1977 in Germany

Incumbents

• President – Walter Scheel
• Chancellor – Helmut Schmidt

  Events

• Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977
• 24 June-2 October: documenta 6
• 24 June - 5 July - 27th Berlin International Film Festival
• 5 September-18 October: Kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer
• 13 October - Lufthansa Flight 181 was hijacked by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
• German Autumn
• East German coffee crisis

  Births

• January 15 - Ronald Zehrfeld, German actor
• February 22 - Claudia Hiersche, German actress
• February 16 - Thomas Rupprath, German swimmer
• May 2 - Jan Fitschen, German athlete
• May 3 - Nicola Thost, German snowboarder
• May 5 Jessica Schwarz, German actress
• July 21 - Danny Ecker, German pole vaulter
• August 2 - Florian Stetter, German actor
• August 3 - Kristina Schröder, German politician
• August 29 - Jo Weil, German actor
• October 16 - Björn Otto, German pole vaulter
• November 28 - Claus von Wagner, German comedian and cabaret performer
• December 19 - Samy Deluxe, German singer

  Deaths

• January 6 - Hanns Lilje, Lutheran bishop
• January 18 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright
• February 22 - Otto Graf, German actor
• March 4 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician
• April 7 Karl Ritter, German film producer
• April 7 - Siegfried Buback, Attorney General of Germany
• May 5 - Ludwig Erhard, politician
• May 5 - Erich Campe, German boxer
• May 13 — Otto Deßloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient
• June 16 - Wernher von Braun, German, later American, aerospace engineer, and space architect
• June 16 - Werner Eggerath, German politician and writer
• June 30 - Paul Hartmann, German actor
• July 11 - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
• July 30 - Jürgen Ponto, German bankier
• August 4 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher
• August 28 - Peter Altmeier, politician
• August 29 - Annemarie Steinsieck, actress
• September 7 - Edgar Basel, German boxer
• October 10 - Lea Grundig, German painter
• October 18 - Hanns Martin Schleyer, business executive and employer and industry representative
• October 26 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress
• November 2 - Hans Erich Nossack, German writer
• December 22 - Karl John, German actor