2000 in Germany
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
Events
- 9–20 February - 50th Berlin International Film Festival
- 18 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
- 27 February - Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2000
- 14 May - North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000
- 25 July – Air France Flight 4590 crashes near Paris, France shortly after taking off, killing 109 people mostly Germans, and 4 on the ground.
- 30 July - 2000 German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring
- 2 October - German company ProSiebenSat.1 Media was founded.
- Date unknown: German company Mannesmann is taken over by British company Vodafone.
- Date unknown: Fusion of German company VEBA and German company to German company E.ON
Sport
- 2000 Betty Barclay Cup
- 2000 Faber Grand Prix
- 2000 FIRA Women's European Championship
- 2000 Sparkassen Cup (tennis)
- 2000 WTA German Open
- 2000 German F1 Grand Prix
Births
- 1 December - Sophia Flörsch, racing driver
Deaths
- 4 January - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian
- 7 January - Klaus Wennemann, German actor
- 8 January - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian
- 11 March - Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast
- 17 March - Harry Blum, German politician
- 10 April — Walter Stöhrer, German painter
- 21 May - Erich Mielke, German politician
- 22 May - Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist
- 21 August - Gustav Scholz, German boxer
- 2 September - Heinz Harmel, German SS officer
- 6 September - Fritz Ruchay, German football player and manager
- 29 September – Walter Dieminger, German space scientist
- 2 October - Harald Wust, German general
- 20 October - Klaus Winter, German judge
- 15 October – Konrad Emil Bloch, biochemist
- 21 November Harald Leipnitz, German actor
- 12 December - Götz Friedrich, German opera and theatre director.
- 13 December -Erhard Krack, German politician
- 27 December - Mark Brandis, journalist and science fiction author