1975 in Germany

Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s;
See also:	Other events of 1975; List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1975 in Germany.

Incumbents

Unknown date; Launch of the Volkswagen Polo, a three-door hatchback which fits into the Volkswagen range below the Golf and is similar in size and concept to the Renault 5 from France.
February 25 – German Constitutional Court abortion decision
February 27 – The 2 June Movement kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
June 27 - July 8 - 25th Berlin International Film Festival
August: Fire on the Lüneburg Heath
The Flick affair began in 1975 with a share trade where the Flick company sold shares worth 1.9 Billion Deutsche Mark from Daimler AG to the Deutsche Bank.
Date unknown: German company Coppenrath & Wiese was founded.

January 11 – Roma Bahn, German actress (born 1896)
January 24 – Erich Kempka, chauffeur of Adolf Hitler (born 1910)
February 2 – Karl Maron, German politician (born 1903)
March 3 – Therese Giehse, actress (born 1898)
March 22 – : Paul Verhoeven, actor, theatre and film director (born 1901)
April 1 – Lorenz Jaeger, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1892)
April 17 – Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, nobleman (born 1893)
June 17 – Max Barthel, writer (born 1893)
July 6 – Margret Boveri, journalist and writer (born 1900)
August 12 – Werner Rittberger, figure skater (born 1891)
October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
November 26 – Anton Storch, politician (born 1892)
December 16 – Wilhelm Stählin, German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher (born 1883)

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