List of political scandals in Germany
This is a list of major political scandals in Germany:
1950s
1960s
- Lockheed bribery scandals
- Fibag scandal
- Spiegel affair
- German rocket experts in Egypt scandal
- HS.30 scandal
1970s
- "Radikalenerlass" or Berufsverbot
- Steiner-Wienand scandal
- Guillaume affair
- Stammheim wiretapping scandal
- Frankfurt SPD donation scandal
- Rudel Scandal
- Schmücker trial
- Filbinger scandal
1980s
- CDU secret party donations scandal : "Flick affair"
- General Günter Kießling's supposed closet homosexuality
- U-Boat plans scandal, planned submarine sales to Apartheid South Africa
- Waterkantgate, scandal around Uwe Barschel, carrying on past his mysterious death
1990s
- Putnik deal
- Dream boat scandal
- Weapons scandal, Israeli inspection and acquisition of East German military hardware scandal,
- Amigo affair, bribe-scandal forcing the Bavarian prime minister Max Streibl to resign in 1993
- Treuhand
- Drawer scandal
- Work villa scandal
- Plutonium affair
- CDU donations scandal
2000s
- Berlin banking scandal
- Mediation scandal
- Dachau vote fraud
- Bonus miles scandal
- Munich CSU scandal
- QMF scandal
- RWE payments scandal
- German Visa Affair (2005)
- BND surveillance of journalists scandal
- Sachsensumpf
- Deutsche Telekom surveillance scandal
- Libya scandal
2010s
- Guido Westerwelle's WikiLeaks controversy (2011)
- Guttenberg plagiarism scandal
- Causa Wulff
- Bavaria nepotism scandal
- Stendal vote fraud
- Böhmermann affair
- Montblanc scandal
- Asylum office scandal
- Alternative for Germany donation scandal