Events in the year 1917 in Germany.
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- 5 January – Wieland Wagner, German opera director (died 1966)
- 22 January – Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German politician.[3] (died 2010)
- 18 February – Gertraud Winkelvoss, German neo-Nazi politician (died 1981)[4]
- 24 March – Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization (died 1984)
- 9 April – Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer (died 1965)
- 16 May – Ulrich Matschoss, German actor (died 2013)
- 2 June – Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker (died 2006)
- 29 July – Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (died 2013)
- 6 September – Philipp von Boeselager, German resistance fighter (died 2008)[5]
- 12 September – Jürgen Seydel, German karateka (died 2008)
- 15 December
- 21 December – Heinrich Böll, German writer (died 1985)[7]
- 23 December – Armin Zimmermann, German admiral (died 1976)
- 23 January – Jesko von Puttkamer, German nobleman and colonial military chief (born 1855)
- 16 February – August Rauber, German anatomist (born 1841)
- 8 March – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer (born 1838)[8]
- 14 March – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
- 17 March – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist, and priest (born 1838)
- 21 March – Alfred Einhorn, German chemist (born 1856)
- 31 March – Emil von Behring, German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1854)
- 6 April:
- 14 April – Hartmuth Baldamus, German World War I flying ace (born 1891)
- 21 April – Bernd von Arnim, German naval officer (born 1885)
- 24 April – Oscar Blumenthal, German playwright (born 1852)
- 17 June – Karl Zilgas, German football player (born 1882)
- 27 June – Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying ace (born 1896)
- 27 June - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (born 1838)
- 3 August - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (born 1849)[9]
- 13 August – Eduard Buchner, German chemist and zymologist (born 1860)
- 15 August – Gustav Körte, German archaeologist (born 1852)
- 16 August – Wilhelm Morgner, German painter (born 1891)
- 20 August – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist (born 1835)
- 5 September – Walther Schwieger, German U-boat commander of U-20, which sank the Lusitania (born 1885)
- 15 September – Kurt Wolff, German aviator (born 1895)
- 28 September – Kurt Wissemann, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- 25 October:
- 15 November – Hans Ritter von Adam, German flying ace in World War I (born 1886)
- 20 November – Ludwig Sütterlin, German graphic artist (born 1865)
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Daniel Larsen (2021). Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914-1917. Cambridge University Press. p. 385. ISBN 9781108486682.
Schumacher, Martin (2006). Die Volksvertretung 1946–1972 [The People's Representation 1946-1972] (PDF) (in German). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties. p. 1376.
Helmut Rechenberg; Jagdish Mehra (2000). The Formulation of Matrix Mechanics and Its Modifications 1925–1926. Springer New York. p. 21.