2014 in Germany

The following is a list of events from the year 2014 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

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 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 6–16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

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 25 May – 2014 European Parliament election in Germany Udo Voigt is elected as the NDP party's first Member of the European Parliament.

June June – Kiel Week in Kiel

July

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 13–24 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. 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. 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

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

February 2 February – Gerd Albrecht, 78, German conductor (b. 1935) 4 February – Hubert Luthe, 86, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (b. 1927) 6 February – Peter Philipp, 42, German writer and comedian (b. 1971)Biographical data in: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2002/2003, Walter De Gruyter, 2003, P. 910 17 February – Peter Florin, 92, German politician and diplomat (b. 1921) 18 February – Bernd Noske, 67, German singer and drummer (b. 1946) 24 February – Günter Reisch, 86, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1927) 25 February – Wilfried Brauer, 76, German computer scientist (b. 1937)

March 1 March – Eckart Höfling, 77, German Roman Catholic priest in Brazil (b. 1936) 7 March – Heiko Bellmann, 63, German biologist and zoologist (b. 1950) 9 March – Justus Pfaue, 72, German author and director (b. 1942) 14 March – Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director (b. 1929) 17 March – Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress (b. 1954)

April

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

May 1 May Heinz Schenk, 89, German television presenter (b. 1924) Georg Stollenwerk, 83, German footballer and trainer (b. 1930) 6 May – Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, German art collector (b. 1932) 14 May – Wolfgang Heyl, politician (b. 1921) 16 May – Rolf Boysen, 94, German actor (b. 1920) 23 May – Richard Kolitsch, 24, German footballer (b. 1989) 30 May – Michael Szameit, 63, German writer (b. 1950)

June 4 June – Kurt Conradi, 89, German actor (b. 1924) 6 June – Hermann Bahlsen, 86, German manager (b. 1927) 9 June – Reinhard Höppner, 65, German politician (b. 1948) 12 June – Frank Schirrmacher, 54, German journalist and essayist (b. 1959) 21 June – Johannes Strassmann, 29, German poker player (b. 1985) 22 June – Werner Biskup, 72, German football player (b. 1942) 28 June – Peter Klose, 60, German politician (b. 1953)

July 5 July – Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian (b. 1931) 7 July – Horst Bollmann, German actor (b. 1925) 14 July – Karl Düsterberg, 97, German manager (b. 1917) 15 July – Edda Buding, 77, German tennis player (b. 1936) 16 July – Karl Albrecht, 94, German manager (b. 1920) 21 July – Hans-Peter Kaul, 70, German judge (b. 1943) 30 July – Harun Farocki, 70, German film director (b. 1944)

August

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

September

1 September – Gottfried John, 72, German actor (b. 1942) 4 September – Wolfhart Pannenberg, 85, German theologian (b. 1928) 11 September – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television moderator (b. 1927) 20 September – Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1923) 27 September – Yvonne-Ruth Killmer (b. 1921)

October

3 October – Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor (b. 1940) 7 October – Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer (b. 1926)

November 1 November – Klaus Bölling, 86, German publisher (b. 1928) 8 November – Hannes Hegen, 89, German cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1925) 13 November – Alexander Grothendieck, 86, German-born mathematician (b. 1928) 19 November – Mike Nichols, 83, German-born American director (b. 1931)

December

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

See also 2014 in German television

References