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Events in the year 1948 in Germany.

Events

• March 1 - Bank deutscher Länder was founded.
• April 3 - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung is first published.
• April 5 - The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April 1948.
• June 24 - The Berlin Blockade started.
• August 1 - German magazine Stern was founded.
• October 2 - Hessischer Rundfunk started.
• IG Farben Trial
• Krupp Trial
• Pohl trial

Births

• January 16 - Gregor Gysi, German politician
• February 16 - Harald Range, German lawyer (died 2018)
• March 9 - Wolfgang Wieland, German lawyer and politician (died 2023)
• March 27 - Edgar Selge, German actor
• April 5 – Gisela Biedermann, Liechtensteiner physician and politician
• April 10 - Bernd Clüver, German singer (died 2011)
• April 12 - Joschka Fischer, German politician
• April 14 - Peter Urban, German radio journalist
• April 21 - Dieter Fromm, German athlete
• May 17 - Winfried Kretschmann, German politician
• May 25 - Klaus Meine, German singer
• May 31 - Jürgen Stark, German economist
• June 6 - Jürgen Marcus, German singer (died 2018)
• June 8
  • Jürgen von der Lippe, German comedian and actor
  • Hans-Josef Becker, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• June 20 - Johannes Friedrich, German Lutheran bishop
• June 30 - Wolf Erlbruch, German writer and children's book illustrator (died 2022)
• July 18 - Hartmut Michel, German biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
• July 22 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
• July 31 - Heinz Buschkowsky, German politician
• August 5 - Karlheinz Smieszek, German sport shooter
• September 1 - Jürgen Fitschen, German banker
• September 2 – Manfred Böckl, German novelist and popular historian
• October 28 - Wolfgang Ritter, German biologist
• November 4 - Claus Richter, German journalist
• November 16 - Norbert Lammert, German politician
• November 23 - Gabriele Seyfert, German figure skater
• November 24 - Christoph Bergner, German politician
• December 2
  • Reinhard Höppner, German politician
  • Christine Westermann, German journalist
  • Gebhard Fürst, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• December 6 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German singer
• December 20 - Beatrice Richter, actress and comedian

Deaths