2019 in Germany

The following is a list of events from the year 2019 in Germany.

Incumbents

29 December 2018 to 6 January – The 2018–2019 Four Hills Tournament
22 January - Signing of the Aachen Treaty in Aachen, 56 years to the day after the signing of the Élysée Treaty
26 January - The Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment by the German government recommends Germany to entirely phase out and shut down coal-fired plants on its territory by 2038.

7 to 17 February – The annual 69th Berlin International Film Festival takes place, with French actress Juliette Binoche as the Jury President. The Golden Bear is awarded to Israeli-French film Synonyms, directed by Nadav Lapid.
21 February – A German court fines two ex-employers of German gun maker Heckler & Koch for illegal gun sales to Mexico.

2 June – Murder of Walter Lübcke, a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany who is found shot in the head at close range on the terrace of his residence.

1 September
*2019 [Brandenburg state election]: The SPD declines 5.7% with 26.2% of the vote and AfD becomes the second largest party in Brandenburg with 23.5%.
*2019 Saxony state election: The CDU declines 7.3% with 32.1% of the vote and AfD becomes the second largest party in Saxony with 27.5%.
5 September – The National Democratic Party of Germany Stefan Jagsch becomes the Mayor of the Waldsiedlung. The unanimous election of the NPD politician in the local council shocks other parties including Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, the center-left Social Democrats, and the liberal Free Democratic Party, whose local council members voted for Jagsch.

9 October – Halle synagogue shooting
27 October – 2019 Thuringian state election: The Die Linke wins the election with 31.0% of the vote, the AfD becomes the second largest party in Thuringia with 23.4% of the vote.

1 February – Ursula Karusseit, actress
2 February – William Davis, German-born British journalist
4 February
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* Leonie Ossowski, writer
6 February
* Rudi Assauer, football player and coach
* Manfred Eigen, biophysical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
7 February
* Heidi Mohr, footballer
* Jörg Schönbohm, military officer and politician, Inspector of the Army, and Deputy Minister President of Brandenburg
8 February
* Seweryn Bialer, German-born American political scientist
* Kurt Sommerlatt, football player and manager.
9 February – Katharina Lindner, German-born Scottish footballer
10 February
* Heinz Fütterer, sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist
* Maximilian Reinelt, rower, Olympic champion and silver medalist
12 February
* Rolf Böhme, politician
* Christoph Broelsch, surgeon
* Georg Jann, organ builder
15 February – Erika Simon, archaeologist
16 February – Bruno Ganz, German-speaking Swiss actor
19 February – Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer
20 February
* Peter Rüchel, music journalist and founder of Rockpalast
* Ekkehard Wlaschiha, operatic baritone, Grammy winner
21 February – Hilde Zadek, soprano
24 February – Lothar Zenetti, theologian
25 February – Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, judge
28 February – André Previn, German-born American composer

2 March – Arnulf Baring, German lawyer, historian, journalist and political scientist
4 March – Klaus Kinkel, German civil servant, lawyer, and politician
13 March – Andrea Pollack, German butterfly swimmer
15 March – Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator