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Events in the year 1958 in Germany.

• President – Theodor Heuss

• Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer

• 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

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

• 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 17 - Ulrike Hoffmann-Richter, psychiatrist (died 2024)

• 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
  • 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

• 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

  • Michael Boder, conductor (died 2024)
  • Eva Herman, author and television presenter

• December 5

  • Annette Harnack, high jumper
  • 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)

• 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)

• November 19 - Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (born 1898)

• December 21 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (born 1884)

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