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HOW IT WORKS
2013 in Germany
Summary
Events in the year
2013 in Germany
.
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See also:
Other events of 2013
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
Federal level
edit
Angela Merkel
Joachim Gauck
President
:
Joachim Gauck
Chancellor
:
Angela Merkel
State level
edit
Minister-President of
Baden-Wuerttemberg
–
Winfried Kretschmann
Minister-President of
Bavaria
–
Horst Seehofer
Mayor of
Berlin
–
Klaus Wowereit
Minister-President of
Brandenburg
–
Matthias Platzeck
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
–
David McAllister
(until 18 February),
Stephan Weil
Minister-President of
North Rhine-Westphalia
–
Hannelore Kraft
Minister-President of
Rhineland-Palatinate
–
Kurt Beck
(until 16 January),
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
Events
edit
January – June
edit
January –
Bavarian Film Awards
in
Munich
16 January -
Malu Dreyer
becomes Minister-President of
Rhineland-Palatinate
, succeeding
Kurt Beck
, who had served in this position since 1994.
20 January -
Lower Saxony state election, 2013
in
Niedersachsen
30 January -
German Snooker Masters
in
Berlin
7–17 February -
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
9 February - Education minister
Annette Schavan
resigns after having her doctorate removed following a plagiarism scandal.
[1]
[2]
9–19 February –
63rd Berlin International Film Festival
in
Berlin
13 February - The
Europe
-wide
horsemeat
scandal spreads to Germany, as some supermarket products sold as beef are found to contain it.
14 February -
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
-
Cascada
is selected to represent Germany.
March –
CeBIT
in
Hanover
March –
ITB Berlin
in
Berlin
March –
Leipzig Book Fair
in
Leipzig
18 March -200 year anniversary of German poet and playwright
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
March – the Merkel government says it would not try to ban the Nationalist
National Democratic Party of Germany
NPD.
[3]
April –
Hannover Messe
in
Hanover
April –
Deutscher Filmpreis
in Berlin
1–5 May - German Evangelical Church Day 2013 in
Hamburg
18 May -
Cascada
represent Germany at the
Eurovision Song Contest
in
Malmö
,
Sweden
.
22 May - 150 year birthday of
Social Democratic Party of Germany
and in
Leipzig
organisation
Progressive Alliance
was found.
22 May - 200 year anniversary of German composer
Richard Wagner
25 May - German football team
Bayern Munich
win in
London
Champions League
, beating
Borussia Dortmund
2-1
June –
Kiel Week
in
Kiel
June -
Heavy floods
affect primarily the southern and eastern states of (
Bavaria
,
Saxony
and
Thuringia
).
[4]
July – December
edit
August –
Hanse Sail
in
Rostock
August- September –
Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
in Berlin
10 September Olympic fencing champion German
Thomas Bach
elected
President of the International Olympic Committee
to succeed
Jacques Rogge
.
16 September -
Bavaria state election, 2013
in
Bavaria
September –
ILA Berlin Air Show
in Berlin
September –
Gamescom
in
Cologne
September –
Frankfurt Motor Show
in
Frankfurt
September - October –
Oktoberfest
in
Munich
22 September -
German federal election, 2013
22 September -
Hesse state election, 2013
in
Hesse
October –
Frankfurt Book Fair
October/November - In German media and public the
2013 global surveillance disclosures
is on media and politic topic and German people got to know, that the mobile phone of chancellor
Angela Merkel
was hacked by
NSA
since 2002.
3 November -
Referendum on the recommunalization of energy supply in Berlin
7 December -
26th European Film Awards
in
Berlin
17 December - The
Third Merkel cabinet
led by
Angela Merkel
was sworn in.
Deaths
edit
January
edit
Jakob Arjouni
1964-2013
3 January -
Thomas Schäuble
, 64, German politician, complications following a heart attack.
[5]
(born
1948
)
