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
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