title: 1957 in Germany
text: # 1957 in Germany
  
  Events in the year 1957 in Germany.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President – Theodor Heuss
  * Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer
  
  ## Events
  
  * 27 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
  * 12 April - Göttingen Manifesto
  * 21 June - 2 July - 7th Berlin International Film Festival
  * 1 August - The Deutsche Bundesbank was established.
  * 15 September - West German federal election, 1957
  * 29 October The Third Adenauer cabinet led by Konrad Adenauer was sworn in.
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  * The Balda Baldessa 35 mm film camera debuts.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 8 February - Imogen Kogge, German actor
  * 18 February - Marita Koch, German athlete
  * 8 March - Axel A. Weber, German economist, professor and banker
  * 10 March - Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician
  * 14 March - Kai Krause, German computer scientist
  * 18 May - Frank Plasberg, German journalist
  * 24 May - Walter Moers, German comic creator and author
  * 31 May - Ilse Junkermann, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany
  * 17 June - Joachim Król, German actor
  * 5 July - Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper
  * 12 July - Götz Alsmann, German television presenter and musician
  * 29 July - Ulrich Tukur, German actor
  * 4 August Olaf Beyer, German athlete
  * 18 August - Harald Schmidt, German actor, writer, columnist, comedian and television entertainer
  * 26 August - Christian Schmidt, German politician
  * 27 August - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
  * 8 September - Christoph Eichhorn, German actor
  * 10 September - Matthias Brenner, German actor
  * 26 November - Matthias Reim, German singer
  * 12 September - Hans Zimmer, German composer
  * 20 September - Sabine Christiansen, German journalist
  * 23 September - Suzanne von Borsody, German actress
  * 29 September - Harald Schmid, German track and field athlete
  * 21 October - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist
  * 10 November - Ingo Metzmacher, German conductor
  * 8 December - Hannelore Anke, German swimmer
  * 12 December - Tom Gerhardt, German actor and comedian
  * 29 December - Oliver Hirschbiegel, German film director
  * 30 December - Johann Riederer, German sport shooter
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  * Monika Maid, singer/songwriter
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 1 - Hans Wölpert, German weightlifter (born 1898)
  * January 22 - Claire Waldoff, German singer (born 1884)
  * January 31 - Christian Hülsmeyer, German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur (born 1881)
  * February 1 - Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (born 1890)
  * February 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist (born 1891)
  * February 13 - Gustav Mie, German physicist (born 1868)
  * February 14 - Erich Ponto, German actor (born 1884)
  * March 26 - Max Ophüls, German film director (born 1902)
  * May 7 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (born 1877)
  * May 10 - Kurt von Tippelskirch, German general (born 1891)
  * May 15 - Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, chemist (born 1899)
  * June 4 – Louise Schroeder, German politician (born 1887)
  * June 21 - Johannes Stark, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
  * June 26 - Alfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and writer (born 1878)
  * August 5 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1877)
  * August 30 - Otto Suhr, German politician (born 1894)
  * October 28 - Ernst Gräfenberg, physician (medical doctor) and scientist (born 1881)
  * October 29 - Rosemarie Nitribitt. German luxury call girl (born 1933)
  * December 9 - Otto Landsberg, German politician (born 1869)
  * December 27 - Otto Nuschke, German politician (born 1883)
  