2014 in Germany
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The following is a list of events from 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]- 6–16 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
- 25 May –
- 2014 European Parliament election in Germany
- Udo Voigt is elected as the NDP party's first Member of the European Parliament.
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
- 13–24 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 (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
[edit]- 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)[5]
- 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
[edit]- 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
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- 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)[citation needed]
- 22 April – Werner Potzernheim, 87, German cyclist (b. 1927)
- 25 April – Stefanie Zweig, 81, German writer (b. 1932)[6]
- 26 April – Adolf Seilacher, 89, German palaeontologist (b. 1925)
May
[edit]- 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)[citation needed]
- 23 May – Richard Kolitsch, 24, German footballer (b. 1989)
- 30 May – Michael Szameit, 63, German writer (b. 1950)
June
[edit]- 4 June – Kurt Conradi, 89, German actor (b. 1924)[citation needed]
- 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)[citation needed]
- 22 June – Werner Biskup, 72, German football player (b. 1942)[citation needed]
- 28 June – Peter Klose, 60, German politician (b. 1953)[citation needed]
July
[edit]- 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)[citation needed]
- 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
[edit]
- 1 August – Gert von Paczensky, 88, German journalist (b. 1925)[citation needed]
- 2 August – Otmar Hornbach, 84, German manager (b. 1930)[citation needed]
- 5 August – Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer (b. 1910)
- 10 August – Günter Junghans, 73, German actor (b. 1941)[citation needed]
- 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)[citation needed]
- Gert Schaefer, 58, German actor (b. 1955)[citation needed]
- 21 August – Werner Liersch, 81, German writer (b. 1932)[citation needed]
- 24 August – Walter Pradt, 65, German football player (b. 1949)
- 25 August – Karl Ganzhorn, 93, German physicist (b. 1921)[citation needed]
- 27 August – Benno Pludra, 88, German writer (b. 1925)
September
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- 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)[7]
October
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- 3 October – Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor (b. 1940)
- 7 October – Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer (b. 1926)
November
[edit]- 1 November – Klaus Bölling, 86, German publisher (b. 1928)[citation needed]
- 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
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- 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
[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.
- ↑ Kirsten Nies. "Freyer, Yvonne Ruth ... geb. 12.9.1921, gest. 27.9.2014: Chefredakteurin der Zeitung »Das Freie Wort« und der Zeitschriften »Für Dich« und »Sibylle«". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
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