2012 in Germany

none September 20192012 The following is a list of events from the year 2012 in Germany. Incumbents Federal level thumb|120px|right|Christian Wulff thumb|120px|right|Joachim Gauck thumb|120px|right|Angela Merkel President: Christian Wulff (until 17 February 2012) Horst Seehofer (Acting; 17 February – 18 March 2012) Joachim Gauck (from 18 March 2012) Chancellor: Angela Merkel State level Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit Minister-President of Brandenburg – Matthias Platzeck Mayor of Bremen – Jens Boehrnsen Mayor of Hamburg – Olaf Scholz Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering Minister-President of Niedersachsen – David McAllister Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck Minister-President of Saarland – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Reiner Haseloff Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Peter Harry Carstensen to 12 June Torsten Albig Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht Events January – June 6 January – In state Saarland coalition of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer breaks up. 20 January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich 23 January – The drugstore Schlecker files for bankruptcy. 9–19 February – 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin 16 February – Roman Lob is selected to represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest. 17 February – German President Christian Wulff resigns following a major loan scandal. 19 February – Joachim Gauck is chosen as the main candidate to succeed Christian Wulff. 27 February – The party Die Linke selects Beate Klarsfeld as its candidate to succeed Christian Wulff. 29 February – Schlecker announces the closure of half its stores across Germany.Schlecker drugstore to close half its shops - the Local http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120229-41063.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120303205124/http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120229-41063.html 2012-03-03 2012-03-01 6–10 March – CeBIT in Hanover 7–11 March – ITB Berlin in Berlin 15–18 March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig 18 March – German presidential election, 2012 – Joachim Gauck is elected President of Germany, taking the oath of office on 23 March 25 March – 1 April – 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund 25 March – Elections in state Saarland 23–27 April – Hannover Messe in Hanover 27 April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin 6 May – Elections in Schleswig-Holstein 13 May – Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft is elected to continue as Minister-President, heading an SPD-Green coalition. 22 May – Peter Altmaier replaces Norbert Rottgen as Environment Minister. 26 May – Roman Lob represents Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing 8th.Roman Lob | Das Erste: Eurovision Song Contest – Teilnehmer http://www.eurovision.de/teilnehmer/romanlob101.html 17 February 2012 Eurovision.de June – The Germany national football team takes part in UEFA Euro 2012. 9 June – 16 September: dOCUMENTA (13) 12 June – Torsten Albig is elected as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, after the SPD, Greens and South Schleswig Voter Federation agree to form a coalition in the state. 18–24 June – Kiel Week in Kiel 28 June – UEFA Euro 2012: The Germany national football team is knocked out at the semi-final stage, by the Italy national football team, through two goals from Mario Balotelli. Date unknown: As the largest German-Sino transaction ever, at the end of January 2012 German company Putzmeister was sold to the company Chinese Sany Heavy Industries. July – December 3 July – 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. 13 July – FIFA President Sepp Blatter alleges that there were irregularities when Germany won the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup. 31 July – 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. 9–12 August – Hanse Sail in Rostock 31 August – 5 September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin 11–16 September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin 12 September – The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled, that the new European bailout fund was inline with the German constitution. 