1969 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Heinrich Lübke, Gustav Heinemann
• Chancellor – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Willy Brandt

  Events

• 22 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969
• 5 March - 1969 West German presidential election
• 23 June - Bonn Agreement
• 25 June - 26 July - 19th Berlin International Film Festival
• 5 September - Bielefeld University was established.
• 28 September - 1969 West German federal election
• 22 October - The First Brandt cabinet led by Willy Brandt was sworn in.

  Births

• January 3 - Michael Schumacher, racing driver
• January 15 - Meret Becker, actress
• January 24 - Annette Klug, fencer
• March 28 - Ilke Wyludda, discus thrower
• April 11 - Caren Miosga, journalist
• April 20 - Marietta Slomka, journalist
• May 25 - Jörg Roßkopf, table tennis player
• June 14 - Steffi Graf, tennis player
• June 15 - Oliver Kahn, football player
• July 5 - Ansgar Brinkmann, politician
• July 16 - Sahra Wagenknecht, politician
• July 19 - Sabine Bau, fencer
• July 21 - Isabell Werth, equestrian
• July 22 - Ronny Weller, weightlifter
• August 3 - Ingo Oschmann, comedian
• August 21 - Oliver Geissen, television presenter
• August 28 - Christoph Ahlhaus, politician
• September 9 - Sandra Wagner-Sachse, archer
• October 1 - Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, politician
• October 9 - Torsten May, boxer
• October 19 - Dieter Thoma, ski jumper
• November 22 - Katrin Krabbe, athlete
• December 22 - Eyck Zimmer, chef
• December 25 - AnNa R., singer

  Deaths

• January 13 - Helmut Weiss, German film director
• February 18 - Gisela Arendt, German swimmer
• February 22 - Johannes Dieckmann, German politician
• February 26 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher
• March 7 - Wilhelm von Apell, German general
• April 21 - Rudolf Amelunxen, German politician
• May 2 - Franz von Papen, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
• July 5 - Walter Gropius, German architect
• July 25 - Otto Dix, German painter
• 5 August — Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, German nobleman, explorer and politician
• August 6 - Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher
• August 8 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German physician
• August 17
• * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect
• * Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics
• October 22 - Fritz Steinhoff, German politician
• November 6 - Max Knoll, German electrical engineer
• November 25 - Hans Reiter, German physician
• December 2 - Otto Dix, German painter
• December 5 - Claude Dornier, German airplane builder
• December 8 - Karl Fiehler, German politician
• December 19 - Rolf Dahlgrün, German politician
• December 22 - Armin von Gerkan, German archaeologist