Events in the year 1968 in Germany .

Incumbents

• President – Heinrich Lübke
• Chancellor – Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Events

• Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968
• May 30 - German Emergency Acts
• June 21 - July 2 - 18th Berlin International Film Festival
• June 27-October 4 - 4. documenta
• Neue Nationalgalerie opened in Berlin.

Births

• January 2 – Matthias Berger, German politician
• January 11 – Benjamin List, German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• February 27 - Samuel Kummer, German organist (died 2024)
• March 6 - Smudo, German singer
• April 6 - Oliver Korittke, German actor
• April 8 - Gabriele Fähnrich, German gymnast
• April 20 - Jens Weidmann, German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements
• April 21 - Tita von Hardenberg, German journalist and television presenter
• April 25 - Thomas Strunz, German football player
• April 29 - Michael Herbig, German film actor and director
• April 29 - Jürgen Vogel, German actor
• May 1 - Oliver Bierhoff, German football player
• May 2 - August François von Finck, German businessman
• May 5 - Peter Frank, German lawyer
• May 9 - Hardy Krüger Jr., German actor
• May 19 - Sonja Zietlow, German television presenter
• June 8 - Torsten Gutsche, German canoeist
• June 29 - Tilo Kummer, German politician
• July 16 - Marcel Machill, German journalist
• August 2 - Stefan Effenberg, German football player
• August 17 - Anja Fichtel, German fencer
• August 31 – Alexander Haugg, German actor
• September 11 - Andreas Tews, German boxer
• September 23 - Gabriele Reinsch, German athlete
• September 29 - Svenja Schulze, German politician
• October 13 - Kay Bluhm, German canoeist
• October 18 - Michael Stich, German tennis player
• November 19
  • Katarina Barley, German politician
  • Anja Vanrobaeys, Belgian politician ^[1]
• November 21 - Inka Bause, German actress, singer and television presenter
• November 24 - Martin Schneider, German footballer
• December 18 - Mario Basler, German footballer
• December 30 - Thomas D, German singer

Deaths

• January 2 - Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer (born 1892)
• February 23 - Emil Hirschfeld, German athlete (born 1903)
• February 28 - Hans Lohmeyer, German politician and jurist (born 1881)
• April 16 — Albert Betz, German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology (born 1885)
• May 25 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (born 1881)
• May 30 - Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1908)
• June 18 - Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general (born 1885)
• June 23 — Andreas von Aulock, Imperial Army officer and Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
• July 1 - Fritz Bauer, German judge (born 1903)
• July 19 - Käthe Kruse notable pioneer of German doll-making (born 1883)
• July 20 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (born 1908)
• July 28 - Otto Hahn, German chemist (born 1879)
• December 16 - Jürgen Moll, German football player (born 1939)

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