1927 in Germany

Events in the year 1927 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

President

• Paul von Hindenburg (Non-partisan)

Chancellor

• Wilhelm Marx (Centre) (2nd term)

Events

• 10 January - The film Metropolis is released
• 16 September - President Paul von Hindenburg repudiates German responsibility for the Great War
• 23 November - Germany and Poland sign a trade pact

Births

• 21 February - Reinhard Appel, German journalist (died 2011)
• 11 March - Joachim Fuchsberger, German television presenter and actor (died 2014)
• 15 March - Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (died 1995)
• 21 March - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (died 2016)
• 24 March - Martin Walser, German writer
• 16 April - Pope Benedict XVI
• 4 May - Peter Boenisch, German journalist (died 2005)
• 9 May
  • Manfred Eigen, German biophysical chemist
  • Wim Thoelke, German television presenter (died 1995)
• 23 May - Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian and cabarett artist (died 2013)
• 27 May - Peter Malkin, German-born Israeli Mossad agent who captured Adolf Eichmann (died 2005 in Israel)
• 2 September - Tzvi Avni, German-born Israeli composer
• 9 November - Shlomo "Chich" Lahat, German-born Israeli general and politician serving as the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv
• 16 October - Günter Grass, Danzig-born writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2015)

Deaths

• July 5 - Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. (born 1853)
• October 30 - Maximilian Harden, German journalist (born 1861)