1988 in Germany

Events in the year 1988 in Germany.

West Germany

 * President - Richard von Weizsäcker
 * Chancellor – Helmut Kohl

East Germany

 * Head of State – Erich Honecker
 * Head of Government – Willi Stoph

Events

 * 12 - 23 February - 38th Berlin International Film Festival
 * 31 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
 * 28 August – Ramstein air show disaster
 * 7 October - East German Republic Day Parade of 1988

Births

 * 18 January - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
 * 20 January - Benjamin Ulrich, German rugby player
 * 29 February - Benedikt Höwedes, German football player
 * 2 March - Simon Terodde, German football player
 * 12 March - Sebastian Brendel, German sprint canoeist
 * 14 March - Rico Freimuth, German athlete
 * 12 April - Lisa Unruh, German archer
 * 29 April - Julian Reus, German athlete
 * 8 June - Lisa Brennauer, German cyclist
 * 19 July - Kevin Großkreutz, German football player
 * 3 September - Jérôme Boateng, German football player
 * 9 September - Fiona Erdmann, German model
 * 3 October - Max Giesinger, German singer
 * 5 October - Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
 * 15 October - Mesut Özil, football player
 * 1 December - Nadia Hilker, German actress and model
 * 16 December - Mats Hummels, German football player

Deaths

 * 20 January - Paul Esser, German actor (born 1913)
 * 21 January - Werner Nachmann, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (born 1925)
 * 28 January - Klaus Fuchs, physicist and spy (born 1911)
 * 9 March - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician (born 1904)
 * 9 May - Georg Moser, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1923)
 * 27 May - Ernst Ruska, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1906)
 * 20 July — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (born 1912)
 * 27 July - Brigitte Horney, German actress (born 1911)
 * 5 September - Gert Fröbe, German actor (born 1913)
 * 6 September - Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director (born 1910)
 * 3 October - Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (born 1915)
 * 9 October - Felix Wankel, German engineer (born 1902)
 * 14 October - Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1912)
 * 20 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (born 1911)