The following is a list of events from the year 2010 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
Events
- 16 January â The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security.
- 22 January â A Nuremberg court issues an arrest warrant for former Argentine leader Jorge Rafael Videla, on suspicion of killing a German man.
- 11âÂÂ21 February â 60th Berlin International Film Festival
- 13 February â More than 10,000 anti-fascist protesters successfully block a planned neo-Nazi march in Dresden.
- 4 April â Three car bombs hit the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people.
- 29 May â With the song "Satellite", Germany's Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, the first German victory since 1982.
- 25 June â Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images.
- 30 June â Christian Wulff is elected President of Germany.
- 4 July â In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants.
- 7 July â Spain defeats Germany 1âÂÂ0 to win its semi-final and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.
- 10 July â 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3âÂÂ2 to finish third.
- 12 July â At least eight people are injured after a tornado strikes the German island of Duene in the North Sea.
- 24 July â A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 20 people and injures dozens more people.
- 8 August â Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk wins the 2010 Sparkassen Giro.
- 26 August â German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition.
- 21âÂÂ26 September â photokina in Cologne
- 3 October
- Germany celebrates 20 years of unification.
- The German government pays its last World War I reparations.
- 21 October â Freck Langsam, German no-budget Gangster Comedy film is released.
- 26 October â The number of unemployed in Germany drops first time since 1991 below three million.
- 1 November â German identity cards are issued in the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 format and contain RFID chips with personally identifiable information including a biometric Photo and, if desired, two fingerprints.
- 9 November â Demonstrations in Wendland near Gorleben against CASTOR-transport.
- 29 November â Break of coalition in Hamburg between the Green and CDU parties.
- December â The German Meteorological Service, , says December was the coldest December month since 1969 in Germany.
Deaths
January
- 1 January
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor (b. 1918)
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1911)
- 4 January â Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist (b. 1927)
- 9 January
- Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF (b. 1945)
- Diether Posser, 87, German politician (b. 1922)
- 14 January
- Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author (b. 1941)
- Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956 (b. 1933)
- 15 January â Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer (b. 1952)
- 18 January â Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
- 30 January â Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist (b. 1912)
- 31 January â Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent (b. 1919)
February
- 10 February â Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host (b. 1943)
- 12 February â Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer (b. 1940)
- 14 February â Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian (b. 1897)
- 16 February â Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert (b. 1914)
- 17 February â Ines Paulke, 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide (b. 1958)
- 18 February â Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer (b. 1921)
- 21 February â Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German politician (b. 1917)
- 23 February
- Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), (b. 1946)
- Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction (b. 1919)
- 27 February â David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar (b. 1947)
March
- 5 March â Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1913)
- 12 March â Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician (b. 1928)
- 14 March â Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist (b. 1932)
- 20 March â Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor (b. 1919)
- 21 March â Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival) (b. 1919)
- 22 March â Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer (b. 1938)
- 25 March â Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist (b. 1916)
- 27 March â Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician (b. 1935)
- 30 March
- Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace (b. 1923)
- Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983âÂÂ2004) (b. 1983)
- Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1911)
- 31 March â Ludwig Martin, German lawyer (b. 1909)
April
- 3 April â Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran (b. 1925)
- 4 April
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic (b. 1922)
- Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar (b. 1939)
- 5 April
- Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter (b. 1928)
- Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress (b. 1922)
- 6 April â Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter (b. 1931)
- 8 April â Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor (b. 1952)
- 9 April â Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist (b. 1932)
- 10 April
- Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar (b. 1922)
- Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer (b. 1940)
- 11 April
- Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician (b. 1930)
- Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach (b. 1923)
- Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician (b. 1944)
- Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer (b. 1948)
- Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician (b. 1925)
- 12 April
- Ambrosius EÃÂer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian (b. 1933)
- Wolfgang GraÃÂl, 40, German skier and coach (b. 1970)
- Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director (b. 1945)
- 14 April â Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician (b. 1963)
- 15 April â Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer (b. 1955)
- 17 April â Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran (b. 1922)
- 21 April â Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure (b. 1942)
- 24 April
- Leo Löwenstein, 43, German racing driver (b. 1966)
- Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi army corporal (b. 1921)
- 30 April â Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal (b. 1911)
May
- 3 May
- Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher (b. 1924)
- Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA) (b. 1923)
- 4 May â Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver (b. 1932)
- 5 May â Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist (b. 1931)
- 8 May â Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor (b. 1926)
- 9 May â Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter (b. 1924)
- 12 May
- Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire (b. 1938)
- Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster (b. 1921)
- 13 May
- Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer (b. 1919)
- Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official (b. 1934)
- 15 May â Christian Habicht, 57, German actor (b. 1952)
- 17 May
- Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969âÂÂ1974) (b. 1924)
- Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (b. 1912)
- 23 May â Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor (b. 1902)
- 24 May â Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer (b. 1919)
- 29 May â Paul Müller, 69, German biologist (b. 1940)
June
- 10 June â Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
- 12 June â Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite (b. 1913)
- 13 June â Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (b. 1924)
- 15 June â Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress (b. 1914)
- 18 June â Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933âÂÂ1945) (b. 1916)
- 19 June â Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade) (b. 1924)
- 21 June â Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens) (b. 1947)
- 22 June
- Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose (b. 1918)
- Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer (b. 1941)
- 23 June
- Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager (b. 1944)
- Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games) (b. 1971)
- 28 June
- Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1958)
- Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate (b. 1961)
July
- 2 July â Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist (b. 1926)
- 3 July â Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954 (b. 1930)
- 12 July â Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect (b. 1922)
- 22 July â Herbert Giersch, 89, German economist (b. 1921)
- 24 July â Theo Albrecht, 88, German entrepreneur and billionaire (Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's) (b. 1922)
- 25 July â Erich Steidtmann, 95, German Nazi SS officer (b. 1914)
- 30 July â Otto Joachim, 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music (b. 1910)
August
- 5 August â Jürgen Oesten, 96, German U-boat commander during World War II (b. 1913)
- 7 August â Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander (b. 1917)
- 8 August â Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian (b. 1927)
- 11 August â Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor (b. 1932)
- 12 August â Manfred Homberg, German boxer (b. 1933)
- 18 August
- Maria Wachter, 100, German communist and resistance fighter, member of VVN (b. 1910)
- Sepp Daxenberger, 48, German politician (b. 1962)
- 19 August â Gerhard Beil, 84, East German politician (b. 1926)
- 21 August â Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German film and theatre director (b. 1960)
- 26 August â Walter Wolfrum, 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace (b. 1923)
September
October
November
- 5 November â Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot (b. 1913)
- 6 November â Ezard HauÃÂmann, 75, German actor (b. 1935)
- 15 November â Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Winter sportsman (b. 1953)
- 20 November
- Walter Helmut Fritz, German author (b. 1929)
- Heinz Weiss, German actor (b. 1921)
- 26 November â Maria Hellwig, 90, German singer (b. 1920)
- 30 November â Peter Hofmann, 76, German singer (b. 1944)
December
- 7 December
- Armin Weiss, 83, chemist and politician (b. 1927)
- Arnold Weiss, 86, German-born American soldier (b. 1924)
- 15 December â Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist (b. 1923)
- 17 December â Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster (b. 1952)
- 20 December - Katharina Szelinski-Singer, 92, German sculptor (b. 1918)
See also
References