2015 in Germany

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Decades:

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Incumbents

President – Joachim Gauck
Chancellor – Angela Merkel

Events

January

January 1 - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German Minimum Wage Law) comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage.
January 11 - An arson attack on the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published Charlie Hebdo cartoons, leads to two arrests.^[1]
January 21 - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9th of April, the position is still vacant.

February

February 15: Hamburg state election, 2015 in Hamburg

March

March 5 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
March 24 - The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads to widespread media coverage and public attention in Germany. 72 Germans die aboard the German machine that was intentionally crashed by its German co-pilot.
March – CeBIT in Hanover
March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig

April

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

May

May 10 - Bremen state election, 2015 in Bremen

June

June 7-8 – 41st G7 summit will be held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria.^[2]
June – Kiel Week in Kiel
June 29 – A robot grabbed a man at a Volkswagen production plant in Baunatal and crushed him to death against a metal plate. Prosecutors considered bringing charges after the incident.^[3]

August

August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

September

September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
September – gamescom in Cologne
September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich

October

October – Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt

December

December 31 – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany

Deaths

Richard von Weizsäcker

January 1: Ulrich Beck (70), German sociologist
January 7: Diether Kressel (89), German painter
January 8: Hubert Markl (77), German biologist
January 20: Edgar Froese (71), German artist and electronic music pioneer
January 31: Udo Lattek (79), German football player, coach, and TV pundit
January 31: Richard von Weizsäcker (94), German politician
February 26: Heinrich Windelen (93), German politician
February 26: Fritz J. Raddatz (83), German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier
March 1: Chris Welp (51), German professional basketball player
March 1: Wolfram Wuttke (53), German footballer
March 9: Frei Otto (90), German architect
March 30: Helmut Dietl (70), German film director and author
March 31: Klaus Tschira (74), German entrepreneur

Günter Grass

April 13: Günter Grass (87), German novelist and author
April 14: Klaus Bednarz (72), German journalist
May 9: Odo Marquard (86), German philosoph
May 19: Gerald Götting (91), German politician
May 27: Elisabeth Wiedemann (88), German actress
June 3: Horst Brandstätter (81), German businessman
June 4: Hermann Zapf (96), German typeface designer and calligrapher
June 4: Edith Hancke (86), German film actress
June 9: James Last (86), German composer and big band leader
June 15: Harry Rowohlt (70), German writer and translator
Jun 21: Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (83), German politician
June 22: Gabriele Wohmann (83), German novelist
July 13: Philipp Mißfelder (35), German politician
July 14: Wolf Gremm (73), German film director and screenwriter
August 3: Johanna Quandt (89), German entrepreneur
August 11: Utta Danella (95), German author
August 15: Max Greger (89), German jazz musician
August 17: Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (82), Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
August 20: Egon Bahr (93), German politician
September 4: Max Kruse (93), German author
September 24: Ellis Kaut (94), German author of children's literature, best known for her creation of Pumuckl,
September 29: Hellmuth Karasek (81), German journalist, literary critic and novelist
November 1: Günter Schabowski (86), German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
November 5: Hans Mommsen (85), German historian

Helmut Schmidt

November 10: Helmut Schmidt (96), German chancellor
December 5: Wolfgang Sandner (66), German physicist
December 15: Stella Doufexis (47), German mezzo-soprano opera singer
December 19: Kurt Masur (88), German conductor

References

↑ "India Today". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
↑ "Germany to hold 2015 G8 summit at Alpine spa". AP. January 23, 2014.
↑ Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany The Guardian, 2015-07-01.

Years in Germany (1871–present)

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