2014 in Germany explained

Events in 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^[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

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 22 June - Werner Biskup (72), German football player (born 1942)
• 28 June - Peter Klose (60), German politician (born 1953)

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)
• 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

• 1 August - Gert von Paczensky (88), German journalist (born 1925)
• 2 August - Otmar Hornbach (84), German manager (born 1930)
• 5 August - Elfriede Brüning (103), German writer (born 1910)
• 10 August - Günter Junghans (73), German actor (born 1941)
• 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)
• 20 August - Gert Schaefer (58), German actor (born 1955)
• 21 August - Werner Liersch (81), German writer (born 1932)
• 24 August - Walter Pradt (65), German football player (born 1949)
• 25 August - Karl Ganzhorn (93), German physicist (born 1921)
• 27 August - Benno Pludra (88), German writer (born 1925)

September

• 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

• 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)
• 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

• 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

Notes and References

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