1980 in Germany

Events in the year 1980 in Germany.

Incumbents

18 to 29 February - 30th Berlin International Film Festival{{cite web |title=30th Berlin International Film Festival |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1980/01_jahresblatt_1980/01_Jahresblatt_1980.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826103524/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1980/01_jahresblatt_1980/01_Jahresblatt_1980.html |archive-date=26 August 2010 |access-date=15 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}
20 March - Germany participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, held in The Hague.{{cite web |title=Final of The Hague 1980 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980/final |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412104322/https://eurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980/final |archive-date=12 April 2021 |access-date=12 April 2021 |publisher=European Broadcasting Union}}
26 September - Oktoberfest bombing{{Cite web |last=AFP |date=8 July 2020 |title=Germany: 1980 Oktoberfest bombing a 'far-right attack' |url=https://www.dw.com/en/germany-1980-oktoberfest-bombing-a-far-right-attack/a-54085190 |website=Deutsche Welle}}
5 October - West German federal election, 1980
6 November - The Third Schmidt cabinet led by Helmut Schmidt was sworn in.
unknown date - First modern guided bus opens in Essen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.citytransport.info/OBahn.htm|title=Bus Priority Systems (Bus Rapid Transit) - Special Feature on Kerb Guided Buses (O-Bahn)}}

27 January - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; (born 1905)
February 6
Bernhard Eichhorn, German film composer (born 1904)
Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (born 1895)
February 21 — Alfred Andersch, German writer (born 1914)
March 5 — Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (born 1887)
April 22 — August von Finck Sr., German banker (born 1898)
May 26 — Franz Bachelin, German art director (born 1895)
June 8 — Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (born 1900)
June 27 — Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program (born 1895)
September 3 - Fabian von Schlabrendorff, German jurist, soldier, and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler (born 1907)
October 18 - Hans Ehard, German politician (born 1887)
December 11 — Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, German noblewoman (born 1892){{Cite web |title=Herzogin Viktoria Luise - Munzinger Biographie |url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000002477 |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=www.munzinger.de}}
December 24 — Karl Dönitz, German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II (born 1891)