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Events in the year 2019 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
  • Chancellor: Angela Merkel

Events[]

January[]

  • 29 December 2018 to 6 January – The 2018–2019 Four Hills Tournament
  • 22 January – Signing of the Aachen Treaty in Aachen, 56 years to the day after the signing of the Élysée Treaty
  • 26 January – the Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment by the German government recommends Germany to entirely phase out and shut down coal-fired plants on its territory by 2038.

February[]

  • 7 to 17 February – The annual 69th Berlin International Film Festival takes place. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. The Golden Bear was awarded to Israeli-French film Synonyms, directed by Nadav Lapid.[1]
  • 21 February: A German court fines two ex-employers of German gun maker Heckler & Koch for illegal gun sales to Mexico.[2]

May[]

June[]

  • 2 June – Murder of Walter Lübcke: Walter Lübcke, a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, is found shot in the head at close range on the terrace of his residence.[3]

September[]

  • 1 September -
    • 2019 Brandenburg state election The SPD declines 5.7% while wins 26.2% of the vote, AfD becomes the second largest party in Brandenburg with 23.5%.
    • 2019 Saxony state election The CDU declines 7.3% while wins 32.1% of the vote, AfD becomes the second largest party in Saxony with 27.5%.
  • 5 September - The (NPD) National Democratic Party of Germany Stefan Jagsch becomes the Mayor of the Waldsiedlung. The unanimous election of the NPD politician in the local council led to irritation and horror in other parties Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) whose local council members had voted for Jagsch.[4][5]

October[]

  • 9 October — Halle synagogue shooting
  • 27 October — 2019 Thuringian state election: The Die Linke wins the election with 31.0% of the vote, the AfD becomes the second largest party in Thuringia with 23.4% of the vote.

November[]

  • 25 November — 2019 Dresden heist

December[]

Deaths[]

January[]

Theo Adam
Mirjam Pressler
Ursula Karusseit
  • 1 January –
    • Bernd Kröplin, engineer and academic (b. 1944).[6]
    •  [de], German theologist and church historian (b. 1937).[7]
  • 2 January –
    •  [de], German sculptor (b. 1933).[8]
    • Karl Sewart [de], German writer (b. 1933).[9]
  • 3 January – Wulf Steinmann, physicist (b. 1930).[10]
  • 6 January –
    • Gebhardt von Moltke, diplomat (b. 1938).[11]
    • Gustav Andreas Tammann, astronomer (b. 1932).[12]
  • 7 January – Helmut Berding, historian (b. 1930).[13]
  • 8 January – Giorgio Zur, Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio (b. 1930).[14]
  • 10 January –
    • Theo Adam, opera singer (b. 1926).[15]
    • Gerd Jaeger, sculptor and painter (b. 1927).[16]
  • 13 January – Susanne Neumann, author and trade unionist (b. 1959).[17]
  • 14 January – Rainer Stadelmann, egyptologist (b. 1933).[18]
  • 16 January – Mirjam Pressler, writer (b. 1940).[19]
  • 20 January – Klaus Enders, sidecar racer, World Champion (b. 1937).[20]
  • 21 January – Lothar Kobluhn, footballer (b. 1943).[21]
  • 22 January – Wolfgang Thonke, military officer (b. 1938).[22]
  • 27 January – Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, socialite (b. 1958).[23]
  • 29 January – Alf Lüdtke, historian (b. 1943).[24]

February[]

Maximilian Reinelt
Bruno Ganz
Karl Lagerfeld
Hilde Zadek
  • 1 February – Ursula Karusseit, actress (b. 1939)
  • 2 February – William Davis, German-born British journalist (BBC) (b. 1933)
  • 4 February –
    •  [de], historian (b. 1928)
    • Leonie Ossowski, writer (Zwei Mütter) (b. 1925)
  • 6 February –
    • Rudi Assauer, football player and coach (b. 1944)
    • Manfred Eigen, biophysical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
  • 7 February –
    • Heidi Mohr, footballer (TuS Niederkirchen, TuS Ahrbach, national team) (b. 1967)
    • Jörg Schönbohm, military officer and politician, Inspector of the Army, and Deputy Minister President of Brandenburg (b. 1937)
  • 8 February –
    • Seweryn Bialer, German-born American political scientist (b. 1926)
    • Kurt Sommerlatt, football player (Karlsruher SC, Bayern Munich) and manager (Borussia Neunkirchen). (b. 1928)
  • 9 February – Katharina Lindner, German-born Scottish footballer (Glasgow City F.C.) (b. 1979)
  • 10 February –
    • Heinz Fütterer, sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
    • Maximilian Reinelt, rower, Olympic champion and silver medalist (b. 1988)
  • 12 February -
  • 15 February - Erika Simon, archaeologist (b. 1927)
  • 16 February – Bruno Ganz, German-speaking Swiss actor (b. 1941)
  • 19 February – Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer (b. 1933)
  • 20 February –
  • 21 February – Hilde Zadek, soprano (b. 1917)
  • 24 February - Lothar Zenetti, theologian (b. 1926)
  • 25 February - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, judge (b. 1933)
  • 28 February - André Previn, German-born American composer (b. 1929)

March[]

Klaus Kinkel
  • 2 March - Arnulf Baring, German lawyer, historian, journalist and political scientist (born 1932)
  • 4 March – Klaus Kinkel, German civil servant, lawyer, and politician (born 1936)
  • 13 March - Andrea Pollack, German butterfly swimmer (born 1961)
  • 15 March – Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator (born 1963)

April[]

