Events in the year1986 inGermany.

• President -Richard von Weizsäcker
• Chancellor –Helmut Kohl

• 14–25 February -36th Berlin International Film Festival
• 27 March -Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986^[1]
• 8 June -East German general election, 1986^[2]
• 15 June -1986 Lower Saxony state election
• July - Launch of the second generationBMW 7 Series.
• September - Launch of the third generationAudi 80.
• 17 October - Launch of the all-newOpel Omega, which succeeds theOpel Rekord.
• December - The Opel Omega is votedEuropean Car of the Year, with the Audi 80 coming second in the contest and the BMW 7 Series coming third.^[3]
• German companyVolkswagen Group acquired a controlling stake in Spanish companySEAT.

• 2 January –Nicole Reinhardt, Olympic canoeist
• 6 January –Benjamin Simm, rugby player
• 13 January –Laura Ludwig, Olympic beach volleyball player

• 16 February –Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, Olympic dressage rider

• 5 March –Constantin von Jascheroff, actor
• 27 March –Manuel Neuer, footballer

• 11 April –Lena Schöneborn, Olympic pentathlete

• 4 June –Fahriye Evcen, German-born Turkish actress
• 5 June –Christian Baracat, rugby player
• 11 June –Sebastian Bayer, Olympic long jumper

• 20 July –Andreas Kümmert, singer
• 25 July –Robert Dietrich, ice hockey player (d.2011)
• 30 July –Arthur Abele, Olympic decathlete

• 7 August –Paul Biedermann, Olympic swimmer
• 17 August –Tobias Schönenberg, actor and model
• 26 August –Kerstin Thiele, Olympic judoka

• 23 September –Gina-Lisa Lohfink, actress and model

• 9 October –Dave Grunewald, singer, podcaster, fitness expert, and co-frontman forAnnisokay (2011–2019)
• 26 October –René Rast, racing driver
• 28 October –Kristina Bröring-Sprehe, Olympic equestrian

• 5 November –Axel Tischer, wrestler
• 12 November –Robert Müller, footballer

• 9 December –Miriam Welte, Olympic cyclist
• 13 December –Christian Engelhart, racing driver

• January 23 -Joseph Beuys, artist (born1921)
• January 25 -Josef Kammhuber, general (born1896)
• January 25 -Ernst Schnabel, German writer (born1913)
• January 27 –Lilli Palmer, actress (born1914)
• February 3 —Alfred Vohrer, German film director and actor (born1914)
• March 11 -Herbert Runge, German boxer (born1913)
• March 13 -Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (born1906)
• March 17 -Heinz Nixdorf, German computing pioneer, businessman and founder of Nixdorf Computer AG (born1925)
• June 9 -Elisabeth Selbert, politician and lawyer (born1896)
• July 14 -Joseph Vogt, classical historian (born1895)
• July 24 -Willy Kaiser, German boxer (born1912)
• August 3 -Otmar Emminger, German economist (born1911)
• September 30 -Franz Burda I, German publisher (born1903)
• October 4 —Arno von Lenski, German officer (born1893)
• October 30 -Fritz Tillmann, German actor (born1910)
• October 30 -Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, German politician (born1901)
• November 12 -Ria Baran, German pair skater (born1922)
• December 2 -Heinrich Amersdorffer, German painter and printmaker (born1905)
• December 12 -Paul Verner, politician (born1911)
• December 19 -Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (born1895)

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