2014 in Germany

The following is a list of events from the year 2014 in Germany.

• President: Joachim Gauck
• Chancellor: Angela Merkel

• Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann
• Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer
• Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit
• Minister-President of Brandenburg – Dietmar Woidke
• Mayor of Bremen – Jens Boehrnsen
• Mayor of Hamburg – Olaf Scholz
• Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering
• Minister-President of Niedersachsen – Stephan Weil
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Malu Dreyer
• Minister-President of Saarland – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
• Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich
• Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Reiner Haseloff
• Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Torsten Albig
• Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht

• January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich
• January – German Snooker Masters in Berlin^[1]
• 6 January – 100th birthday of German art dealer Heinz Berggruen
• 28–1 January – 200th deathday of German king Karl der Große
• 29 January – 200th deathday of German philosoph Johann Gottlieb Fichte

• 6–16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
• February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014^[2]

• March – CeBIT in Hanover
• March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
• March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
• 7 March – 300th year of Treaty of Rastatt

• April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
• April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin

• 24 May – 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer

• June – Kiel Week in Kiel

• 13 July – The Germany national team becomes world champion in Brazil.
• 18 July
  • 4 Germans are confirmed as among the 300 people on board killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 with 193 Dutch nationals in Eastern Ukraine near Russian border.
  • 26 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships
• 28 July – 100th year of start World War I

• August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
• 13–24 August – 2014 European Aquatics Championships
• 15 August – Reopening of Hildesheim Cathedral after four and a half years of renovation.
• 27 August – 100th birthday of German actress Heidi Kabel
• August–September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

• September – "Shariah Police" incident in Wuppertal, Germany (2014), Hardline Salafist Muslims patrolled the streets of Wuppertal, a city in the west of Germany, to "influence and recruit young people", according to local police.^[3] Dressed in bright orange reflective vests with "Shariah Police" printed on the back, the male patrollers loitered around discotheques and gambling houses, telling passers-by to refrain from gambling and alcohol. Wuppertal's police have pressed charges.^[4]
• September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
• September – Gamescom in Cologne
• September – photokina 2014 in Cologne
• September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
• 26 September – 100th deathday of German painter August Macke
• September – October – Oktoberfest in Munich

• October – Frankfurt Book Fair

• 5 November – 600th year of start of Council of Constance

• 2 January
  • Thomas Kurzhals, 60, German composer (b. 1953)
  • Dirk Sager, 73, German journalist (b. 1940)
• 9 January – Winfried Hassemer, 74, German criminal law scholar (b. 1940)
• 22 January – Fred Bertelmann, 88, German singer (b. 1925)
• 31 January – Gundi Busch, 78, German figure skater (b. 1935)

• 2 February – Gerd Albrecht, 78, German conductor (b. 1935)
• 4 February – Hubert Luthe, 86, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (b. 1927)
• 6 February – Peter Philipp, 42, German writer and comedian (b. 1971)^[5]
• 17 February – Peter Florin, 92, German politician and diplomat (b. 1921)
• 18 February – Bernd Noske, 67, German singer and drummer (b. 1946)
• 24 February – Günter Reisch, 86, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 25 February – Wilfried Brauer, 76, German computer scientist (b. 1937)

• 1 March – Eckart Höfling, 77, German Roman Catholic priest in Brazil (b. 1936)
• 7 March – Heiko Bellmann, 63, German biologist and zoologist (b. 1950)
• 9 March – Justus Pfaue, 72, German author and director (b. 1942)
• 14 March – Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director (b. 1929)
• 17 March – Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress (b. 1954)

