Events in the year 2009 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level President – Horst Köhler Chancellor – Angela Merkel
State level Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg – Günther Oettinger Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer Governing mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit First mayor of Bremen – Jens Böhrnsen Minister-President of Brandenburg – Matthias Platzeck First mayor of Hamburg – Ole von Beust Minister-President of Hesse – Roland Koch Minister-President of Lower Saxony – Christian Wulff Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Jürgen Rüttgers Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck Minister-President of the Saarland – Peter Müller Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Wolfgang Böhmer Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Peter Harry Carstensen Minister-President of Thuringia – Dieter Althaus
Events 15 January – Germany presses Moscow and Kyiv to end the Russian gas crisis.The Times 5–15 February – 59th Berlin International Film Festival 9 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 March – The Volkswagen Polo Mk5 is launched at the Geneva Motor Show and was voted European Car of the Year eight months later. 11 March – A 17-year-old former student goes on a rampage at his former school in Winnenden, Germany, killing at least fifteen people, before turning the gun on himself. 23 May – 2009 German presidential election 15–23 August – 2009 World Championships in Athletics takes place in Berlin. Usain Bolt breaks the world records for 200 metres and 100 metres. 30 August – 2009 Saarland state election, 2009 Saxony state election and 2009 Thuringia state election take place September – Opel launches new Astra at Frankfurt Motor Show. 27 September – 2009 German federal election takes place. Angela Merkel wins reelection as chancellor. 27 September – 2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election and 2009 Brandenburg state election take place. 28 October – German bishop Margot Käßmann becomes first elected woman as leader of Evangelical Church in Germany. 28 October – The Second Merkel cabinet led by Angela Merkel was sworn in. 30 October – Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) becomes Minister-President of state Thuringia. 27 November – Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr, and Franz Josef Jung resign over allegations that they withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike. 30 November – Ursula von der Leyen becomes Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany) and Kristina Köhler becomes new Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth December – Dresdner Bank was acquired by German Commerzbank.
Deaths
5 January – Adolf Merckle, industrialist (born 1934) 2 March – Ernst Benda, politician (born 1925) 3 March - Johanna König, actress (born 1921) 28 March – Helmut Noller, Olympic canoe sprinter (born 1919) 4 May – Gisela Stein, German actress (born 1935) 13 May – Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (born 1944) 23 May – Barbara Rudnik, actress (born 1958) 9 June – Karl Michael Vogler, actor (born 1928) 17 June – Ralf Dahrendorf, sociologist and politician (born 1929) 19 June – Joerg Hube, actor (born 1943) 30 June – Pina Bausch, choreographer and dancer (born 1940) 30 July – Peter Zadek, theatre and film director (born 1926) 18 August – Hildegard Behrens, opera singer (born 1937) 22 August – Horst E. Brandt, film director (born 1923) 29 August – Mady Rahl, actress (born 1915) 19 September – Eduard Zimmermann, journalist (born 1929) 3 October – Reinhard Mohn, businessman (born 1921) 4 October – Guenther Rall, fighter pilot (born 1918) 6 October – Werner Maihofer, jurist and legal philosopher (born 1918) 9 October – Horst Szymaniak, footballer (born 1934) 19 October – Dietrich von Bothmer, art historian (born 1918) 10 November – Robert Enke, footballer (born 1977) 15 November – Hans Matthöfer, German politician (born 1925) 27 November – Erich Böhme, journalist (born 1930) 5 December – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician of the Free Democratic Party (born 1926) 23 December – Rainer Zepperitz, German double bassist (born 1930)
See also 2009 in German television
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