1972 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Gustav Heinemann
• Chancellor – Willy Brandt

  Events

• 19 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972
• 1 April - German company SAP SE was founded.
• 23 June - 4 July - 22nd Berlin International Film Festival
• 30 June - 8 October: documenta 5
• 14 August: 1972 Königs Wusterhausen air disaster
• 26 August-10 September - 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
• 5 September - Munich massacre
• 19 November - West German federal election, 1972
• 15 December - The Second Brandt cabinet led by Willy Brandt was sworn in.
• 21 December- The Basic Treaty is signed by Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic.
• Transit Agreement
• Date unknown: German company Fielmann was founded.

  Births

• January 2 - Britt Hagedorn, German television presenter
• February 15 - Michelle, German singer
• February 22 - Claudia Pechstein, German speedskater
• March 10 - Mark Waschke, German actor
• April 4 - Bastian Pastewka, German actor and comedian
• April 16 - Andreas Dittmer, German canoeist
• May 10 - Katja Seizinger, German alpine ski racer
• May 23 - Nadja Uhl, German actress
• June 20 - Simon Verhoeven, German actor and film director
• June 22 - Michael Wendler, German singer
• July 1 - Steffi Nerius, German athlete
• July 10 - Christoph Hochhäusler, German film director
• September 3 - Tim Lobinger, German pole vaulter
• October 18 - Helge Braun, German politician
• November 1 - Mario Barth, German comedian
• November 3 - Hubertus Heil, German politician
• December 4 - Marc Bator, German journalist
• December 16 - Julia Klöckner, German politician
• December 28 - Florian Pronold, German politician

  Deaths

• 6 January - Walther von Axthelm, German general
• 25 January - Erhard Milch, German field marshal of Luftwaffe
• 20 February — Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Germann theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics
• 27 March - Raimund Schelcher, German actor
• 6 April — Heinrich Lübke, German politician, former President of Germany
• 26 April — Johann Reichhart, German executioner
• 14 May - Theodor Blank, German politician
• 23 June — Werner Klingler, German film director and actor
• 25 June - Günther Simon, German actor
• 2 July — Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright
• 20 July — Friedrich Flick, German entrepreneur and industrialist
• 1 August - Erwin Madelung, German physicist
• 29 August — Lale Andersen, German singer
• 29 September - Max Nosseck, German film director
• 4 October — Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, German politician
• 25 November - Hans Scharoun, German architect
• 9 December - William Dieterle, German actor and film director
• 20 December - Günter Eich, German author
• 24 December - Ernst Kreuder, German writer