2010 in Germany

Events in the year 2010 in Germany.

Incumbents

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]
• February 11-21 - 60th Berlin International Film Festival
• 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

Hanna-Renate Laurien

Werner Schroeter

Heidi Kabel

Sepp Daxenberger

Loki Schmidt

• 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.^[20] (born 1918)
• January 1 – Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.^[21](born 1911)
• January 4 – Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.^[22] (born 1927)
• January 9 – Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. ^[23] (born 1945)
• January 9 – Diether Posser, 87, German politician. ^[24] (born 1922)
• January 14 – Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.^[25] (born 1941)
• January 14 – Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. ^[26] (born 1933)
• January 15 – Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.^[27] (born 1952)
• January 18 – Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. ^[28] (born 1942)
• January 30 – Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.^[29] (born 1912)
• January 31 – Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.^[30] (born 1919)
• February 10 – Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host. ^[31] (born 1943)
• February 12 – Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer. ^[32] (born 1940)
• February 14 – Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian. ^[33] (born 1897)
• February 16 – Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert. ^[34] (born 1914)
• February 17 – Ines Paulke, 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide.^[35] (born 1958)
• February 18 – Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer. ^[36] (born 1921)
• February 23 – Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer. ^[37] (born 1946)
• February 23 – Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction. ^[38] (born 1919)
• February 27 – David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.^[39] (born 1947)
• March 5 – Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace.^[40] (born 1913)
• March 12 – Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician.^[41] (born 1928)
• March 14 – Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. ^[42] (born 1932)
• March 20 – Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor. ^[43] (born 1919)
• March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. ^[44] (born 1919)
• March 22 – Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer.^[45] (born 1938)
• March 25 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.^[46] (born 1916)
• March 27 – Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician ^[47] (born 1935)
• March 30 – Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace.^[48] (born 1923)
• March 30 – Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004).^[49] (born 1983)
• March 30 – Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. ^[50] (born 1911)
• March 31 - Ludwig Martin, German lawyer (born 1909)
• April 3 – Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran.^[51] (born 1925)
• April 4 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic.^[52] (born 1922)
• April 4 – Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar.^[53] (born 1939)
• April 5 – Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter.^[54] (born 1928)
• April 5 – Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress.^[55] (born 1922)
• April 6 – Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter.^[56] (born 1931)
• April 8 – Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure.^[57] (born 1952)
• April 9 – Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness.^[58] (born 1932)
• April 10 – Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar.^[59] (born 1922)
• April 10 – Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness.^[60] (born 1940)
• April 11 – Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness.^[61] (born 1930)
• April 11 – Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach.^[62] (born 1923)
• April 11 – Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness.^[63] (born 1944)
• April 11 – Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure.^[64] (born 1948)
• April 11 – Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician.^[65] (born 1925)
• April 12 – Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease. ^[66] (born 1933)
• April 12 – Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure.^[67] (born 1970)
• April 12 – Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness.^[68](born 1945)
• April 14 – Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia. ^[69] (born 1963)
• April 15 – Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia.^[70] (born 1955)
• April 17 – Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran.^[71] (born 1922)
• April 17 – Axel Weishaupt, 64, German diplomat, ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007–2010), heart failure. ^[72] (born 1945)
• April 21 – Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure.^[73] (born 1942)
• April 24 – Leo Löwenstein, 43, German racing driver, race accident.^[74] (born 1966)
• April 24 – Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure.^[75] (born 1921)
• April 30 – Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal. ^[76] (born 1911)
• May 3 – Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher.^[77] (born 1924)
• May 3 – Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke. ^[78] (born 1923)
