City Federal state Population 1 Berlin Berlin 3,562,166 2 Hamburg Hamburg 1,751,775 3 Munich (München) Bavaria 1,407,836 4 Cologne (Köln) North Rhine-Westphalia 1,034,175 5 Frankfurt Hesse 701,350 6 Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia 598,686 7 Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg 597,939 8 Dortmund North Rhine-Westphalia 575,944 9 Essen North Rhine-Westphalia 569,884 10 Bremen Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 547,976 11 Leipzig Saxony 531,809 12 Dresden Saxony 531,806 13 Hanover (Hannover) Lower Saxony 518,386 14 Nuremberg (Nürnberg) Bavaria 495,121 15 Duisburg North Rhine-Westphalia 488,005 16 Bochum North Rhine-Westphalia 390,087 17 Wuppertal North Rhine-Westphalia 364,784 18 Bielefeld North Rhine-Westphalia 323,373 19 Mannheim Baden-Württemberg 308,385 20 Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia 306,016 21 Karlsruhe Baden-Württemberg 279,578 22 Gelsenkirchen North Rhine-Westphalia 276,740 23 Wiesbaden Hesse 271,076 24 Münster North Rhine-Westphalia 267,197 25 Mönchengladbach North Rhine-Westphalia 262,963 26 Augsburg Bavaria 257,836 27 Chemnitz Saxony 255,798 28 Aachen North Rhine-Westphalia 245,778 29 Braunschweig Lower Saxony 245,516 30 Halle Saxony-Anhalt 243,045 31 Krefeld North Rhine-Westphalia 239,559 32 Kiel Schleswig-Holstein 232,242 33 Magdeburg Saxony-Anhalt 229,755 34 Oberhausen North Rhine-Westphalia 221,619 35 Lübeck Schleswig-Holstein 213,496 36 Freiburg Baden-Württemberg 208,294 37 Hagen North Rhine-Westphalia 202,060 38 Erfurt Thuringia 200,126 39 Rostock Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 198,964 40 Kassel Hesse 194,748 41 Mainz Rhineland-Palatinate 185,293 42 Hamm North Rhine-Westphalia 183,805 43 Saarbrücken Saarland 182,858 44 Herne North Rhine-Westphalia 174,018 45 Mülheim North Rhine-Westphalia 172,332 46 Solingen North Rhine-Westphalia 165,032 47 Osnabrück Lower Saxony 164,195 48 Ludwigshafen Rhineland-Palatinate 162,458 49 Leverkusen North Rhine-Westphalia 160,829 50 Oldenburg Lower Saxony 155,908 51 Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia 150,957 52 Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg 141,509 53 Paderborn North Rhine-Westphalia 140,869 54 Darmstadt Hesse 138,457 55 Potsdam Brandenburg 130,435 56 Würzburg Bavaria 129,915 57 Regensburg Bavaria 127,198 58 Recklinghausen North Rhine-Westphalia 124,587 59 Göttingen Lower Saxony 123,822 60 Wolfsburg Lower Saxony 121,887 61 Bottrop North Rhine-Westphalia 120,780 62 Heilbronn Baden-Württemberg 120,163 63 Remscheid North Rhine-Westphalia 118,753 64 Bremerhaven Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 118,701 65 Offenbach Hesse 118,429 66 Ulm Baden-Württemberg 118,347 67 Pforzheim Baden-Württemberg 118,002 68 Ingolstadt Bavaria 117,311 69 Salzgitter Lower Saxony 111,696 70 Reutlingen Baden-Württemberg 111,338 71 Fürth Bavaria 111,257 72 Gera Thuringia 109,926 73 Siegen North Rhine-Westphalia 108,397 74 Koblenz Rhineland-Palatinate 107,730 75 Moers North Rhine-Westphalia 107,421 76 Cottbus Brandenburg 105,954 77 Bergisch Gladbach North Rhine-Westphalia 105,569 78 Hildesheim Lower Saxony 103,717 79 Witten North Rhine-Westphalia 103,158 80 Erlangen Bavaria 101,912 81 Zwickau Saxony 101,726 82 Jena Thuringia 107,679 83 Trier Rhineland-Palatinate 106,544