Events in the year 1958 in Germany.

Incumbents

• President – Theodor Heuss
• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

Events

• January 20 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958
• June 27 - July 8 - 8th Berlin International Film Festival
• November 16 - East German general election, 1958

Science

• Date unknown - The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958.

Births

• January 24 - Frank Ullrich, biathlete
• January 25 - Jürgen Hingsen, decathlete
• February 12 - Gero Storjohann, politician (died 2023)
• February 17 - Claudia Schoppmann, historian and writer
• March 20 - Stefan Keil, diplomat (died 2021)
• March 21 - Marlies Göhr, athlete
• March 24
  • Roland Koch, politician
  • Mathias Richling, German actor, author, comedian and cabaret artist
• March 31 - Dietmar Bartsch, politician
• March 31 - Sylvester Groth, actor
• April 2 - Olaf Prenzler, sprinter
• April 26 - Ingolf Lück, actor
• May 7 - Christine Lieberknecht, politician
• May 19 - Dieter Reiter, politician
• May 21 - Sabine Bischoff, fencer
• May 23 - Thomas Reiter, astronaut
• June 2 - Andreas K. W. Meyer, dramaturge and opera manager (died 2023)
• June 3 - Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, Landesbischöfin (bishop) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover
• June 6 - Rudi Fink, boxer
• June 14 - Olaf Scholz, politician
• June 16 - Ulrike Tauber, swimmer
• June 18 - Peter Altmaier, politician
• June 29 - Dieter Althaus, politician
• July 25 - Karlheinz Förster, footballer
• July 27 - Barbara Rudnik, actress (died 2009)
• July 15 - Jörg Kachelmann Swiss presenter in the meteorological field and victim of false rape accusations^[1]
• July 27 - Margarethe Schreinemakers, television presenter and talk show host
• August 5 - Ulla Salzgeber, equestrian
• September 1 - Dagmar Manzel, actress
• September 6 - Amelie Fried, writer
• September 26 - Rudi Cerne, figure skater
• September 29 - Tom Buhrow, journalist
• October 8 - Ursula von der Leyen, politician
• October 14 - Peter Kloeppel, journalist
• October 23 - Axel Krause, painter and graphic artist
• October 25 - Kornelia Ender, swimmer
• November 9 - Eva Herman, author and television presenter
• December 5 - Annette Harnack, high jumper
• December 5 - Martin Schaudt, equestrian
• December 10 - Annelore Zinke, gymnast
• December 11 - Dominic Raacke, actor
• December 15 - Stephan Weil, politician
• December 21 - Tom Enders, businessman
• December 25 - Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, nobleman
• Unknown - OUBEY, visual artist (died 2004)

Deaths

• January 9 - Karl Reinhardt, German philologist (born 1886)
• January 27 - Prince Oskar of Prussia, German nobleman (born 1888)
• January 30 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (born 1888)
• February 22 - Theo Harych, German writer (born 1903)
• March 3 - Wilhelm Zaisser, German politician (born 1893)
• March 21 - Hans Ehrenberg, German theologian (born 1883)
• April 6 - Reinhold Schneider, German poet (born 1903)
• June 20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (born 1902)
• June 29 - Karl Arnold, German politician (born 1901)
• June 30 - Walther Schreiber, German politician (born 1884)
• July 26 - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (born 1866)
• August 25 - Leo Blech, German composer and conductor (born 1871)
• September 10 - Franz Wessel, German judge (born 1903)
• September 15 — Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, German actor (born 1893)
• October 11 - Johannes R. Becher, German politician, poet and novelist (born 1891)
• October 19 - Josef Wintrich, German judge (born 1891)
• October 23 - Erich Köhler, German politician (born 1892)
• October 24 - Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg, German politician and landowner (born 1891)
• October 27 - Barbara Schack, Sudeten German politician (born 1873 or 1874)^[2]
• November 19 - Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (born 1898)
• December 21 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (born 1884)

See also

• 1958 in German television

References