Events in the year 1955 in Germany.
Incumbents President – Theodor Heuss Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer Second Adenauer cabinet
Events
15 May - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1955 24 June - 5 July - 5th Berlin International Film Festival 2 July - Tierpark Berlin opened. 15 July - 18 September - documenta 1 in Kassel 11 August - 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision 20 September - 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 7 November - Norbert Eder, German footballer (died 2019) 10 November - Roland Emmerich, German film director, screenwriter, and producer 11 November - Friedrich Merz, German politician 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)
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