2016 in Germany
This list details notable events that occurred in 2016 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 1 January – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
- 30–31 January - 2016 FIL World Luge Championships in Königssee
February
- 9 February - Bad Aibling rail accident
- 3–7 February - 2016 German Masters
- 11–21 February - 66th Berlin International Film Festival
- 25 February: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
March
- CeBIT in Hanover
- ITB Berlin in Berlin
- Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
- Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- 13 March: Baden-Württemberg state election, 2016
- 13 March: Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016
- 13 March: Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2016
- Böhmermann affair
April
- Hanover Messe in Hanover
- Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
May
- 10 May: Munich knife attack
- 13 May: Killing of Niklas Pöhler
June
- Kiel Week in Kiel
- 2016 Düsseldorf terrorism plot
- 9-12: 2016 Bilderberg Conference in Dresden
July
- 14–17 July - 2016 Extreme Sailing Series in Hamburg
- 18 July: 2016 Würzburg train attack
- 22 July: 2016 Munich shooting
- 24 July: 2016 Ansbach bombing, 2016 Reutlingen machete attack
August
- Hanse Sail in Rostock
- Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
September
- ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- Gamescom in Cologne
- Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
- 1 September: in the Germany state of Thuringia. Alternative für Deutschland politician Wiebke Muhsal wears a Niqab to the Thuringian Landtag in a protest calling for a ban on the face covering.
- 4 September: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2016
- * The Alternative for Germany, which was previously unrepresented in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gains its first state seats.
- * The far-right National Democratic Party of Germany loses its last state representation.
- 18 September: Berlin state election, 2016
- 28 September: Following a civil trial in Frankfurt, Claudia Dinkel is ordered to pay compensation to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann for her false rape accusations against him in 2010. The court found Dinkel guilty of indirect deprivation of liberty through a knowingly untrue criminal complaint, establishing that her injuries had been self inflicted.
October
- 8 October: 2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot
- Frankfurt Book Fair
- 27 November: Nico Rosberg wins the Championship against his teammate Lewis Hamilton, in Abu Dhabi. A week later, Rosberg announces his retirement, allowing Valtteri Bottas to take his seat for next year.
December
- 19 December: 2016 Berlin truck attack
Deaths
- 1 January: Helmut Koester, American-German scholar of the New Testament
- 4 January:
- * Maja Maranow, German actress
- *Achim Mentzel, German actor
- 9 January: Robert Naegele, German actor
- 10 January: Ulrich Hahnen, German politician
- 12 January: Ruth Leuwerik, German actress
- 27 January: Artur Fischer, German inventor
- 31 January: Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer
- 7 February: Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter
- 23 February: Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books
- 26 February: Karl Dedecius, Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature
- 29 February: Hannes Löhr, German football player
- 18 March: Guido Westerwelle, German politician
- 24 March: Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician
- 31 March: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
- 7 April: Hendrikje Fitz, German actress
- 18 April: Fritz Herkenrath, German football goalkeeper
- 19 April: Karl-Heinz von Hassel, German actor
- 21 April: Hans Koschnick, German politician
- 24 April: Klaus Siebert, German biathlete
- 28 April: Georg Kronawitter, German politician
- 30 April: Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor
- 6 May: Margot Honecker, German politician
- 6 May: Klaus Ampler, German cyclist
- 9 May: Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician
- 11 May: Peter Behrens, German musician
- 15 May: Erika Berger, German television moderator
- 18 May: Fritz Stern, German-American historian
- 31 May: Rupert Neudeck, German journalist
- 11 June: Rudi Altig, German cyclist
- 19 June: Götz George, German actor
- 7 July: Wolfram Siebeck, German author and journalist
- 12 July: Miriam Pielhau, German actress and author
- 14 August: Hermann Kant, German author
- 24 August: Walter Scheel, German politician, former president
- 24 August: Henning Voscherau, German politician
- 10 September: Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist
- 14 September: Hilmar Thate, German actor
- 10 October: Tamme Hanken, German horse whisperer and animals bonesetter
- 21 October : Manfred Krug, German actor
- 24 October : Reinhard Häfner, German footballer
- 26 November : Peter Hintze, German politician
- 2 December : Gisela May, German actress and singer
- 7 December: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
- 27 December: Hans Tietmeyer, German economist