2000 in Germany

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Germany.

Incumbents

9Ã¢ÂÂ20 February - 50th Berlin International Film Festival
18 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
27 February - Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2000
14 May - North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000
25 July Ã¢ÂÂ Air France Flight 4590 crashes near Paris, France shortly after taking off, killing 109 people mostly Germans, and 4 on the ground.
30 July - 2000 German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring
2 October - German company ProSiebenSat.1 Media was founded.
Date unknown: German company Mannesmann is taken over by British company Vodafone.
Date unknown: Fusion of German company VEBA and German company to German company E.ON

4 January - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (born 1947)
7 January - Klaus Wennemann, German actor (born 1940)
8 January - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (born 1918)
11 March - Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (born 1912)
17 March - Harry Blum, German politician (born 1944)
10 April Ã¢ÂÂ Walter StÃÂ¶hrer, German painter (born 1937)
21 May - Erich Mielke, German politician (born 1907)
22 May - Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist (born 1930)
21 August - Gustav Scholz, German boxer (born 1930)
2 September - Heinz Harmel, German SS officer (born 1906)
6 September - Fritz Ruchay, German football player and manager (born 1909)
29 September Ã¢ÂÂ Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (born 1907)
2 October - Harald Wust, German general (born 1921)
20 October - Klaus Winter, German judge (born 1936)
15 October Ã¢ÂÂ Konrad Emil Bloch, biochemist (born 1912)
21 November Harald Leipnitz, German actor (born 1926)
12 December - GÃÂ¶tz Friedrich, German opera and theatre director. (born 1930)
13 December -Erhard Krack, German politician (born 1931)
27 December - Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), journalist and science fiction author (born 1931)