2010 in Germany

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Events in the year 2010 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

President –
- until 31 May: Horst Köhler
- 31 May-30 June: Jens Böhrnsen
- starting 30 June: Christian Wulff
Chancellor – Angela Merkel

Events

Germany's Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

January 16 – The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security.^[1]
January 22 – A Nuremberg court issues an arrest warrant for former Argentine leader Jorge Rafael Videla, on suspicion of killing a German man.^[2]^[3]
April 4 – Three 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.^[4]
29 May – With the song "Satellite", Germany's Lena wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, the first German victory since 1982.^[5]
June 3 – Christian Wulff is nominated for President of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel.^[6]
June 25 – Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images.^[7]
July 4 – In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants.^[8]
July 7 – Spain defeats Germany 1-0 to win its semi-final and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.^[9]
July 10 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3-2 to finish third.^[10]
July 12 – At least eight people are injured after a tornado strikes the German island of Duene in the North Sea.^[11]
July 24 – A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 20 people and injures dozens more people.
August 16 – Nadja Benaissa, a HIV-positive former singer in the German girl band No Angels, goes on trial for allegedly not advising sexual partners of her condition.^[12]
August 26 – 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.^[13]
September 21–26 – photokina in Cologne
September 28 – Germany's £22billion World War I debt is finally paid off after more than 90 years.^[14]
October 3 – Germany celebrates 20 years of unification.^[15] The government pays its last World War I reparations.
October 26 – The number of unemployed in Germany drops first time since 1991 below three million.^[16]
November 1 – 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.

Anti-Atomkraft-Demonstration in Wendland (2010)

Freya von Moltke
Photo: Dorothea von Haeften

November 9 – Demonstrations in Wendland near Gorleben against CASTOR-transport.^[17]
November 29 – Break of coalition in Hamburg between parties of Green and CDU^[18]
December – Offenbach: Deutsche Wetterdienst says December was coldest December month since 1969 in Germany.^[19]

Sports

8 August: Ellen van Dijk wins the 2010 Sparkassen Giro

Deaths

January 1 – Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.
January 1 – Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.
January 4 – Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.
January 9 – Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.
January 9 – Diether Posser, 87, German politician.
January 14 – Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.
January 14 – Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.
January 15 – Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.
January 18 – Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.
January 30 – Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. (German)
January 31 – Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.
February 10 – Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host.
February 12 – Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer.
February 14 – Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian.
February 16 – Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.
February 17 – Ines Paulke, 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide.
February 18 – Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.
February 23 – Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.
February 23 – Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.
February 27 – David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.
March 5 – Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace.
March 12 – Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician.
March 14 – Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist.
March 20 – Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor.
March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes.
March 22 – Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer.
March 25 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.
March 27 – Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.
March 30 – Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace.
March 30 – Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004).
March 30 – Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator.
April 3 – Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran.
April 4 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic.
April 4 – Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar.
April 5 – Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter.
April 5 – Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress.
April 6 – Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter.
April 8 – Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure.
April 9 – Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness.
April 10 – Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar.
April 10 – Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness.
April 11 – Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness.
April 11 – Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach.
April 11 – Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness.
April 11 – Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure.
April 11 – Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician.
April 12 – Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease.
April 12 – Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure.
April 12 – Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness.
April 14 – Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia.
April 15 – Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia.
April 17 – Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran.
April 17 – Axel Weishaupt, 64, German diplomat, ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007–2010), heart failure.
April 21 – Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure.
April 24 – Leo Löwenstein, 43, German racing driver, race accident.
April 24 – Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure.
April 30 – Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal.
May 3 – Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher.
May 3 – Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke.
May 4 – Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver.
May 5 – Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist.
May 8 – Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor, after long illness.
May 9 – Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter.
May 12 – Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire, choking.
May 12 – Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster.
May 13 – Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer.
May 13 – Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official.
May 15 – Christian Habicht, 57, German actor, heart attack.
May 17 – Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974).
May 17 – Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser.
May 23 – Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor.
May 24 – Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer.
May 29 – Paul Müller, 69, German biologist.
May 30 – Klaus Kandaouroff, 80, German businessman and philanthropist, shot.
June 10 – Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
June 12 – Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite.
June 13 – Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
June 15 – Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.
June 18 – Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945).
June 19 – Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade).
June 21 – Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash.
June 22 – Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
June 22 – Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.
June 23 – Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
June 23 – Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).
June 28 – Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
July 2 – Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist.
July 3 – Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide. (body discovered on this date)
July 3 – Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954
July 12 – Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.
July 22 – Herbert Giersch, 89, German economist.
July 24 – Theo Albrecht, 88, German entrepreneur and billionnaire (Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's).
July 25 – Erich Steidtmann, 95, German Nazi SS officer.
July 30 – Otto Joachim, 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music.
August 5 – Jürgen Oesten, 96, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II.
August 7 – Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander, after long illness.
August 8 – Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian.
August 11 – Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor.
August 18 – Maria Wachter, 100, German communist and resistance fighter, member of VVN. (German)
August 18 – Sepp Daxenberger, 48, German politician, bone marrow cancer. (German)
August 19 – Gerhard Beil, 84, East German politician. (German)
August 21 – Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German film and theatre director, lung cancer.
August 26 – Walter Wolfrum, 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace.
September 7 – Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager.
September 11 – Baerbel Bohley, 65, East German opposition figure & artist.
September 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German nobleman.
September 18 – Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.
October 14 – Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician.
October 21 – Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of Helmut Schmidt.
November 5 – Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
November 6 – Ezard Haußmann,75, German actor.
November 15 – Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Winter sportsman.
November 20 – Heinz Weiss, 89, German actor.
November 20 – Walter Helmut Fritz, 81, German author.
November 26 – Maria Hellwig, 90, German singer.
November 30 – Peter Hofmann, 76, German singer.
December 7 – Armin Weiss, 83, chemist and politician.
December 7 – Arnold Weiss, 86, German-born American soldier.
December 15 – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist.
December 17 – Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster.

2010 in Europe

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2010 in Germany

Incumbents

Federal level

Events

Sports

Deaths

References

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