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Events in the year 2012 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
Christian Wulff
Joachim Gauck
Angela Merkel
State level
Events
January – June
July – December
- July 3 – Heinz Fromm resigns as Head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, following controversies over the organisation's handling of the far-right.
- early July – Success for German players in the Wimbledon tennis Singles: In the Men's section, Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber reach the quarter finals; in the Women's section, Sabine Lisicki reaches the quarter finals, and Angelique Kerber reaches the semi finals.
- July 13 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter alleges that there were irregularities when Germany won the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- July 31 - Germany wins its first Gold Medals of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in the Equestrian sport, taking team gold, and with Michael Jung taking individual gold.
- August 9–12 – Hanse Sail in Rostock
- August 31- September 5 – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
- September 11–16 – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- September 12 - The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled, that the new European bailout fund was inline with the German constitution.
- September 15–19 – gamescom in Cologne
- September 18–23 – photokina in Cologne
- September 20–27 – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- September 21 - JadeWeserPort opened.
- September 22- October 7 – Oktoberfest in Munich
- September 28 - The SPD selects Peer Steinbruck as its candidate to face Angela Merkel in the German federal election, 2013.
- October 4 - Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from Formula One.
- October 5 - Footballer Michael Ballack announces an end to his playing career.
- October 10–14 – Frankfurt Book Fair, with special guest New Zealand.
- November 12 - 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt
- November 25 - In Formula One, German driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year.
- November 26 - A fire at a workshop for disabled people in Southwestern Germany kills 14 people.
- December 10 - An explosive device is found, and made safe, at the main railway station in Bonn.
- December 25 - Joachim Gauck makes his first Christmas address as President.
Births
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Deaths
January
Vadim Glowna 1941–2012
- January 2 – Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, conductor
- January 3 – Willi Entenmann, 68, footballer and coach
- January 4 – Xaver Unsinn, 82, ice hockey player
- January 10 – Kyra T. Inachin, 43, historian
- January 13 – Guido Dessauer, 96, paper engineer and art collector
- January 17 – Julius Meimberg, 95, Luftwaffe flying ace
- January 18 – Georg Lassen, 96, naval officer
- January 24 – Vadim Glowna, 70, actor and film director
- January 25 – Veronica Carstens, 88, former First Lady
February
Gunther Plaut 1912–2012
- February 1 – Lutz Philipp, 71, Olympic athlete
- February 2 – Paul Consbruch, 81, Roman Catholic prelate
- February 8 – Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author
- February 20 – Imanuel Geiss, 81, historian
- February 25 – Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician (died in Hannover)
- February 27 – Werner Guballa, 67, Roman Catholic bishop
March
Friedhelm Konietzka 1938–2012
- March 11 – Hans G. Helms, 79, experimental writer
- March 12 – Friedhelm Konietzka, 73, German-born Swiss footballer and manager
- March 13 – Princess Anna of Saxony, 82, noblewoman.
- March 17 – John Demjanjuk, 91, Ukrainian convicted Nazi war criminal, died in Bad Feilnbach.
- March 19 – Karl-Heinz Spickenagel, 80, footballer.
- March 21 – Albrecht Dietz, 86, entrepreneur and scientist.
- March 29 – Borgia, 18, racehorse.
April
Barbara Buchholz 1959–2012
- April 5 – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, entrepreneur and auto designer.
- April 9 – Ivan Nagel, 80, theatre director.
- April 10 – Barbara Buchholz, 52, musician and composer.
- April 12 – Manfred Orzessek, 78, footballer.
- April 18 – Fritz Theilen, 84, resistance activist.
- April 20 – Peter Carsten, 83, actor.
- April 21 – Heinz Jentzsch, 92, racehorse trainer.
May
- May 3 – Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer.
- May 10 – Horst Faas, 79, photojournalist.
- May 10 – Gunther Kaufmann, 64, actor.
- May 12 – Ernst Josef Fittkau, 75, entomologist.
- May 12 – Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician.
- May 15 – Peter Koslowski, 59, philosopher and academic.
- May 15 – Arno Lustiger, 88, Polish-born writer and historian of Judaism.
- May 16 – Hans Geister, 83, athlete.
- May 18 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, baritone and conductor.
- May 18 – Hans-Dieter Lange, 85, television journalist.
- May 24 – Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born war criminal, died in Ingolstadt.
- May 27 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, mathematician.
- May 30 – Gerhard Pohl, 74, politician.
June
Karl-Heinz Kammerling 1930–2012
- June 9 – Audrey Arno, 70, pop singer.
- June 12 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, 94, psychoanalyst.
- June 14 – Karl-Heinz Kammerling, 82, academic teacher of pianists.
- June 18 – Lina Haag, 105, anti-fascist activist during World War II.
- June 20 – Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Kostritz, 92, nobleman.
- June 24 – Gad Beck, 88, Resistance activist and Holocaust survivor.
- June 24 – Franz Crass, 84, bass singer.
- June 24 – Rudolf Schmid, 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic bishop.
- June 24 – Jean Cox, 90, American opera singer, died in Bayreuth.
- June 25 – Doris Schade, 88, television actress.
- June 27 – Ralph Warren Victor Elliott, 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist.
July
Susanne Lothar 1960–2012
- July 10 – Fritz Langanke, 92, Waffen SS Lieutenant.
- July 18 – Günther Maleuda, 81, politician, President of the People's Chamber (1989–1990).
- July 19 – Hans Nowak, 74, footballer.
- July 21 – Alexander Cockburn, 71, Scottish-born Irish-American journalist and writer, died in Hesse.
- July 21 - Susanne Lothar, 51, actress.
- July 23 – Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, 86, head of the Royal House of Saxony.
- July 27 - Carl-Ludwig Wagner, 82, politician, former Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- July 29 - Heinz Staab, 86, chemist.
- July 31 - Rudolf Kreitlein, 92, football referee.
August
Georg Leber 1920-2012
- August 2 - Bernd Meier, 40, footballer.
- August 8 - Kurt Maetzig, 101, film director.
- August 19 - Hellmut Geissner, 86, scholar.
- August 21 - Georg Leber, 91, politician.
- August 24 - Georg Feuerstein, 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism.
- August 26 - Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish-born German scientist.
- August 28 - Alfred Schmidt, 81, philosopher.
- August 30 - Paul Friedrichs, 72, motocross racer.
- August 31 - Norbert Walter, 67, economist.
September
October
Dirk Bach 1961-2012
- October 1 - Dirk Bach, 51, comedian, actor and television presenter.
- October 4 - Erhard Wunderlich, 55, handball player.
- October 6 - Albert, Margrave of Meissen, 77, nobleman.
- October 11 - Helmut Haller, 73, footballer.
- October 12 - Harry Valérien, 88, sports journalist and presenter.
- October 17 - Henry Friedlander, 82, German-born American Jewish historian.
- October 27 - Hans Werner Henze, 86, composer.
- October 31 - Alfons Demming, 84, Roman Catholic prelate.
November
December
Peter Struck 1943-2012
- December 4 - Peter Kiesewetter, 67, composer.
- December 7 - Berthold Albrecht, 58, businessman.
- December 11 - Albert O. Hirschman, 97, German-born American economist.
- December 14 - Klaus Koste, 69, gymnast.
- December 16 - Axel Anderson, 83, German-born Puerto Rican actor
- December 19 - Peter Struck, 69, politician.
- December 25 - Rudolf Muller, 81, Roman Catholic prelate.
- December 27 - Jesco von Puttkamer, 79, German-born American aerospace engineer.
- December 28 - Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach.
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