2013 in Germany

none September 20192013 The following is a list of events from the year 2013 in Germany. Incumbents Federal level thumb|upright|Angela Merkel thumb|upright|Joachim Gauck President: Joachim Gauck 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 (until 18 February), Stephan Weil Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck (until 16 January), Malu Dreyer 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 – Torsten Albig Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht Events January – June January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich 16 January – Malu Dreyer becomes Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, succeeding Kurt Beck, who had served in this position since 1994. 20 January – Lower Saxony state election, 2013 in Niedersachsen 30 January – German Snooker Masters in Berlin 7–17 February – 63rd Berlin International Film Festival 9 February – Education minister Annette Schavan resigns after having her doctorate removed following a plagiarism scandal.Plagiatsaffäre - Alle Fälle von A-Z Business And Science https://business-and-science.de/plagiatsaffaere/ 6 August 2019 de 2013-02-09 German education minister quits over PhD plagiarism http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/09/german-education-minister-quits-phd-plagiarism 2022-10-13 the Guardian en 9–19 February – 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin 13 February – The Europe-wide horsemeat scandal spreads to Germany, as some supermarket products sold as beef are found to contain it. 14 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 – Cascada is selected to represent Germany. March – CeBIT in Hanover March – ITB Berlin in Berlin March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig 18 March -200 year anniversary of German poet and playwright Christian Friedrich Hebbel March – the Merkel government says it would not try to ban the Nationalist National Democratic Party of Germany NPD.Berlin Won’t Join Effort to Ban Far-Right Party 20 March 2013 New York Times April – Hannover Messe in Hanover April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin 1–5 May – German Evangelical Church Day 2013 in Hamburg 18 May – Cascada represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. 22 May 150 year birthday of Social Democratic Party of Germany and in Leipzig organisation Progressive Alliance was found. 200 year anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner 25 May – The first all-German Champions League final takes place at Wembley Stadium in London, and sees Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1. June – Kiel Week in Kiel June – Heavy floods affect primarily the southern and eastern states of (Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia).Update Starkregen und Rückblick Mai http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/klima/news/update-starkregen-und-rueckblick-mai 7 June 2013 ZAMG German July – December August – Hanse Sail in Rostock August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin 10 September Olympic fencing champion German Thomas Bach elected President of the International Olympic Committee to succeed Jacques Rogge. 16 September – Bavaria state election, 2013 in Bavaria September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin September – Gamescom in Cologne September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt September – October – Oktoberfest in Munich 22 September German federal election, 2013 Hesse state election, 2013 in Hesse October – Frankfurt Book Fair October/November – In German media and public the 2013 global surveillance disclosures is on media and politic topic and German people got to know, that the mobile phone of chancellor Angela Merkel was hacked by NSA since 2002. 3 November – Referendum on the recommunalization of energy supply in Berlin 7 December – 26th European Film Awards in Berlin 17 December – The Third Merkel cabinet led by Angela Merkel was sworn in. Deaths January thumb|upright|Jakob Arjouni 1964-2013 3 January – Thomas Schäuble, 64, German politician (b. 1948)http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/04/3167502/german-politician-thomas-schaeuble.html German politician Thomas Schaeuble dies at 64 The Miami Herald 2013-01-04 2013-01-04 6 January – Gerhard Fieber, 96, animation pioneer, producer and director (b. 1916)http://www.stern.de/kultur/tv/trickfilm-pionier-fieber-im-rheingau-gestorben-1950704.html Trickfilm-Pionier Fieber im Rheingau gestorben stern.de 2013-01-06 2013-01-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20130108095127/http://www.stern.de/kultur/tv/trickfilm-pionier-fieber-im-rheingau-gestorben-1950704.html 