2014 in Germany

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Events in the year 2014 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

Angela Merkel

Joachim Gauck

• President: Joachim Gauck
• Chancellor: Angela Merkel

State level

• Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann
• Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer
• Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit
• Minister-President of Brandenburg – Dietmar Woidke
• Mayor of Bremen – Jens Boehrnsen
• Mayor of Hamburg – Olaf Scholz
• Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering
• Minister-President of Niedersachsen – Stephan Weil
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Malu Dreyer
• Minister-President of Saarland – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
• Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich
• Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Reiner Haseloff
• Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Torsten Albig
• Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht

Events

January

• January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich
• January - German Snooker Masters in Berlin^[1]
• 6 January - 100th birthday of German art dealer Heinz Berggruen
• 28–1 January, 200th deathday of German king Karl der Große
• 29 January - 200th deathday of German philosoph Johann Gottlieb Fichte

February

• 6 to 16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
• February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014^[2]

March

• March – CeBIT in Hanover
• March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
• March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
• 7 March - 300th year of Treaty of Rastatt

April

• April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
• April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin

May

• 24 May - 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer

June

• June – Kiel Week in Kiel

July

Germany national football team wins in Brazil

• 13 July - The Germany national team becomes world champion in Brazil.
• 18 July -
  • 4 Germans are confirmed as among the 300 people on board killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 with 193 Dutch nationals in Eastern Ukraine near Russian border.
  • 26 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships
• 28 July - 100th year of start World War I

August

• August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
• 13 to 24 August - 2014 European Aquatics Championships
• 15 August - Reopening of Hildesheim Cathedral after four and a half years of renovation.
• 27 August - 100th birthday of German actress Heidi Kabel
• August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

September

• September – "Shariah Police" incident in Wuppertal, Germany (2014), Hardline Salafist Muslims patrolled the streets of Wuppertal, a city in the west of Germany, to "influence and recruit young people", according to local police.^[3] Dressed in bright orange reflective vests with "Shariah Police" printed on the back, the male patrollers loitered around discotheques and gambling houses, telling passers-by to refrain from gambling and alcohol. Wuppertal's police have pressed charges.^[4]
• September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
• September – Gamescom in Cologne
• September – photokina 2014 in Cologne
• September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
• 26 September - 100th deathday of German painter August Macke
• September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich

October

• October – Frankfurt Book Fair

November

• 5 November - 600th year of start of Council of Constance

Deaths

January

Dirk Sager

• 2 January - Thomas Kurzhals (60), German composer (born 1953)
• 2 January - Dirk Sager (73), German journalist (born 1940)
• 9 January - Winfried Hassemer (74), German criminal law scholar (born 1940)
• 22 January - Fred Bertelmann (88), German singer (born 1925)
• 31 January - Gundi Busch (78), German figure skater (born 1935)

February

• 2 February - Gerd Albrecht (78), German conductor (born 1935)
• 4 February - Hubert Luthe, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1927)
• 6 February - Peter Philipp (42), German writer and comedian (born 1971)^[5]
• 17 February - Peter Florin (92), German politician and diplomat (born 1921)
• 18 February - Bernd Noske (67), German singer and drummer (born 1946)
• 24 February - Günter Reisch (86), German film director and screenwriter (born 1927)
• 25 February - Wilfried Brauer (76), German computer scientist (born 1937)

March

• 1 March - Eckart Höfling (77), German Roman Catholic priest in Brazil (born 1936)
• 7 March - Heiko Bellmann (63), German biologist and zoologist (born 1950)
• 9 March - Justus Pfaue (72), German author and director (born 1942)
• 14 March - Werner Rackwitz (84), German opera director (born 1929)

April

Stefanie Zweig

• 3 April - Michael Prinz von Preußen (74), German writer and royalty (born 1940)
• 4 April - Klaus Meyer (76), German footballer (born 1937)
• 8 April - Herbert Schoen (84), German footballer (born 1929)
• 8 April - Karlheinz Deschner (89), German writer (born 1924)
• 11 April - Helga Mees (76), German fencer (born 1937)
• 11 April - Eduard Gaugler (85), German economist (born 1928)
• 21 April - Ilse von Bredow (91), German writer (born 1922)^{[citation needed]}
• 22 April - Werner Potzernheim (87), German cyclist (born 1927)
• 25 April - Stefanie Zweig (81), German writer (born 1932)^[6]
• 26 April - Adolf Seilacher (89), German palaeontologist (born 1925)

May

• 1 May - Heinz Schenk (89), German television presenter (born 1924)
• 1 May - Georg Stollenwerk (83), German footballer and trainer (born 1930)
• 6 May - Cornelius Gurlitt (81), German art collector (born 1932)
• 14 May - Wolfgang Heyl, politician (born 1921)
• 16 May - Rolf Boysen (94), German actor (born 1920)^{[citation needed]}
• 23 May - Richard Kolitsch (24), German footballer (born 1989)
• 30 May - Michael Szameit (63), German writer (born 1950)

June

• 4 June - Kurt Conradi (89), German actor (born 1924)^{[citation needed]}
• 6 June - Hermann Bahlsen (86), German manager (born 1927)
• 9 June - Reinhard Höppner (65), German politician (born 1948)
• 12 June - Frank Schirrmacher (54), German journalist and essayist (born 1959)
• 21 June - Johannes Strassmann (29), German poker player (born 1985)^{[citation needed]}
• 22 June - Werner Biskup (72), German football player (born 1942)^{[citation needed]}
• 28 June - Peter Klose (60), German politician (born 1953)^{[citation needed]}

July

• 5 July - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian (born 1931)
• 7 July - Horst Bollmann, German actor (born 1925)
• 14 July - Karl Düsterberg (97), German manager (born 1917)^{[citation needed]}
• 15 July - Edda Buding (77, German tennis player (born 1936)
• 16 July - Karl Albrecht (94), German manager (born 1920)
• 21 July - Hans-Peter Kaul (70), German judge (born 1943)
• 30 July - Harun Farocki (70), German film director (born 1944)

August

Peter Scholl-Latour

• 1 August - Gert von Paczensky (88), German journalist (born 1925)^{[citation needed]}
• 2 August - Otmar Hornbach (84), German manager (born 1930)^{[citation needed]}
• 5 August - Elfriede Brüning (103), German writer (born 1910)
• 10 August - Günter Junghans (73), German actor (born 1941)^{[citation needed]}
• 15 August - Hermann Weber (92), German historian (born 1928)
• 16 August - Peter Scholl-Latour (90), German journalist (born 1924)
• 20 August - Klaus Zapf (62), German manager (born 1952)^{[citation needed]}
• 20 August - Gert Schaefer (58), German actor (born 1955)^{[citation needed]}
• 21 August - Werner Liersch (81), German writer (born 1932)^{[citation needed]}
• 24 August - Walter Pradt (65), German football player (born 1949)
• 25 August - Karl Ganzhorn (93), German physicist (born 1921)^{[citation needed]}
• 27 August - Benno Pludra (88), German writer (born 1925)

September

Joachim Fuchsberger

• 1 September - Gottfried John (72), German actor (born 1942)
• 4 September - Wolfhart Pannenberg (85), German theologian (born 1928)
• 11 September - Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television moderator (born 1927)
• 20 September - Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (born 1923)

October

Siegfried Lenz

• 3 October - Peer Augustinski (74), German actor (born 1940)
• 7 October - Siegfried Lenz (88), German writer (born 1926)

November

• 1 November - Klaus Bölling (86), German publisher (born 1928)^{[citation needed]}
• 8 November – Hannes Hegen (89), German cartoonist and illustrator (born 1925)
• 13 November - Alexander Grothendieck (86), German-born mathematician (born 1928)
• 19 November - Mike Nichols (83), German-born American director (born 1931)

December

Ernst Albrecht

• 9 December - Karl Otto Pöhl (85), German economist (born 1929)
• 10 December - Ralph Giordano (89), German writer (born 1923)
• 13 December - Ernst Albrecht (84), German politician (born 1930)
• 14 December - Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil, German politician (born 1933)
• 22 December - Fritz Sdunek (67), German boxing trainer and amateur boxer (born 1947)
• 29 December - André Wohllebe, German canoeist(born 1962)
• 30 December - Luise Rainer (104), German born actress (born 1910)

See also

• 2014 in German television

References

1. "Tournament Calendar 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
2. "Germany Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
3. Eckardt, Andy (5 September 2014). "Salafist Muslim Group Forms 'Sharia Police' Patrol in Germany". NBC News. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
4. "Germany won't tolerate 'Sharia police'". Deutsche Welle. 6 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
5. Biographical data in: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2002/2003, Walter De Gruyter, 2003, P. 910
6. "Trauer um Bestseller-Autorin: Stefanie Zweig ist tot" [Mourning a bestselling author: Stefanie Zweig is dead]. spiegel.de (in German). Der Spiegel. 27 April 2014.