conny Plank, German musician (born 1940)
 * 22 December – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (born 1902)
 * 31 December – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (born 1924)