• May 4 – Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver ^[79] (born 1932)
• May 5 – Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist.^[80] (born 1931)
• May 8 – Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor, after long illness. ^[81] (born 1926)
• May 9 – Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter. ^[82] (born 1924)
• May 12 – Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire, choking.^[83] (born 1938)
• May 12 – Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster.^[84] (born 1921)
• May 13 – Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer.^[85] (born 1919)
• May 13 – Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official.^[86] (born 1934)
• May 15 – Christian Habicht, 57, German actor, heart attack.^[87] (born 1952)
• May 17 – Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974). ^[88] (born 1924)
• May 17 – Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser. ^[89] (born 1912)
• May 23 – Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor.^[90] (born 1902)
• May 24 – Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer.^[91] (born 1924)
• May 29 – Paul Müller, 69, German biologist.^[92] (born 1940)
• May 30 – Klaus Kandaouroff, 80, German businessman and philanthropist, shot. ^[93] (born 1930)
• June 10 – Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer. ^[94] (born 1941)
• June 12 – Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite. ^[95] (born 1913)
• June 13 – Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ^[96] (born 1924)
• June 15 – Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.^[97] (born 1914)
• June 18 – Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945).^[98] (born 1916)
• June 19 – Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade). ^[99] (born 1924)
• June 21 – Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash.^[100] (born 1947)
• June 22 – Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose. ^[101] (born 1918)
• June 22 – Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.^[102] (born 1941)
• June 23 – Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer. ^[103] (born 1944)
• June 23 – Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).^[104] (born 1971)
• June 28 – Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack. ^[105] (born 1958)
• July 2 – Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist.^[106] (born 1926)
• July 3 – Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide. ^[107] (body discovered on this date) (born 1961)
• July 3 – Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954^[108] (born 1930)
• July 12 – Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect. ^[109] (born 1922)
• July 22 – Herbert Giersch, 89, German economist. (born 1921) ^[110]
• July 24 – Theo Albrecht, 88, German entrepreneur and billionnaire (Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's).^[111] (born 1922)
• July 25 – Erich Steidtmann, 95, German Nazi SS officer. ^[112] (born 1914)
• July 30 – Otto Joachim, 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music. ^[113] (born 1910)
• August 5 – Jürgen Oesten, 96, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II. ^[114] (born 1913)
• August 7 – Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander, after long illness.^[115] (born 1917)
• August 8 – Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian. ^[116] (born 1927)
• August 11 – Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor.^[117] (born 1932)
• August 12 - Manfred Homberg, German boxer (born 1933)
• August 18 – Maria Wachter, 100, German communist and resistance fighter, member of VVN. ^[118] (born 1910)
• August 18 – Sepp Daxenberger, 48, German politician, bone marrow cancer.^[119] (born 1962)
• August 19 – Gerhard Beil, 84, East German politician.^[120] (born 1926)
• August 21 – Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German film and theatre director, lung cancer.^[121] (born 1960)
• August 26 – Walter Wolfrum, 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace.^[122] (born 1923)
• September 7 – Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager (born 1926)
• September 11 – Baerbel Bohley, 65, East German opposition figure & artist (born 1945)
• September 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German nobleman (born 1924)
• September 18 – Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician (born 1930)
• October 14 – Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician (born 1944)
• October 21 – Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of Helmut Schmidt. (born 1919)
• November 5 – Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot (born 1913)
• November 6 – Ezard Haußmann,75, German actor (born 1935)
• November 15 – Andreas Kirchner, 57, German Winter sportsman (born 1953)
• November 20:
  • Walter Helmut Fritz, German author (born 1929)
  • Heinz Weiss, German actor (born 1921)
• November 26 – Maria Hellwig, 90, German singer (born 1920)
• November 30 – Peter Hofmann, 76, German singer (born 1944)
• December 7 – Armin Weiss, 83, chemist and politician (born 1927)
• December 7 – Arnold Weiss, 86, German-born American soldier (born 1924)
• December 15 – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist (born 1923)
• December 17 – Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster (born 1952)
• December 20 - Katharina Szelinski-Singer, 92 , German sculptor (born 1918)

See also

• 2010 in German television

References

See also

• Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics