1987 in Germany

Events in the year 1987 in Germany.

Incumbents

25 January – West German federal election, 1987
20 February–3 March – 37th Berlin International Film Festival
12 March – The third cabinet Kohl led by Helmut Kohl was sworn in.
26 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987
17 May – Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1987
12 June–20 September – documenta 8
12 June – "Tear down this wall!" speech by Ronald Reagan in Berlin{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DC1F30F930A25755C0A961948260|title=Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet|author=Boyd, Gerald M.|date=June 13, 1987|access-date=February 9, 2008|work=The New York Times}}
September – Olof Palme Peace March
Date unknown: German company Mannesmann acquired German company ZF Sachs.

8 January – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
20 January – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
9 February – Magdalena Neuner, German professional biathlete. She is the most successful woman of all time at Biathlon World Championships
4 April – Sami Khedira, German footballer
19 April – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 6)
20 April
Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
Michael Klauß, German footballer
28 April
Hanka Mittelstädt, German politician
Robin Schulz, musician, DJ and record producer
29 April – Christian Reitz, German sport shooter
18 June – Vanessa Hegelmaier, German model
3 July
Maximilian Mauff, German actor
Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
22 August – Mischa Zverev, German tennis player
18 September – Johanna Uekermann, German politician
1 October – Daniel Adlung, German footballer
4 October – Marina Weisband, German politician
20 October – Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and false claimant to Holocaust descent (d. 2019)
25 October – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
11 December
Violetta Bock, politician{{cite web |title=Abgeordnete - Violetta Bock |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/B/1043738-1043738 |publisher=Bundestag |access-date=24 February 2025 |archive-url= |archive-date= |location=Berlin, Germany |language=de}}
Peter Scholze, German mathematician

15 January – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure; born 1926){{cite book|title=Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror|publisher=Locus Press|year=1987|page=413}}
29 January – Otto Klemperer, physicist (born 1899)
1 February – Gustav Knuth, German actor (born 1901)
8 February – Max Seydewitz, German politician (born 1892)
10 February – Hans Rosenthal, German television presenter (born 1925)
13 March – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany (born 1909)
26 March – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (born 1902)
8 May – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (born 1910)
7 July – Hannelore Schroth, German actress (born 1922)
10 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (born 1901)
26 August – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (born 1897)
5 September – Wolfgang Fortner, German composer (born 1907)
16 October – Joseph Höffner, German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (born 1906)
28 November – Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (born 1905)
9 December – Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (born 1914)
18 December – Conny Plank, German musician (born 1940)
22 December – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (born 1902)
31 December – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (born 1924)