Events in the year 1996 in Germany.
Incumbents
President – Roman Herzog
Chancellor – Helmut Kohl
Events
Deutsche Telekom is privatized. 15–26 February – 46th Berlin International Film Festival 1 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 11 April – Düsseldorf Airport fire 28 June – Osnabrück mortar attack 1 October – Jakub Fiszman is abducted.
Elections
Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1996
Births
6 March – Timo Werner, footballer
2 May – Lisa Mayer, athlete
13 August – Antonia Lottner, tennis player
11 November – Gianluca Gaudino, footballer
21 November – Gina Lückenkemper, athlete
Deaths
1 January – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (born 1906) 6 January – Kurt Schmücker, German politician (born 1919) 9 February – Adolf Galland, German general (born 1912) 23 February – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (born 1915) 26 February – Georg Henneberg, German physician (born 1908) 4 March – Gerhard Schaffran, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1912) 15 March – Wolfgang Koeppen, German writer (born 1906) 28 March – Hans Blumenberg, philosopher and intellectual historian (born 1920) 3 May – Hermann Kesten, German author (born 1900) 11 June – Brigitte Helm, German actress (born 1906) 8 July – Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, German nobleman (born 1905) 14 August – Camilla Horn, German actress (born 1903) 15 August – Albert Osswald, German politician (born 1919) 20 August – Rio Reiser, singer (born 1950) 19 September – Helmut Heißenbüttel, German writer (born 1921) 21 September Franz Pfnür, German alpine skier (born 1908) Claus Holm, German actor (born 1918) 13 October – Henri Nannen, German journalist (born 1913) 8 November – Johannes Frömming, German harness racing driver (born 1910) 29 December – Wolfgang Pietzsch, German chess grand master (born 1930)