15–19 September – Gamescom in Cologne 18–23 September – photokina in Cologne 20–27 September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt 21 September – JadeWeserPort opened.Jade-Weser-Port: Politik und Wirtschaft feiern Eröffnung http://www.abendblatt.de/region/article109382891/JadeWeserPort-Politik-und-Wirtschaft-feiern-Eroeffnung.html 2012-09-22 22 September – 7 October – Oktoberfest in Munich 28 September – The SPD selects Peer Steinbruck as its candidate to face Angela Merkel in the German federal election, 2013. 4 October – Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from Formula One. 5 October – Footballer Michael Ballack announces an end to his playing career. 10–14 October – Frankfurt Book Fair, with special guest New Zealand. 12 November – 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt 25 November – In Formula One, German driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year. 26 November – A fire at a workshop for disabled people in Southwestern Germany kills 14 people. 6 December – German officials tried to outlaw the Nationalist National Democratic Party of Germany, with the interior ministers of all 16 states recommending a ban. The Federal Constitutional Court is yet to vote on the recommendation.6 December 2012 Germany seeks to ban far-right party 3 News NZ http://www.3news.co.nz/Germany-seeks-to-ban-far-right-party/tabid/417/articleID/279402/Default.aspx dead 5 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20130928210537/http://www.3news.co.nz/Germany-seeks-to-ban-far-right-party/tabid/417/articleID/279402/Default.aspx 28 September 2013 10 December – An explosive device is found, and made safe, at the main railway station in Bonn. 25 December – Joachim Gauck makes his first Christmas address as President. Date unknown: German company Volkswagen Group acquired Italian company Ducati and German companies MAN and Porsche. Deaths January thumb|120px|right|Vadim Glowna 1941–2012 2 January – Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, conductor (b. 1933) 3 January – Willi Entenmann, 68, footballer and coach (b. 1943) 4 January – Xaver Unsinn, 82, ice hockey player (b. 1929) 8 January – Bernhard Schrader, chemist and academic (b. 1931) 10 January – Kyra T. Inachin, 43, historian (b. 1968) 13 January – Guido Dessauer, 96, paper engineer and art collector (b. 1915) 17 January – Julius Meimberg, 95, Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1917) 18 January – Georg Lassen, 96, naval officer (b. 1915) 24 January – Vadim Glowna, 70, actor and film director (b. 1941) 25 January – Veronica Carstens, 88, former First Lady (b. 1923) February thumb|120px|right|Gunther Plaut 1912–2012 1 February – Lutz Philipp, 71, Olympic athlete (b. 1940) 2 February – Paul Consbruch, 81, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1930) 8 February – Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1912) 20 February – Imanuel Geiss, 81, historian (b. 1931) 25 February – Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician (b. 1932) 27 February – Werner Guballa, 67, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1944) March 11 March – Hans G. Helms, 79, experimental writer (b. 1932) 13 March – Princess Anna of Saxony, 82, noblewoman (b. 1929)April 2020 19 March – Karl-Heinz Spickenagel, 80, footballer (b. 1932) 21 March – Albrecht Dietz, 86, entrepreneur and scientist (b. 1926) April thumb|120px|right|Barbara Buchholz 1959–2012 5 April – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, entrepreneur and auto designer (b. 1935) 6 April – Heinz Kunert, German engineer (b. 1927) 9 April – Ivan Nagel, 80, theatre director (b. 1931) 10 April – Barbara Buchholz, 52, musician and composer (b. 1959) 12 April – Manfred Orzessek, 78, footballer (b. 1933) 18 April – Fritz Theilen, 84, resistance activist (b. 1927) 20 April – Peter Carsten, 83, actor (b. 1928) 21 April – Heinz Jentzsch, 92, racehorse trainer (b. 1920) May 120px|thumb|right|Günther Kaufmann 3 May – Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer (b. 1922) 10 May Horst Faas, 79, photojournalist (b. 1933) Gunther Kaufmann, 64, actor (b. 1947) 12 May Ernst Josef Fittkau, 75, entomologist (b. 1927) Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (b. 1923) 15 May Peter Koslowski, 59, philosopher and academic (b. 1952) Arno Lustiger, 88, Polish-born writer and historian of Judaism (b. 1922) 16 May – Hans Geister, 83, athlete (b. 1928) 18 May Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, baritone