• 3 April – Michael Prinz von Preußen, 74, German writer and royalty (b. 1940)
• 4 April – Klaus Meyer, 76, German footballer (b. 1937)
• 8 April
  • Herbert Schoen, 84, German footballer (b. 1929)
  • Karlheinz Deschner, 89, German writer (b. 1924)
• 11 April
  • Helga Mees, 76, German fencer (b. 1937)
  • Eduard Gaugler, 85, German economist (b. 1928)
• 21 April – Ilse von Bredow, 91, German writer (b. 1922)
• 22 April – Werner Potzernheim, 87, German cyclist (b. 1927)
• 25 April – Stefanie Zweig, 81, German writer (b. 1932)^[6]
• 26 April – Adolf Seilacher, 89, German palaeontologist (b. 1925)

• 1 May
  • Heinz Schenk, 89, German television presenter (b. 1924)
  • Georg Stollenwerk, 83, German footballer and trainer (b. 1930)
• 6 May – Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, German art collector (b. 1932)
• 14 May – Wolfgang Heyl, politician (b. 1921)
• 16 May – Rolf Boysen, 94, German actor (b. 1920)
• 23 May – Richard Kolitsch, 24, German footballer (b. 1989)
• 30 May – Michael Szameit, 63, German writer (b. 1950)

• 4 June – Kurt Conradi, 89, German actor (b. 1924)
• 6 June – Hermann Bahlsen, 86, German manager (b. 1927)
• 9 June – Reinhard Höppner, 65, German politician (b. 1948)
• 12 June – Frank Schirrmacher, 54, German journalist and essayist (b. 1959)
• 21 June – Johannes Strassmann, 29, German poker player (b. 1985)
• 22 June – Werner Biskup, 72, German football player (b. 1942)
• 28 June – Peter Klose, 60, German politician (b. 1953)

• 5 July – Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian (b. 1931)
• 7 July – Horst Bollmann, German actor (b. 1925)
• 14 July – Karl Düsterberg, 97, German manager (b. 1917)
• 15 July – Edda Buding, 77, German tennis player (b. 1936)
• 16 July – Karl Albrecht, 94, German manager (b. 1920)
• 21 July – Hans-Peter Kaul, 70, German judge (b. 1943)
• 30 July – Harun Farocki, 70, German film director (b. 1944)

• 1 August – Gert von Paczensky, 88, German journalist (b. 1925)
• 2 August – Otmar Hornbach, 84, German manager (b. 1930)
• 5 August – Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer (b. 1910)
• 10 August – Günter Junghans, 73, German actor (b. 1941)
• 15 August – Hermann Weber, 92, German historian (b. 1928)
• 16 August – Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, German journalist (b. 1924)
• 20 August
  • Klaus Zapf, 62, German manager (b. 1952)
  • Gert Schaefer, 58, German actor (b. 1955)
• 21 August – Werner Liersch, 81, German writer (b. 1932)
• 24 August – Walter Pradt, 65, German football player (b. 1949)
• 25 August – Karl Ganzhorn, 93, German physicist (b. 1921)
• 27 August – Benno Pludra, 88, German writer (b. 1925)

• 1 September – Gottfried John, 72, German actor (b. 1942)
• 4 September – Wolfhart Pannenberg, 85, German theologian (b. 1928)
• 11 September – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television moderator (b. 1927)
• 20 September – Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1923)

• 3 October – Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor (b. 1940)
• 7 October – Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer (b. 1926)

• 1 November – Klaus Bölling, 86, German publisher (b. 1928)
• 8 November – Hannes Hegen, 89, German cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 13 November – Alexander Grothendieck, 86, German-born mathematician (b. 1928)
• 19 November – Mike Nichols, 83, German-born American director (b. 1931)

• 9 December – Karl Otto Pöhl, 85, German economist (b. 1929)
• 10 December – Ralph Giordano, 89, German writer (b. 1923)
• 13 December – Ernst Albrecht, 84, German politician (b. 1930)
• 14 December – Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil, German politician (b. 1933)
• 22 December – Fritz Sdunek, 67, German boxing trainer and amateur boxer (b. 1947)
• 29 December – André Wohllebe, German canoeist(b. 1962)
• 30 December – Luise Rainer, 104, German born actress (b. 1910)

• 2014 in German television