Events in the year 1947 in Germany.

• The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947.

• January 4 - German magazine Der Spiegel was founded.
• IG Farben Trial
• Flick Trial
• Krupp Trial
• Pohl trial
• Doctors' trial
• Judges' Trial
• Milch Trial
• Hostages Trial

• January 5 - Rita Kühne, German athlete
• January 10 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
• January 15 - Michael Schanze, German television presenter
• January 20 - Chris Karrer, German musician (died 2024)
• February 14 - Heide Rosendahl, German athlete
• February 20 - Henry Hübchen, German actor
• April 1 - Ingrid Steeger, German comedian
• April 7 - Florian Schneider, German musician (died 2020)
• April 11 - Uli Edel, German film director
• May 3 - Götz Aly, German journalist, historian and political scientist
• May 20 - Sky du Mont, German actor
• May 24 - Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
• June 1 - Konstantin Wecker, German singer-songwriter
• June 6 - Peter Lenk, German sculptor
• June 16 - Gunther Kaufmann, actor (died 2012)
• June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk, German philosoph
• July 20 - Gerd Binnig, German physicist
• July 25 - Mickey Scott, German-born American baseball player (died 2011)
• August 4 - Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer (died 2022)
• August 11 - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (died 2000)
• August 27 - Fritz Schramma, German politician
• September 3 - Nikolaus Schneider, German theologian and Protestant bishop
• September 4 - Peter Behrens, German musician (died 2016)
• September 29 - Jörg van Essen, German politician and lawyer
• October 2 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (died 2013)
• October 26 - Christian Ude, German politician
• October 27 - Gunter Demnig, German artist
• November 29 - Petra Kelly, German politician (died 1992)
• December 2 - Rudolf Scharping, German politician
• December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German hockey player
• December 21 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German political militant (died 2022)

• January 3 - Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet (born 1876)
• January 31 - Franz Ritter von Epp, German general (born 1868)
• February 1 - Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician (born 1876)
• February 5 - Hans Fallada, German writer (born 1893)
• February 6 - Max Gülstorff, German actor (born 1882)
• April 1 - Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882)
• May 20 - Philipp Lenard, German physicist (born 1862)
• June 22 — Gotthard Fliegel, German geographer (born 1873)
• July 13 - Carl Hoffmann, German film director (born 1885)
• October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858)
• November 5 - Fritz Schumacher, German architect (born 1869)
• November 11 - Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (born 1883)
• November 20 - Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921)
• November 30 - Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (born 1892)
• December 1 - Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (born 1877)
• December 3 - Heinrich Hetsch, German physician (born 1873)
• December 25 - Otto Falckenberg, German theatre director and writer (born 1873)