Hannelore Elsner
Ellen Schwiers
  • 2 April – Rosemarie Springer, German Olympic equestrian (b. 1920)[25]
  • 19 April
    • Martin Böttcher, German composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1927[26]
    • Verena Wagner Lafferentz, German associate of Adolf Hitler (b. 1920)[27]
  • 21 April – Hannelore Elsner, German actress (b. 1942)[28]
  • 25 April – Michael Wolf, German photographer (b. 1954)[29]
  • 26 April – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)[30]

May[]

  • 1 May - Beatrix Philipp, German politician (born 1945)
  • 7 May - Georg Katzer, German composer (born 1935)
  • 7 May - Michael Wessing, German javelin thrower (born 1952)
  • 8 May - Jens Beutel, German politician (born 1946)
  • 10 May - Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic bishop (born 1928)
  • 10 May - Anatol Herzfeld, German sculptor (born 1931)
  • 13 May - Jörg Kastendiek, German politician (born 1964)
  • 14 May - Remig Stumpf, German cyclist (born 1966)

June[]

  • 2 June – Walter Lübcke, German politician (b. 1953)[31]
  • 3 June – Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, German royal (b. 1918)[32]
  • 8 June - Karl Hurm, German painter (b. 1930)
  • 13 June - Wilhelm Wieben, German television moderator (born 1935)
  • 15 June - Heinrich Lummer, German politician (b. 1932)
  • 16 June - Rolf von Sydow, German film director (b. 1924)
  • 20 June - Wibke Bruhns, German journalist (born 1938)
  • 28 June - Lisa Martinek, German actress (born 1972)

July[]

Arthur Brauner
  • 2 July - Lis Verhoeven, German actress (born 1931)
  • 7 July – Artur Brauner, Polish-born German film producer (b. 1918)[33]
  • 22 July - Brigitte Kronauer, German writer (born 1940)

August[]

  • 7 August - Helmut Bez, German writer (born 1930)
  • 26 August - Helmut Krauss, German actor (born 1941)
  • 30 August - Udo Schaefer, German writer, jurist and theologian of Bahai (born 1926)

September[]

  • 2 September - , German film producer (born 1964)
  • 3 September - Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer (born 1944)
  • 9 September - Lissy Gröner, German politician (born 1954)
  • 21 September - Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (born 1937)

October[]

Anke Fuchs
  • 14 October - Anke Fuchs, German politician (born 1937)
  • 19 October - Erhard Eppler German politician (born 1926)
  • October - Volker Hinz, German photograph (born 1947)

November[]

  • 2 November - Norbert Eder, German footballer (born 1955)
  • 16 November - , German television moderator (born 1954)

December[]

Manfred Stolpe
  • 2 December - Johann Baptist Metz, German Roman Catholic theologian and priest (born 1928)
  • 7 December - Herbert Joos, German jazz trompeter and graphic designer (born 1940)
  • 17 December - Karin Balzer, German hurdler (born 1938)
  • 20 December - Hermann L. Gremliza, German journalist (born 1940)
  • 20 December - Roland Matthes, German swimmer (born 1950)
  • 29 December - Manfred Stolpe, German politician (born 1936)
  • 30 December - Jan Fedder, German actor (born 1955)
  • 30 December - Harry Kupfer, German opera director and academic.(born 1935)

See also[]

  • 2019 European Parliament election

References[]

  1. ^ Meza, Ed (16 February 2019). "Berlin Film Festival 2019: Nadav Lapid's 'Synonyms' Wins Golden Bear". Variety. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Heckler & Koch fined for illegal gun sales to Mexico". BBC News. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. ^ "German politician Lübcke shot in head at close range". BBC. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Far-Right Politician's Election as Town Council Head Shocks Germany's Mainstream Parties". European Views. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  5. ^ Knight, Ben (7 September 2019). "Germany: Merkel party colleagues elect far-right extremist to local council". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. ^ Bernd-Helmut Kröplin (in German)
  7. ^ "Trauer um Domherr Prof. Dr. Arno Sames". vereinigte-domstifter.de (in German). Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Eckhart Dietz mit 85 Jahren gestorben". remszeitung.de (in German). 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Karl Sewart". gedenken.freiepresse.de (in German). Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  10. ^ Wulf Steinmann (in German)
  11. ^ Gebhardt von Moltke (in German)
  12. ^ Gustav Alfred Andreas Tammann Archived 10 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  13. ^ Helmut Berding (in German)
  14. ^ Archbishop Giorgio Zur
  15. ^ German opera singer Theo Adam dies at 92
  16. ^ Traueranzeige Gerd Jaeger (in German)
  17. ^ Eine, die sichtbar wurde (in German)
  18. ^ Orbituary Prof. Dr. Rainer Stadelmann
  19. ^ Mirjam Pressler (in German)
  20. ^ Death of Klaus Enders
  21. ^ Former Bundesliga top scorer Kobluhn dies aged 75
  22. ^ Wolfgang Tonke (in German)
  23. ^ Maya von Schoenburg dead: Socialite and friend of the Clintons dies aged 60 from cancer
  24. ^ Trauer um Prof. Dr. Alf Lüdtke (in German)
  25. ^ Rosemarie Springer verstorben (in German)
  26. ^ Winnetou-Komponist Martin Böttcher gestorben (in German)
  27. ^ Sie war die letzte Enkelin von Richard Wagner
  28. ^ Hannelore Elsner ist tot (in German)
  29. ^ Photographer Michael Wolf, chronicler of Hong Kong's high-density living, dies
  30. ^ Ellen Schwiers ist tot (in German)
  31. ^ "German politician Lübcke shot in head at close range". BBC. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  32. ^ "Eurohistory: Europe's Oldest Royal Bids Us Adieu: Princess Woizlawa Feodora Reuß Dies Aged 100". 4 June 2019.
  33. ^ Mit 100 Jahren Medienbericht: Berliner Filmproduzent Artur Brauner tot Archived 13 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
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