2018 in Germany

Events in the year 2018 in Germany.

Incumbents

In January 2018, American company Energizer takes control over German company VARTA.
9 January - The Church of St. Lambertus in Immerath is demolished.

7 March - Murder of Keira Gross: 14-year-old Keira Gross is stabbed to death in Berlin.
14 March - The Fourth Merkel cabinet led by Angela Merkel is sworn in.

7 April - 2018 Münster attack - a man crashes into a restaurant in Münster, killing four and wounding twenty before killing himself.
12 April - 2018 Hamburg stabbing attack - an immigrant murders his divorced wife and infant.

22 or 23 May - 14-year-old German Jewish girl Susanna Feldmann is raped and murdered in Viersen

1 June - The state Bavaria pass a Kreuzpflicht Law that requires crosses in all public buildings.
June: German chemical giant Bayer takeover of American company Monsanto
26 June - For the first time the German football team does not reach the knockout stage in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
30 June - German company ThyssenKrupp outsources steel production to a new company, with company seat in Amsterdam. The new company is a fusion of ThyysenKrupp steel production and Indian company Tata Steel.

1 July - Interior minister Horst Seehofer offers to resign after rejecting Chancellor Angela Merkel's EU migration deal.

6–12 August - 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin
30 August - In the city of Chemnitz, 8,000-strong far right protests are held after a German man is killed by an Iraqi and a Syrian asylum seeker.

September - Fusion of German companies Kaufhof and Karstadt
18 September - Hans-Georg Maaßen the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is moved from his role to a role as state secretary in Horst Seehofer ministry. after he caused controversy following the 2018 Chemnitz protests, when Maaßen questioned whether there was any credible evidence for such "hunts", and stated that his security agency had in fact not seen any such evidence.

14 October - At least three people die and eight are injured when a small plane crashes into a crowd in Fulda.
14 October - After Bavarian state election, 2018 the party CSU forms a new government with party Free Voters of Bavaria.
28 October - Hessian state election, 2018

2 November - The German state of Hesse scraps the death penalty provision from Hesse's state constitution by popular vote, with 83% of the votes in favor.
30 November - German company Jack Wolfskin is sold to American company Callaway Golf Company
November - German company HSH Nordbank is sold to American private equity companies like Cerberus Capital Management and J.C. Flowers & Co.

7 December - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeds Angela Merkel as the new chairperson of the Christian Democratic Union, one of the major political parties in Germany.

7 April - Peter Grünberg, German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
17 April - Karl Rawer, physicist, specialist in radio wave propagation and the ionosphere
19 April - Herbert Pilch, linguist and celtologist
25 April - Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines
26 April - Wolfgang Zapf, sociologe

3 September:
* Klaus Gerwien, German footballer
* Maria Beig, German author
7 September - Hans Oleak, German astrophysicist
9 September - Daniel Küblböck, German singer
September - Rudolf Schieffer, German historian
12 September - Hans Kloss, German artist
14 September - Walter Remmers, German politician
20 September - Conrado Walter, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church in Brazil
22 September - Ottokar Runze, German film director