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Events in the year 1928 in Germany.

• President - Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

• Chancellor - Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (to 28 June), Hermann Müller (Social Democrats) (from 28 June)

• May - October – Pressa held in Cologne

• 20 May – 1928 German federal election

• 28 June – Socialist Hermann Müller succeeds Wilhelm Marx as chancellor

• 1 January – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic and military historian

• 2 January – Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)

• 3 January – Klaus Schulze, Olympic rower (d. 2013)

• 14 January – Hans Kornberg, biochemist (d. 2019)

• 16 January – Manfred Schukowski, astronomer (d. 2025)

• 27 January – Hans Modrow, politician (d. 2023)

• 31 January - Michael Degen, actor (d. 2022)

• 16 February – Edzard Reuter, businessman (d. 2024)

• 20 February – Friedrich Wetter, Cardinal Archbishop of Munich

• 23 February – Hans Herrmann, German racing driver

• 3 March – Gudrun Pausewang, author (d. 2020)

• 12 March – Werner Krolikowski, East German politician

• 16 March – Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano (d. 2021)

• 8 April

  • Willi Brokmeier, German operatic tenor (d. 2024)
  • Leah Rabin, German-born wife of former Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)

• 12 April – Hardy Krüger, German actor (d. 2022)

• 18 April – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)

• 29 April – Heinz Wolff, German-born British scientist and broadcaster (d. 2017)

• 9 May – Peter Merseburger, German journalist and author (d. 2022)

• 4 June – Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (d. 2024)

• 21 June – Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician (d. 2022)

• 23 June – Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician

• 24 June – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general

• 1 July – Gunnar Möller, German TV and film actor (d. 2017)

• 9 July – Edmund Kalau, German aviator and missionary (d. 2014)

• 15 July – Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher (d. 2024)

• 28 July – Norbert Lohfink, German priest and theologian (d. 2024)

• 5 August – Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)

• 9 August – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (d. 2021)

• 15 August – Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)

• 25 August – Herbert Kroemer, German physicist

• 8 November – Ursula Haverbeck, neo-Nazi activist

• 9 November – Werner Veigel, German journalist and television presenter (d. 1995)

• 12 November

  • Hanna Elisabeth "Hanneli" Goslar, German-born Israeli nurse and friend of diarist Anne Frank (d. 2022)
  • Werner Klumpp, politician (died 2021)

• 16 January – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (born 1851)

• 8 February – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (born 1857)

• 27 February

  • Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (born 1860)
  • Jürgen Kröger, German architect (born 1856)

• 19 May – Max Scheler, German philosopher (born 1874)

• 30 August - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

• 21 November – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (born 1858)

• 26 November – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)