2013-01-08 dead 9 January – Werner Altegoer, 77, businessman and football administrator (b. 1935) 15 January – Princess Margarita of Baden, 80, aristocrat (b. 1932) 17 January – Jakob Arjouni, 48, writer (b. 1964) 19 January – Hans Massaquoi, 86, German-born American journalist and editor (b. 1926) 24 January – Gottfried Landwehr, 83, physicist (b. 1929) February 3 February – Wolfgang Abraham, 71, footballer (b. 1942) 7 February – Jurgen Untermann, 84, linguist (b. 1928) 8 February – Dieter Schutte, 89, publisher (b. 1923) 9 February – Aki Orr, 81, German-born Israeli politician and writer (b. 1931)February 9, 2013 Akiva Orr, co-founder of Israeli radical left Matzpen party, passes away http://972mag.com/akiva-orr-co-founder-of-radical-israeli-group-passes-away/65705/ 14 February 2013 +972 Magazine 13 February – Stefan Wigger, 80, actor (b. 1932) 18 February Otfried Preußler, 89, children's book author (b. 1923) Otto Beisheim, 88, manager (b. 1924) 19 February – Hubert Schieth, 86, football manager (b. 1927) 22 February – Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, conductor and pianist (b. 1923) March thumb|Dieter Pfaff in 2010 3 March – Johann Eekhoff, 71, economist (b. 1941) 5 March – Dieter Pfaff, 65, actor (b. 1947) 6 March – Sabine Bischoff, 54, fencer (b. 1958) 8 March – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, 90, officer (b. 1922) 11 March – Martin Adolf Bormann, 82, theologian (b. 1930) 13 March – Rolf Schult, 85, actor (b. 1927) 20 March – Nasser El Sonbaty, 47, bodybuilder (b. 1965) 23 March – Reinhard Lakomy, German songwriter, composer (b. 1946) 28 March – Heinz Patzig, 83, footballer (b. 1929) April thumb|upright|Ottmar Schreiner. 6 April – Ottmar Schreiner, 67, politician (b. 1946) 10 April – Bernhard Rieger, 90, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1922) 16 April – Reinhard Lettmann, 80, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1933) May thumb|upright|Sarah Kirsch in 1976 5 May – Sarah Kirsch – German poet (b. 1935) 12 May – Gerd Langguth, 66, German author and professor of policial science (b. 1946) 17 May – Peter Schulz, 81, German politician (b. 1930) 18 May Ernst Klee, 71, German journalist and author (b. 1942) Lothar Schmid, 85, German chess grandmaster (b. 1928) 23 May – Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, 86, German art collector (b. 1926) 24 May – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (b. 1930) 26 May – Hildegard Krekel, 60, German actress (b. 1952) 28 May – Eddi Arent, 88, German actor (b. 1925) June 8 June – Willi Sitte, 92, German painter (b. 1921) 9 June – Walter Jens, 90, German philosoph (b. 1923) 13 June – Gotthard Graubner, 82, German painter (b. 1930) 15 June – Heinz Flohe, 65, German footballer (b. 1948) 16 June – Ottmar Walter, 89, German footballer (b. 1924) July 1 July – Ulrich Matschoss, 96, German actor (b. 1917) 11 July – Egbert Brieskorn, 77, German mathematician (b. 1936) 19 July – Bert Trautmann, 89, German footballer (b. 1923) 29 July – Ludwig Averkamp, 86, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church (b. 1927) 30 July – Berthold Beitz, 99, German businessman (b. 1913) August 13 August – Lothar Bisky, 71, German politician (b. 1941) 17 August – Claus Jacobi, 86, German journalist (b. 1927) 25 August – Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, German historian (b. 1930) September thumb|upright|Marcel Reich-Ranicki 12 September Erich Loest, 87, German writer (b. 1926) Otto Sander, 72, German actor (b. 1941) 18 September – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 93, German literary critic (b. 1920) 21 September – Walter Wallmann, German politician (b. 1932) 23 September – Paul Kuhn, 85, German band leader (b. 1928) October 11 October – Klaus Behrendt, 92, German television actor (b. 1920) 15 October – Hans Riegel, 90, German entrepreneur (b. 1923) 29 October – Rudolf Kehrer, 90, German classical pianist (b. 1923) November thumb|Dieter Hildebrandt 4 November – Hans von Borsody, 84, German film actor (b. 1929) 7 November Manfred Rommel, 84, German politician (b. 1928) Christian Tasche, 56, German television actor (b. 1957) 20 November – Dieter Hildebrandt, 86, German Kabarett artist (b. 1927) December 5 December – Günther Förg, 61, German painter (b. 1952) 9 December – Peter Urban, 72, German translator and writer (b. 1941) 15 December – Helmar Frank, 80, German mathematician (b. 1933) 24 December – Helga M. Novak, 78, German writer (b. 1935) 28 December – Margrit Kennedy, 74, German architect (b. 1939) 31 December – Irina Korschunow, 88, German writer (b. 1925) See also 2013 in German television References 2013 Category:Years of the 21st century in Germany