2018 in Germany
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Events in the year 2018 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
Demolition of the Church of St. Lambertus on 9 January
- In January 2018, American company Energizer takes control over German company VARTA.[1]
- January 9 - The Church of St. Lambertus in Immerath is demolished.
- February 15–25 - 68th Berlin International Film Festival
- February 22 - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
- March 14 - The Fourth Merkel cabinet led by Angela Merkel was sworn in.
- June: German chemical giant Bayer takeover of American company Monsanto
- June 26 - In a historical disaster German football team loses in 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- June 30 - German company ThyssenKrupp outsourced his steal production to a new company with company seat in Amsterdam. The new companys is a fusion of ThyysenKrupp steal production and Indian company Tata Steel.
- July 1 - Interior minister Horst Seehofer offers to resign after rejecting Chancellor Angela Merkel's EU migration deal.[2][3][4]
- August 6–12 - 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin
- August 30 - In the city of Chemnitz a 8,000-strong far right Protests are held. after a German man was killed by an Iraqi and a Syrian asylum seeker.[5]
- September 18 - Hans-Georg Maaßen the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is moved from his role to a role as state secretary in Horst Seehofer ministry. after he caused controversy following the 2018 Chemnitz protests,when Maaßen questioned whether there was any credible evidence for such "hunts", and stated that his security agency had in fact not seen any such evidence.[6][7]
- 14 October - At least 3 people died and 8 were injured when a small plane crashed into a crowd in Fulda.[8]
Deaths
- 2 January – Michael Pfeiffer, professional football player and manager (born 1925).[9]
- 4 January – Philipp Jenninger, politician (born 1932)
- 5 January – Hans Werner Kettenbach, writer (born 1928)
- 10 January – Leopold Ahlsen, writer and playwright (born 1927).[10]
- 12 January – Heinrich von Stietencron, indiologist (born 1933)
- 15 January – Karl-Heinz Kunde, cyclist (born 1938)
- 30 January – Rolf Schafstall, footballer (born 1937)
- 3 February – Rolf Zacher, actor (born 1941)
- 14 February – Anton Regh, footballer (born 1940)
- 20 February - Herbert Ehrenberg, politician (born 1926)
- 10 March - Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (born 1966)
- 11 March – Lorenz Dittmann, art historian (born 1928)
- 11 March – Karl Lehmann, Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz (born 1936)
- 7 April - Peter Grünberg, German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (born 1939)
- 17 April – Karl Rawer, physicist, specialist in radio wave propagation and the ionosphere (born 1913)
- 19 April – Herbert Pilch, linguist and celtologist (born 1927)
- 25 April - Hans Dresig, Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines (born 1937)
- 26 April - Wolfgang Zapf, sociologe (born 1937)
- 1 May – Elmar Altvater, political scientist (born 1938)
- 2 May - Harald Range, German lawyer (born 1948)
- 2 May - Wolfgang Völz, actor (born 1930)
- 20 May – Dieter Schnebel, composer (born 1930)
- 20 May - Roland Vogt, politician (born 1941)
- May - Jürgen Marcus, singer (born 1948)
- 9 June - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (born 1913)
- 15 June - Enoch zu Guttenberg, conductor (born 1946).[11]
- 18 June - Paul Gratzik, German poet and novelist (born 1935)
- 29 June - Franz Beyer, German musicologist (born 1922)
- 9 July - Hans Günter Winkler, showjumper (born 1926)
- 14 July - Christa Dichgans, painter (born 1940).[12]
- 24 July - Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg, German nobleman and musician (born 1933)
- 24 July - Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (born 1926)
- 1 August - Rotraut Wisskirchen, biblical archaeologist and academic (b. 1936).[13]
- 23 August - Dieter Thomas Heck, German television moderator (born 1937)
- 26 August - Inge Borkh, German soprano (born 1921)
- 3 September - Klaus Gerwien, German footballer (born 1940)
- 7 September - Hans Oleak, German astrophyscist (born 1930)
- 9 September - Daniel Küblböck, German singer (born 1985)
- September - Rudolf Schieffer, German historian (born 1947)
- 12 September - Hans Klose, German artist (born 1938)
- 14 September - Walter Remmers, German politician (born 1933)
- 20 September - Conrado Walter, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church in Brazil (born 1923)
- 22 September - Ottokar Runze, German film director (born 1925)
- 4 October - Kurt Malangré, German politician (born 1934)
See also
- 2018 in German television
References
- ↑ Manager Magazin.de: Energizer übernimmt Varta-Batterien (german)
- ↑ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/merkel-coalition-crisis-seehofer-offers-quit-migration-180702052457364.html
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44674945
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/01/merkel-fights-to-save-coalition-from-division-over-migration
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/europe/germany-neo-nazi-protests-chemnitz.html
- ↑ "German security chief called to explain claims about far-right videos". September 11, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
- ↑ "Chemnitz unrest: German top spy Maassen forced out". September 18, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45858270
- ↑ "Alemannia-Legende Michel Pfeiffer im Alter von 92 Jahren gestorben". aachener-nachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ↑ Münchner Schriftsteller Leopold Ahlsen gestorben (in German)
- ↑ Enoch zu Guttenberg tot (in German)
- ↑ Malerin Christa Dichgans gestorben (in German)
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Rotraut Wisskirchen (in German)
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