2015 in Germany explained
The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany.
Incumbents
Joachim Gauck
Angela Merkel
Events
January
- 1 January - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German Minimum Wage Law) comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage.[1]
- 11 January - An arson attack on the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published Charlie Hebdo cartoons, leads to two arrests.[2]
- 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant.[3]
February
March
April
May
June
August
September
- September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- 30 September – Alex Springer Media Group is ordered to pay €635,000 compensation for damages for pain and suffering to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann following their reporting of a case in which he was falsely accused of rape. The award was a record sum for such as case, though later reduced to €395,000 on appeal.[8]
- September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
October
November
December
Deaths
- 1 January: Ulrich Beck (70), German sociologist (born 1944)
- 7 January: Diether Kressel (89), German painter (born 1925)
- 8 January: Hubert Markl (77), German biologist (born 1938)
- 20 January: Edgar Froese (71), German artist and electronic music pioneer (born 1944)
- 25 January - Ernst Träger, German judge (born 1926)
- 31 January: Udo Lattek (79), German football player, coach, and TV pundit (born 1935)
- 31 January: Richard von Weizsäcker (94), German politician (born 1920)
- 18 February: Hans F. Zacher, German jurist (born 1928)
- 26 February: Heinrich Windelen (93), German politician (born 1921)
- 26 February: Fritz J. Raddatz (83), German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier (born 1931)
- 1 March: Chris Welp (51), German professional basketball player (born 1964)
- 1 March: Wolfram Wuttke (53), German footballer (born 1961)
- 5 March: Karina Kraushaar, German actress (born 1971)
- 9 March: Frei Otto (90), German architect (born 1925)
- 26 March: Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (born 1924)
- 30 March: Helmut Dietl (70), German film director and author (born 1944)
- 31 March: Klaus Tschira (74), German entrepreneur (born 1940)
- 13 April: Günter Grass (87), German novelist and author (born 1927)
- 14 April: Klaus Bednarz (72), German journalist (born 1942)
- 9 May: Odo Marquard (86), German philosoph (born 1928)
- 19 May: Gerald Götting (91), German politician (born 1923)
- 20 May: Manfred Müller, German bishop or Roman Catholic Church (born 1926)
- 27 May: Elisabeth Wiedemann (88), German actress (born 1926)
- 3 June: Horst Brandstätter (81), German businessman (born 1933)
- 4 June: Hermann Zapf (96), German typeface designer and calligrapher (born 1918)
- 4 June: Edith Hancke (86), German film actress (born 1928)
- 9 June: James Last (86), German composer and big band leader (born 1929)
- 15 June: Harry Rowohlt (70), German writer and translator (born 1945)
- 21 Jun: Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (83), German politician (born 1932)
- 22 June: Gabriele Wohmann (83), German novelist (born 1932)
- 13 July: Philipp Mißfelder (35), German politician (born 1979)
- 14 July: Wolf Gremm (73), German film director and screenwriter (born 1942)
- 3 August: Johanna Quandt (89), German entrepreneur (born 1926)
- 11 August: Utta Danella (95), German author (born 1920)
- 15 August: Max Greger (89), German jazz musician (born 1926)
- 17 August: Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (82), Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) (born 1933)
- 20 August: Egon Bahr (93), German politician (born 1922)
- 20 August: Armin, Prince of Lippe, German nobleman (born 1924)
- 4 September: Max Kruse (93), German author (born 1921)
- 4 September: Rainer Kirsch, German writer and journalist (born 1934)
- 24 September: Ellis Kaut (94), German author of children's literature, best known for her creation of Pumuckl (born 1920)
- 29 September: Hellmuth Karasek (81), German journalist, literary critic and novelist (born 1934)
- 1 November: Günter Schabowski (86), German official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (born 1922)
- 5 November: Hans Mommsen (85), German historian (born 1930)
See also
References
- Web site: Germany: Parliament Passes Law on Minimum Wage . 2024-05-05 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- News: India Today. 11 January 2015. 11 January 2015.
- News: Connolly . Kate . 2015-01-21 . Germany's Pegida leader steps down over Adolf Hitler photo . 2024-05-05 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
- https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m7598_20150617_20310_4313367_EN.pdf
- Web site: No survivors from German airliner crash in French Alps . 2024-05-05 . Al Jazeera . en.
- News: Germany to hold 2015 G8 summit at Alpine spa. 23 January 2014. AP.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/02/robot-kills-worker-at-volkswagen-plant-in-germany Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany
- Web site: 'Bild' publisher ordered to pay 'record sum' to Kachelmann | DW | 30.09.2015. .
- Web site: Kroll . David . Merck KGaA (German Merck) Buys Sigma-Aldrich For $17B . 2024-05-05 . Forbes . en.
- Web site: 2015-11-17 . Hitachi Buys German Power Tool Maker Metabo For Reported $180 Million . 2024-05-05 . Industrial Distribution . en-us.
