2010 in Germany
| Years in Germany: | 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 |
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
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| Years: | 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 |
Events in the year 2010 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
- President –
- until 31 May: Horst Köhler
- 31 May-30 June: Jens Böhrnsen
- starting 30 June: Christian Wulff
- Chancellor – Angela Merkel
Events
- January 16 – The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security.[1]
- January 22 – A Nuremberg court issues an arrest warrant for former Argentine leader Jorge Rafael Videla, on suspicion of killing a German man.[2][3]
- April 4 – 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.[4]
- 29 May – With the song "Satellite", Germany's Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, the first German victory since 1982.[5]
- June 3 – Christian Wulff is nominated for President of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel.[6]
- June 25 – Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images.[7]
- July 4 – In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants.[8]
- July 7 – Spain defeats Germany 1-0 to win its semi-final and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.[9]
- July 10 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3-2 to finish third.[10]
- July 12 – At least eight people are injured after a tornado strikes the German island of Duene in the North Sea.[11]
- July 24 – A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 20 people and injures dozens more people.
- August 16 – Nadja Benaissa, a HIV-positive former singer in the German girl band No Angels, goes on trial for allegedly not advising sexual partners of her condition.[12]
- August 26 – 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.[13]
- September 21–26 – photokina in Cologne
- September 28 – Germany's £22billion World War I debt is finally paid off after more than 90 years.[14]
- October 3 – Germany celebrates 20 years of unification.[15] The government pays its last World War I reparations.
- October 26 – The number of unemployed in Germany drops first time since 1991 below three million.[16]
- November 1 – 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.
Photo: Dorothea von Haeften
- November 9 – Demonstrations in Wendland near Gorleben against CASTOR-transport.[17]
- November 29 – Break of coalition in Hamburg between parties of Green and CDU[18]
- December – Offenbach: Deutsche Wetterdienst says December was coldest December month since 1969 in Germany.[19]
Sports
- 8 August: Ellen van Dijk wins the 2010 Sparkassen Giro
Deaths
- January 1 – Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [16]
- January 1 – Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [17]
- January 4 – Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [18]
- January 9 – Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. [19]
- January 9 – Diether Posser, 87, German politician. [20]
- January 14 – Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author. [21]
- January 14 – Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. [22]
- January 15 – Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. [23]
- January 18 – Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. [24]
- January 30 – Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. [25] (German)
- January 31 – Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. [26]
- February 10 – Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host. [27]
- February 12 – Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer. [28]
- February 14 – Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian. [29]
- February 16 – Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert. [30]
- February 17 – Ines Paulke, 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide. [31]
- February 18 – Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer. [32]
- February 23 – Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer. [33]
- February 23 – Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction. [34]
- February 27 – David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar. [35]
- March 5 – Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. [36]
- March 12 – Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. [37]
- March 14 – Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. [38]
- March 20 – Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor. [39]
- March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. [40]
- March 22 – Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. [41]
- March 25 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. [42]
- March 27 – Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. [43]
- March 30 – Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace. [44]
- March 30 – Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). [45]
- March 30 – Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. [46]
- April 3 – Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran. [47]
- April 4 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic. [48]
- April 4 – Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar. [49]
- April 5 – Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter. [50]
- April 5 – Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress. [51]
- April 6 – Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter. [52]
- April 8 – Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure. [53]
- April 9 – Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness. [54]
- April 10 – Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar. [55]
- April 10 – Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness. [56]
- April 11 – Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness. [57]
- April 11 – Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach. [58]
- April 11 – Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness. [59]
- April 11 – Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure. [60]
- April 11 – Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician. [61]
- April 12 – Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease. [62]
- April 12 – Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure. [63]
- April 12 – Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness. [64]
- April 14 – Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia. [65]
- April 15 – Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia. [66]
- April 17 – Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran. [67]
- April 17 – Axel Weishaupt, 64, German diplomat, ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007–2010), heart failure. [68]
- April 21 – Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure. [69]
- April 24 – Leo Löwenstein, 43, German racing driver, race accident. [70]
- April 24 – Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure. [71]
- April 30 – Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal. [72]
- May 3 – Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher. [73]
- May 3 – Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke. [74]
- May 4 – Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver. [75]
- May 5 – Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist. [76]
- May 8 – Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor, after long illness. [77]
- May 9 – Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter. [78]
- May 12 – Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire, choking. [79]
- May 12 – Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster. [80]
- May 13 – Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer. [81]
- May 13 – Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official. [82]
- May 15 – Christian Habicht, 57, German actor, heart attack. [83]
- May 17 – Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974). [84]
- May 17 – Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser. [85]
- May 23 – Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor. [86]
- May 24 – Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer. [87]
- May 29 – Paul Müller, 69, German biologist. [88]
- May 30 – Klaus Kandaouroff, 80, German businessman and philanthropist, shot. [89]
- June 10 – Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer. [90]
- June 12 – Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite. [91]
- June 13 – Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [92]
- June 15 – Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress. [93]
- June 18 – Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945). [94]
- June 19 – Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade). [95]
- June 21 – Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash. [96]
- June 22 – Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose. [97]
- June 22 – Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness. [98]
- June 23 – Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer. [99]
- June 23 – Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games). [100]
- June 28 – Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack. [101]
- July 2 – Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist. [102]
- July 3 – Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide. [103] (body discovered on this date)
- July 3 – Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954 [104]
- July 12 – Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect. [105]
- July 22 – Herbert Giersch, 89, German economist. [106]
- July 24 – Theo Albrecht, 88, German entrepreneur and billionnaire (Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's). [107]
- July 25 – Erich Steidtmann, 95, German Nazi SS officer. [108]
- July 30 – Otto Joachim, 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music. [109]
- August 5 – Jürgen Oesten, 96, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II. [110]
- August 7 – Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander, after long illness. [111]
- August 8 – Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian. [112]
- August 11 – Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor. [113]
- August 18 – Maria Wachter, 100, German communist and resistance fighter, member of VVN. [114] (German)
- August 18 – Sepp Daxenberger, 48, German politician, bone marrow cancer. [115] (German)
- August 19 – Gerhard Beil, 84, East German politician. [116] (German)
- August 21 – Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German film and theatre director, lung cancer. [117]
- August 26 – Walter Wolfrum, 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace. [118]
- September 7 – Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager.
- September 11 – Baerbel Bohley, 65, East German opposition figure & artist.
- September 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German nobleman.
- September 18 – Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.
- October 14 – Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician.
- October 21 – Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of Helmut Schmidt.
- November 5 – Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
- November 6 – Ezard Haußmann,75, German actor.
- November 15 – Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Winter sportsman.
- November 20 – Heinz Weiss, 89, German actor.
- November 20 – Walter Helmut Fritz, 81, German author.
- November 26 – Maria Hellwig, 90, German singer.
- November 30 – Peter Hofmann, 76, German singer.
- December 7 – Armin Weiss, 83, chemist and politician.
- December 7 – Arnold Weiss, 86, German-born American soldier.
- December 15 – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist.
- December 17 – Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster.
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- ^ DW:The number of unemployed in Germany drops below three million (DW)
- ^ welt.de: Wendland – Zehntausende protestieren gegen Castor-Transport .
- ^ spiegel.de: GAL beendet schwarz-grüne Koalition
- ^ dwd.de: Deutschlandwetter im Dezember 2010
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