1951 in Germany

Incumbents

West Germany

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

  East Germany

• Head of State – Wilhelm Pieck
• Head of Government – Otto Grotewohl

  Events

• April 29 - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1951
• June 5 - East German referendum, 1951
• June 6 to 17 - 1st Berlin International Film Festival

  Births

• 1 January - Hans-Joachim Stuck, racing driver
• 4 January - Richard Oetker, German businessman
• 8 January - Franz Pachl, German chess player and composer
• 28 January - Karl Honz, German athlete
• 16 February - Franz-Josef Bode, German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück
• 4 March - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
• 24 March - Monika Stolz, German politician
• 30 March - Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer
• 1 April - Johanna Wanka, German politician
• 9 April - Monika Piel, German journalist
• 17 April - Horst Hrubesch, German football player
• 18 May - Angela Voigt, German long jumper
• 26 June - Jürgen Rüttgers, German politician
• 28 June - Rolf Milser, German weightlifter
• 13 July - Sonia Seymour Mikich, German journalist
• 21 July - Eberhard Gienger, German politician and gymnast
• 26 July - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
• 31 July - Martin Mosebach, German writer
• 3 August - Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
• 5 August - Franz-Peter Hofmeister, German athlete
• 15 August - Herfried Münkler, German political scientist
• 5 September - Paul Breitner, German football player
• 22 September - Wolfgang Petry, German singer
• 24 September - Heinz Hoenig, German actor
• 29 September - Jörg Diesch, German sailor
• 29 September- Jutta Ditfurth, German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician
• 5 October - Beate Heister, German businesswoman
• 20 October - Hans-Georg Aschenbach, German ski jumper
• 21 November - Thomas Roth, German journalist
• 4 December - Reinhard Eiben, German canoeist
• 14 December -Mike Krüger, German comedian
• 18 December - Volker Bouffier, German politician

  Deaths

• January 22 - Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave
• January 30 - Ferdinand Porsche, German automobile pioneer
• February 3 - August Horch German engineer and automobile pioneer,
• February 8 - Fritz Thyssen, German entrepreneur
• March 12 - Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman, politician and publisher
• April 26 - Gerda Müller, German actress
• April 26 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
• July 1 — Gustav Höhne, Wehrmacht general and Knight's Cross recipient
• July 2 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon
• July 20 - Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince
• August 4 - Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician
• August 30 - Erich Emminger, German politician
• October 6 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist
• October 17 - Johann Becker, German politician
• October 20 - Karl Jarres, German politician
• December 4 - Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician and glaciologist