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Events in the year 2012 in Germany
Events in the year 2012 in Germany .
Incumbents
Federal level
Christian Wulff
Joachim Gauck
Angela Merkel
State level
Events
January – June
July – December
3 July –
Heinz Fromm resigns as Head of the
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , following controversies over the organisation's handling of the far-right.
early July – Success for German players in the
Wimbledon
tennis Singles: In the Men's section,
Florian Mayer and
Philipp Kohlschreiber reach the quarter-finals; in the Women's section,
Sabine Lisicki reaches the quarter-finals, and
Angelique Kerber reaches the semi-finals.
13 July –
FIFA President
Sepp Blatter alleges that there were irregularities when Germany won the right to host the
2006 FIFA World Cup .
31 July -
Germany wins its first
Gold Medals of the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London , in the
Equestrian sport, taking team gold, and with
Michael Jung taking individual gold.
9–12 August –
Hanse Sail in
Rostock
31 August – 5 September –
Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
11–16 September –
ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
12 September - The
German Constitutional Court in
Karlsruhe ruled, that the new European bailout fund was inline with the
German constitution .
15–19 September –
Gamescom in
Cologne
18–23 September –
photokina in Cologne
20–27 September –
Frankfurt Motor Show in
Frankfurt
21 September -
JadeWeserPort opened.
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22 September – 7 October –
Oktoberfest in
Munich
28 September - The
SPD selects Peer Steinbruck as its candidate to face
Angela Merkel in the
German federal election, 2013 .
4 October -
Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from
Formula One .
5 October - Footballer
Michael Ballack announces an end to his playing career.
10–14 October –
Frankfurt Book Fair , with special guest
New Zealand .
12 November -
2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in
Frankfurt
25 November - In
Formula One , German driver
Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year.
26 November - A
fire at a workshop for disabled people in Southwestern Germany kills 14 people.
6 December - German officials tried to outlaw the Nationalist
National Democratic Party of Germany , with the interior ministers of all 16 states recommending a ban. The Federal Constitutional Court is yet to vote on the recommendation.
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10 December - An explosive device is found, and made safe, at the main
railway station in
Bonn .
25 December -
Joachim Gauck makes his first
Christmas address as President.
Date unknown: German company
Volkswagen Group acquired Italian company
Ducati and German companies
MAN and
Porsche .
Deaths
January
Vadim Glowna 1941–2012
2 January –
Helmut Müller-Brühl , 78, conductor (born
1933 )
3 January –
Willi Entenmann , 68, footballer and coach (born
1943 )
4 January –
Xaver Unsinn , 82, ice hockey player (born
1929 )
8 January –
Bernhard Schrader , chemist and academic (born
1931 )
10 January –
Kyra T. Inachin , 43, historian (born
1968 )
13 January –
Guido Dessauer , 96, paper engineer and art collector (born
1915 )
17 January –
Julius Meimberg , 95, Luftwaffe flying ace (born
1917 )
18 January –
Georg Lassen , 96, naval officer (born
1915 )
24 January –
Vadim Glowna , 70, actor and film director (born
1941 )
25 January –
Veronica Carstens , 88, former First Lady (born
1923 )
February
Gunther Plaut 1912–2012
1 February –
Lutz Philipp , 71, Olympic athlete (born
1940 )
2 February –
Paul Consbruch , 81, Roman Catholic prelate (born
1930 )
8 February –
Gunther Plaut , 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author (born
1912 )
20 February –
Imanuel Geiss , 81, historian (born
1931 )
25 February –
Louisiana Red , 79, American blues musician (born
1932 )
27 February –
Werner Guballa , 67, Roman Catholic bishop (born
1944 )
March
April
Barbara Buchholz 1959–2012
5 April –
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche , 76, entrepreneur and auto designer (born
1935 )
6 April -
Heinz Kunert , German engineer (born
1927 )
9 April –
Ivan Nagel , 80, theatre director (born
1931 )
10 April –
Barbara Buchholz , 52, musician and composer (born
1959 )
12 April –
Manfred Orzessek , 78, footballer (born
1933 )
18 April –
Fritz Theilen , 84, resistance activist (born
1927 )
20 April –
Peter Carsten , 83, actor (born
