2010 in Germany
The following is a list of events from the year 2010 in Germany.
Incumbents
Federal level
- President:
- *Horst Köhler
- *Jens Böhrnsen
- *Christian Wulff
- Chancellor of [Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]: Angela Merkel
Events
- 16 January – The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security.
- 22 January – A Nuremberg court issues an arrest warrant for former Argentine leader Jorge Rafael Videla, on suspicion of killing a German man.
- 11–21 February – 60th Berlin International Film Festival
- 13 February – More than 10,000 2010 [Dresden anti-fascist blockade|anti-fascist protesters] successfully block a planned neo-Nazi march in Dresden.
- 4 April – Three 4 April 2010 [Baghdad bombings|car bombs hit] the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people.
- 29 May – With the song "Satellite", Germany's Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, the first German victory since 1982.
- 25 June – Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images.
- 30 June — Christian Wulff is elected President of Germany.
- 4 July – In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants.
- 7 July – Spain defeats Germany 1–0 to win its 2010 [FIFA World Cup knockout stage|semi-final] and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.
- 10 July – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3–2 to finish third.
- 12 July – At least eight people are injured after a tornado strikes the German island of Duene in the North Sea.
- 24 July – A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 20 people and injures dozens more people.
- 8 August – Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk wins the 2010 Sparkassen Giro.
- 26 August – German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition.
- 21–26 September – photokina in Cologne
- 3 October
- * Germany celebrates 20 years of unification.
- * The German government pays its last World War I reparations.
- 21 October – Freck Langsam, German no-budget Gangster Comedy film is released.
- 26 October – The number of unemployed in Germany drops first time since 1991 below three million.
- 1 November – German identity cards are issued in the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 format and contain RFID chips with personally identifiable information including a biometric Photo and, if desired, two fingerprints.
- 9 November – Demonstrations in Wendland near Gorleben against CASTOR-transport.
- 29 November – Break of coalition in Hamburg between the Green and CDU parties.
- December – The German Meteorological Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst, says December was the coldest December month since 1969 in Germany.
Deaths
January
- 1 January
- * Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor
- * Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter
- 4 January – Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist
- 9 January
- * Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF
- * Diether Posser, 87, German politician
- 14 January
- * Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author
- * Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956
- 15 January – Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer
- 18 January – Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete
- 30 January – Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist
- 31 January – Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent
February
- 10 February – Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host
- 12 February – Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer
- 14 February – Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian
- 16 February – Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert
- 17 February – Ines Paulke, 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide
- 18 February – Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer
- 21 February – Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German politician
- 23 February
- * Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer,
- * Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction
- 27 February – David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar
March
- 5 March – Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace
- 12 March – Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician
- 14 March – Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist
- 20 March – Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor
- 21 March – Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director
- 22 March – Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer
- 25 March – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist
- 27 March – Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician
- 30 March
- * Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace
- * Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim
- * Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator
- 31 March – Ludwig Martin, German lawyer
April
- 3 April – Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran
- 4 April
- * Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic
- * Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar
- 5 April
- * Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter
- * Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress
- 6 April – Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter
- 8 April – Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor
- 9 April – Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist
- 10 April
- * Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar
- * Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer
- 11 April
- * Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician
- * Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach
- * Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician
- * Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer
- * Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician
- 12 April
- * Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian
- * Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach
- * Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director
- 14 April – Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician
- 15 April – Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer
- 17 April – Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran
- 21 April – Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure
- 24 April
- * Leo Löwenstein, 43, German racing driver
- * Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi army corporal
- 30 April – Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal
May
- 3 May
- * Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher
- * Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer
- 4 May – Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver
- 5 May – Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist
- 8 May – Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor
- 9 May – Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter
- 12 May
- * Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire
- * Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster
- 13 May
- * Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer
- * Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official
- 15 May – Christian Habicht, 57, German actor
- 17 May
- * Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education
- * Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser
- 23 May – Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor
- 24 May – Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer
- 29 May – Paul Müller, 69, German biologist
June
- 10 June – Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer
- 12 June – Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite
- 13 June – Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- 15 June – Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress
- 18 June – Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS
- 19 June – Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress
- 21 June – Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager
- 22 June
- * Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose
- * Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer
- 23 June
- * Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager
- * Frank Giering, 38, German actor
- 28 June
- * Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player
- * Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate
July
- 2 July – Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist
- 3 July – Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954
- 12 July – Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect
- 22 July – Herbert Giersch, 89, German economist
- 24 July – Theo Albrecht, 88, German entrepreneur and billionaire
- 25 July – Erich Steidtmann, 95, German Nazi SS officer
- 30 July – Otto Joachim, 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music
August
- 5 August – Jürgen Oesten, 96, German U-boat commander during World War II
- 7 August – Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander
- 8 August – Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian
- 11 August – Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor
- 12 August – Manfred Homberg, German boxer
- 18 August
- * Maria Wachter, 100, German communist and resistance fighter, member of Union of Persecutees of the [Nazi Regime|VVN]
- * Sepp Daxenberger, 48, German politician
- 19 August – Gerhard Beil, 84, East German politician
- 21 August – Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German film and theatre director
- 26 August – Walter Wolfrum, 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace
September
- 7 September – Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager
- 11 September – Baerbel Bohley, 65, East German opposition figure & artist
- 16 September – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German nobleman
- 18 September – Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician
October
- 14 October – Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician
- 21 October – Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of Helmut Schmidt
November
- 5 November – Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot
- 6 November – Ezard Haußmann, 75, German actor
- 15 November – Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Winter sportsman
- 20 November
- * Walter Helmut Fritz, German author
- * Heinz Weiss, German actor
- 26 November – Maria Hellwig, 90, German singer
- 30 November – Peter Hofmann, 76, German singer
December
- 7 December
- * Armin Weiss, 83, chemist and politician
- * Arnold Weiss, 86, German-born American soldier
- 15 December – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist
- 17 December – Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster
- 20 December - Katharina Szelinski-Singer, 92, German sculptor