and conductor (b. 1925) Hans-Dieter Lange, 85, television journalist (b. 1926) 19 May – Gerhard Hetz 69, swimmer (b. 1942) 24 May – Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born war criminal, died in Ingolstadt (b. 1922) 27 May – Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, mathematician (b. 1927) 30 May – Gerhard Pohl, 74, politician (b. 1937) June thumb|120px|right|Karl-Heinz Kammerling 1930–2012 9 June – Audrey Arno, 70, pop singer (b. 1942) 12 June – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, 94, psychoanalyst (b. 1917) 14 June – Karl-Heinz Kammerling, 82, academic teacher of pianists (b. 1930) 18 June – Lina Haag, 105, anti-fascist activist during World War II. (b. 1907) 20 June – Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Kostritz, 92, nobleman (b. 1919) 24 June Gad Beck, 88, Resistance activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923) Franz Crass, 84, bass singer (b. 1928) Rudolf Schmid, 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1914) 25 June – Doris Schade, 88, television actress (b. 1924) 27 June – Ralph Warren Victor Elliott, 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist (b. 1921) July thumb|100px|right|Susanne Lothar 1960–2012 10 July – Fritz Langanke, 92, Waffen SS Lieutenant (b. 1919) 18 July – Günther Maleuda, 81, politician, President of the People's Chamber (1989–1990) (b. 1931) 19 July – Hans Nowak, 74, footballer (b. 1937) 21 July – Susanne Lothar, 51, actress (b. 1960) 23 July – Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, 86, head of the Royal House of Saxony (b. 1926) 27 July – Carl-Ludwig Wagner, 82, politician, former Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (b. 1930) 29 July – Heinz Staab, 86, chemist (b. 1926) 31 July – Rudolf Kreitlein, 92, football referee (b. 1919) August thumb|100px|right|Georg Leber 1920-2012 2 August – Bernd Meier, 40, footballer (b. 1972) 8 August – Kurt Maetzig, 101, film director (b. 1911) 19 August – Hellmut Geissner, 86, scholar (b. 1926) 21 August – Georg Leber, 91, politician (b. 1920) 24 August – Georg Feuerstein, 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism (b. 1947) 26 August – Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish-born German scientist (b. 1940) 28 August – Alfred Schmidt, 81, philosopher (b. 1931) 30 August – Paul Friedrichs, 72, motocross racer (b. 1940) 31 August – Norbert Walter, 67, economist (b. 1944) September 8 September Adolf Bechtold, 86, footballer (b. 1926) Peter Hussing, 64, boxer (b. 1948) 16 September – Friedrich Zimmermann, 87, politician (b. 1925) 21 September – Sven Hassel, 95, Danish-born German soldier and author (b. 1917) October thumb|100px|Dirk Bach 1961-2012 1 October – Dirk Bach, 51, comedian, actor and television presenter (b. 1961) 4 October – Erhard Wunderlich, 55, handball player (b. 1956) 6 October – Albert, Margrave of Meissen, 77, nobleman (b. 1934) 11 October – Helmut Haller, 73, footballer (b. 1939) 12 October – Harry Valérien, 88, sports journalist and presenter (b. 1923) 17 October – Henry Friedlander, 82, German-born American Jewish historian (b. 1930) 27 October – Hans Werner Henze, 86, composer (b. 1926) 31 October – Alfons Demming, 84, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928) November 8 November – Pete Namlook, 51, composer and producer (b. 1960) 10 November – Wilhelm Hennis, 89, political scientist (b. 1923) 18 November – Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 96, German-born American foreign policy official (b. 1926) 29 November – Klaus Schutz, 86, former Mayor of Berlin (b. 1926) December thumb|120px|right|Peter Struck 1943-2012 4 December – Peter Kiesewetter, 67, composer (b. 1945) 7 December – Berthold Albrecht, 58, businessman (b. 1954) 11 December – Albert O. Hirschman, 97, German-born American economist (b. 1915) 14 December – Klaus Koste, 69, gymnast (b. 1943) 16 December – Axel Anderson, 83, German-born Puerto Rican actor (b. 1929) 19 December – Peter Struck, 69, politician (b. 1943) 25 December – Rudolf Muller, 81, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931) 27 December – Jesco von Puttkamer, 79, German-born American aerospace engineer (b. 1933) 28 December – Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach (b. 1924) See also 2012 in German television References 30em 2012 Germany Germany Category:2010s in Germany Category:Years of the 21st century in Germany