Incumbents

Events

West German chancellor since October 1969, and GDR vice president Willi Stoph meet in Erfurt (19 March) and in Kassel (21 May) - the start of a new Ostpolitik (new eastern policy)

26 March - the four ambassadors of the four powers meet to start negotiations about a Four Power Agreement on Berlin (which is agreed on 3 September 1971)
26 June - 7 July – 20th Berlin International Film Festival
12 August - the Treaty of Moscow between Western Germany and the Soviet Union is signed.
1 September: Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloyd
7 December – Warschauer Kniefall

22 March: Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg
14 June:
- Landtagswahl in Lower Saxony. The coalition of SPD and CDU ends; Minister President Alfred Kubel (SPD) forms his second cabinet
- Landtagswahl in North Rhine-Westphalia (the SPD-FDP-coalition keeps its majority; MP Heinz Kühn forms his second cabinet)
- Landtagswahl im Saarland: the SPD gets 27 seats and the CDU 23 seats. MP Franz-Josef Röder (CDU) forms his fourth cabinet.

15 January – Oktay Urkal, German boxer
23 January – Nicola Beer, German politician
28 January – Julia Jäger, German actress
29 January – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
2 February – Anton Hofreiter, German politician
5 February – Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
15 February – Jens Fiedler, German cyclist
18 March – Matthias Maurer, German astronaut
20 March – Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
18 April
- Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
- Esther Schweins, German comedian
20 April
- Sven Benken, German footballer and manager
- Chris Pfeiffer, German motorcycle racer and stuntman (died 2022)
25 May – Monica Lierhaus, German journalist
27 May – Bernhard, Margrave of Baden, German nobleman
7 June – Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
20 June – Andrea Nahles, German politician
6 July – Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (died 2016)
25 August – Claudia Schiffer, German model
8 September – Lars Vogt, German pianist (died 2022)
6 October – Corinna May, German singer
16 October – Mehmet Scholl, German football player and manager
15 November – Uschi Disl, German biathlete

5 January – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (born 1882)^[1]
16 February – Carl de Vogt, German actor (born 1885)
30 March – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, former chancellor of Germany (born 1885)
3 April – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (born 1897)
9 May – Franz Etzel, German politician (born 1902)
12 May – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1891)^[2]
3 June – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, liberal politician (born 1877)
6 June – Friedrich Köchling, Wehrmacht general (born 1893)
1 August – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate (born 1883)^[3]
10 August – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (born 1918)^[4]
25 September – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (born 1898)^[5]
3 October - Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1885)
4 November – Friedrich Kellner, German public servant and diarist (born 1885)
14 December – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (born 1876)

^ "Nobel prize winner dies". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Pennsylvania, U.S.). Associated Press. 6 January 1970. p. 26.
^ Leo Baeck Institute (1990). Catalog of the Archival Collections. Mohr Siebeck. p. 124. ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1.
^ Roswitha Schmid; Hans Adolf Krebs (1981). Otto Warburg: Cell Physiologist, Biochemist, and Eccentric. Clarendon Press. p. v.
^ "Bernd Aloïs Zimmermann". Dictionnaire de la musique (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^ Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 56: German Fiction Writers, 1914–1945. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by James Hardin, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1987. pp. 222–41.

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