2014 in Germany
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Events in the year 2014 in Germany.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal level
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State level
[edit]- 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
[edit]January
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 6 to 16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
- February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014[2]
March
[edit]- March – CeBIT in Hanover
- March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
- March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
- 7 March - 300th year of Treaty of Rastatt
April
[edit]- April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
- April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
May
[edit]- 24 May - 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer
June
[edit]July
[edit]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- October – Frankfurt Book Fair
November
[edit]- 5 November - 600th year of start of Council of Constance
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 3 October - Peer Augustinski (74), German actor (born 1940)
- 7 October - Siegfried Lenz (88), German writer (born 1926)
November
[edit]- 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
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- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Tournament Calendar 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ^ "Germany Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Eckardt, Andy (5 September 2014). "Salafist Muslim Group Forms 'Sharia Police' Patrol in Germany". NBC News. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ "Germany won't tolerate 'Sharia police'". Deutsche Welle. 6 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Biographical data in: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2002/2003, Walter De Gruyter, 2003, P. 910
- ^ "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.
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