Events in the year 1912 in Germany.
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- 16 January – Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986)
- 21 January – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000)
- 1 February – Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977)
- 5 February – Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
- 18 February – Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992)
- 24 February – Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006)
- 3 March – Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999)
- 4 March – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died 1996)
- 6 March – Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997)
- 13 March – Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004)
- 22 March – Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000)
- 23 March – Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
- 29 March – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)[2]
- 31 March – Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989)
- 29 April – Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
- 2 May:
- 9 May – Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010)
- 1 June – Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012)
- 5 June – Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
- 11 June - Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist (died 1996)
- 21 June – Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944)
- 28 June – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007)
- 30 June – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003)
- 9 July
- 28 July – Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988)
- 3 August:
- 14 August – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
- 31 August – Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941)
- 2 September – Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017)
- 19 September – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011)[3]
- 14 October – Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940)
- 1 November – Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer (died 2013)
- 28 November – Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992)
- 29 November – Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944)
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- 8 January – Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
- 5 February – Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831)
- 8 February – Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
- 5 March – Rochus von Liliencron, German germanist and historian (born 1820)
- 12 March – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Dönitz, German physician, anatomist, zoologist and entomologist (born 1838)
- 30 March – Karl May, German writer (born 1842)
- 30 July – Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843)
- 10 August – Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841)
- 24 September – Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842)
- 10 October – Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888)
- 27 October – Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)
- 22 November – Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846)
- 28 November – Otto Brahm, German drama and literary critic (born 1856)
- 23 December – Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
- 30 December – Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)
Piszkiewicz, Dennis (1997). From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch. Westport: Praeger. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-27595-456-7.