1928 )
21 April –
Heinz Jentzsch , 92, racehorse trainer (born
1920 )
May
Günther Kaufmann
3 May –
Felix Werder , 90, German-born Australian composer (born
1922 )
10 May –
Horst Faas , 79, photojournalist (born
1933 )
10 May –
Gunther Kaufmann , 64, actor (born
1947 )
12 May –
Ernst Josef Fittkau , 75, entomologist (born
1927 )
12 May –
Fritz Ursell , 89, German-born British mathematician (born
1923 )
15 May –
Peter Koslowski , 59, philosopher and academic (born
1952 )
15 May –
Arno Lustiger , 88, Polish-born writer and historian of Judaism (born
1922 )
16 May –
Hans Geister , 83, athlete (born
1928 )
18 May –
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , 86, baritone and conductor (born
1925 )
18 May –
Hans-Dieter Lange , 85, television journalist (born
1926 )
19 May -
Gerhard Hetz 69, swimmer (born
1942 )
24 May –
Klaas Carel Faber , 90, Dutch-born war criminal, died in
Ingolstadt (born
1922 )
27 May –
Friedrich Hirzebruch , 84, mathematician (born
1927 )
30 May –
Gerhard Pohl , 74, politician (born
1937 )
June
Karl-Heinz Kammerling 1930–2012
9 June –
Audrey Arno , 70, pop singer (born
1942 )
12 June –
Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen , 94, psychoanalyst (born
1917 )
14 June –
Karl-Heinz Kammerling , 82, academic teacher of pianists (born
1930 )
18 June –
Lina Haag , 105, anti-fascist activist during World War II. (born
1907 )
20 June –
Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Kostritz , 92, nobleman (born
1919 )
24 June –
Gad Beck , 88, Resistance activist and Holocaust survivor (born
1923 )
24 June –
Franz Crass , 84, bass singer (born
1928 )
24 June –
Rudolf Schmid , 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic bishop (born
1914 )
25 June –
Doris Schade , 88, television actress (born
1924 )
27 June –
Ralph Warren Victor Elliott , 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist (born
1921 )
July
Susanne Lothar 1960–2012
10 July –
Fritz Langanke , 92, Waffen SS Lieutenant (born
1919 )
18 July –
Günther Maleuda , 81, politician, President of the
People's Chamber (1989–1990) (born
1931 )
19 July –
Hans Nowak , 74, footballer (born
1937 )
21 July -
Susanne Lothar , 51, actress (born
1960 )
23 July –
Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen , 86, head of the Royal House of Saxony (born
1926 )
27 July -
Carl-Ludwig Wagner , 82, politician, former Minister-President of
Rhineland-Palatinate (born
1930 )
29 July -
Heinz Staab , 86, chemist (born
1926 )
31 July -
Rudolf Kreitlein , 92, football referee (born
1919 )
August
Georg Leber 1920-2012
2 August -
Bernd Meier , 40, footballer (born
1972 )
8 August -
Kurt Maetzig , 101, film director (born
1911 )
19 August -
Hellmut Geissner , 86, scholar (born
1926 )
21 August -
Georg Leber , 91, politician (born
1920 )
24 August -
Georg Feuerstein , 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism (born
1947 )
26 August -
Krzysztof Wilmanski , 72, Polish-born German scientist (born
1940 )
28 August -
Alfred Schmidt , 81, philosopher (born
1931 )
30 August -
Paul Friedrichs , 72, motocross racer (born
1940 )
31 August -
Norbert Walter , 67, economist (born
1944 )
September
October
Dirk Bach 1961-2012
1 October -
Dirk Bach , 51, comedian, actor and television presenter (born
1961 )
4 October -
Erhard Wunderlich , 55, handball player (born
1956 )
6 October -
Albert, Margrave of Meissen , 77, nobleman (born
1934 )
11 October -
Helmut Haller , 73, footballer (born
1939 )
12 October -
Harry Valérien , 88, sports journalist and presenter (born
1923 )
17 October -
Henry Friedlander , 82, German-born American Jewish historian (born
1930 )
27 October -
Hans Werner Henze , 86, composer (born
1926 )
31 October -
Alfons Demming , 84, Roman Catholic prelate (born
1928 )
November
December
Peter Struck 1943-2012
4 December -
Peter Kiesewetter , 67, composer (born
1945 )
7 December -
Berthold Albrecht , 58, businessman (born
1954 )
11 December -
Albert O. Hirschman , 97, German-born American economist (born
1915 )
14 December -
Klaus Koste , 69, gymnast (born
1943 )
16 December -
Axel Anderson , 83, German-born Puerto Rican actor (born
1929 )
19 December -
Peter Struck , 69, politician (born
1943 )
25 December -
Rudolf Muller , 81, Roman Catholic prelate (born
1931 )
27 December -
Jesco von Puttkamer , 79, German-born American aerospace engineer (born
1933 )
28 December -
Emmanuel Scheffer , 88, German-born Israeli football coach (born
1924 )
See also
References
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