1996 Panasonic German Open – Doubles
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Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov were the defending champions but lost in the first round to David Rikl and Daniel Vacek.
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won in the final 6–2, 6–4 against Guy Forget and Jakob Hlasek.
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
- The Bahamas Mark Knowles / Canada Daniel Nestor (champions)
- United States Patrick Galbraith / Russia Andrei Olhovskiy (semifinals)
- South Africa Ellis Ferreira / Netherlands Jan Siemerink (second round)
- France Guy Forget / Switzerland Jakob Hlasek (final)
- Argentina Luis Lobo / Spain Javier Sánchez (quarterfinals)
- Spain Tomás Carbonell / Spain Francisco Roig (semifinals)
- Canada Grant Connell / South Africa John-Laffnie de Jager (quarterfinals)
- South Africa Wayne Ferreira / Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov (first round)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
Final
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
- Spain Javier Conde / Spain Àlex Corretja (first round)
- Germany Alex Rădulescu / Germany Jörn Renzenbrink (qualified)
- Spain Emilio Benfele Álvarez / Spain David Salvador-Estepa (qualified)
- Costa Rica Juan Antonio Marín / Spain Óscar Martínez (qualifying competition)
Qualifiers
- Spain Emilio Benfele Álvarez / Spain David Salvador-Estepa
- Germany Alex Rădulescu / Germany Jörn Renzenbrink
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
| First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Spain Javier Conde Spain Àlex Corretja | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||
| WC | Germany Tommy HaasItaly Davide Sanguinetti | 7 | 6 | WC | Germany Tommy HaasItaly Davide Sanguinetti | 7 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| Germany Lars Kirschner Germany Alexander von Hugo | 3 | 4 | 3 | Spain Emilio Benfele ÁlvarezSpain David Salvador-Estepa | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| 3 | Spain Emilio Benfele ÁlvarezSpain David Salvador-Estepa | 6 | 6 |