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Events in the year 2010 in Germany.

1 Incumbents
- 1.1 Federal level
2 Events
3 Deaths
4 References
5 See also

Incumbents

Federal level

President – Horst Köhler until 31 May, Christian Wulff
Chancellor – Angela Merkel

Events

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]
May 29 – 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 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]
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.

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]

Deaths

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

Contents

Incumbents

Federal level

Events

Deaths

References

See also