6 January - Gerhard Fieber, 96, animation pioneer, producer and director, natural causes.
[6]
(born
1916
)
9 January -
Werner Altegoer
, 77, businessman and football administrator (born
1935
)
15 January -
Princess Margarita of Baden
, 80, aristocrat (born
1932
)
17 January -
Jakob Arjouni
, 48, writer (born
1964
)
19 January -
Hans Massaquoi
, 86, German-born American journalist and editor (born
1926
)
24 January -
Gottfried Landwehr
, 83, physicist (born
1929
)
February
edit
3 February -
Wolfgang Abraham
, 71, footballer (born
1942
)
7 February -
Jurgen Untermann
, 84, linguist (born
1928
)
8 February -
Dieter Schutte
, 89, publisher (born
1923
)
9 February -
Aki Orr
, 81, German-born Israeli politician and writer (born
1931
)
[7]
13 February -
Stefan Wigger
, 80, actor (born
1932
)
18 February -
Otfried Preußler
, 89,
children's book
author (born
1923
)
18 February -
Otto Beisheim
, 88, manager (born
1924
)
19 February -
Hubert Schieth
, 86, football manager (born
1927
)
22 February -
Wolfgang Sawallisch
, 89, conductor and pianist (born
1923
)
March
edit
Dieter Pfaff
in 2010
3 March:
Johann Eekhoff
(71), economist (born
1941
)
5 March:
Dieter Pfaff
(65), actor (born
1947
)
6 March:
Sabine Bischoff
(54), fencer (born
1958
)
8 March:
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
(90), officer (born
1922
)
11 March:
Martin Adolf Bormann
(82), theologian (born
1930
)
13 March:
Rolf Schult
(85), actor (born
1927
)
20 March:
Nasser El Sonbaty
(47), bodybuilder (born
1965
)
23 March:
Reinhard Lakomy
, German songwriter, composer (born
1946
)
28 March:
Heinz Patzig
, (83) footballer (born
1929
)
April
edit
Ottmar Schreiner
.
6 April:
Ottmar Schreiner
(67), politician (born
1946
)
10 April:
Bernhard Rieger
(90), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (born
1922
)
16 April:
Reinhard Lettmann
(80), bishop of the Roman Catholic Church (born
1933
)
May
edit
Sarah Kirsch
in 1976
5 May:
Sarah Kirsch
: German poet (born
1935
)
12 May:
Gerd Langguth
(66), German author and professor of policial science (born
1946
)
17 May:
Peter Schulz
(81), German politician (born
1930
)
18 May:
Ernst Klee
(71), German journalist and author (born
1942
)
18 May:
Lothar Schmid
(85), German chess grandmaster (born
1928
)
23 May:
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
(86), German art collector (born
1926
)
24 May:
Gotthard Graubner
, German painter (born
1930
)
26 May:
Hildegard Krekel
(60), German actress (born
1952
)
28 May:
Eddi Arent
(88), German actor (born
1925
)
June
edit
8 June:
Willi Sitte
(92), German painter (born
1921
)
9 June:
Walter Jens
(90), German philosoph (born
1923
)
13 June:
Gotthard Graubner
(82), German painter (born
1930
)
15 June:
Heinz Flohe
(65), German footballer (born
1948
)
16 June:
Ottmar Walter
(89), German footballer (born
1924
)
July
edit
1 July:
Ulrich Matschoss
(96), German actor (born
1917
)
11 July:
Egbert Brieskorn
(77), German mathematician (born
1936
)
19 July:
Bert Trautmann
(89), German footballer (born
1923
)
29 July:
Ludwig Averkamp
(86), German prelate of Roman Catholic Church (born
1927
)
30 July:
Berthold Beitz
(99), German businessman (born
1913
)
August
edit
13 August:
Lothar Bisky
(71), German politician (born
1941
)
17 August:
Claus Jacobi
(86), German journalist (born
1927
)
25 August:
Karl-Wilhelm Welwei
, German historian (born
1930
)
September
edit
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
12 September:
Erich Loest
(87), German writer (born
1926
)
12 September:
Otto Sander
(72), German actor (born
1941
)
18 September:
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
(93), German literary critic (born
1920
)
21 September:
Walter Wallmann
, German politician (born
1932
)
23 September:
Paul Kuhn
(85), German band leader (born
1928
)
October
edit
11 October -
Klaus Behrendt
(92), German television actor (born
1920
)
15 October -
Hans Riegel
(90), German entrepreneur (born
1923
)
29 October -
Rudolf Kehrer
(90), German classical pianist (born
1923
)
November
edit
Dieter Hildebrandt
4 November:
Hans von Borsody
(84), German film actor (born
1929
)
7 November:
Manfred Rommel
(84), German politician (born
1928
)
7 November: Christian Tasche (56), German television actor (born
1957
)
20 November:
Dieter Hildebrandt
(86), German Kabarett artist (born
1927
)
December
edit
5 December:
Günther Förg
(61), German painter (born
1952
)
9 December:
Peter Urban
(72), German translator and writer (born
1941
)
15 December:
Helmar Frank
(80), German mathematician (born
1933
)
24 December:
Helga M. Novak
(78), German writer (born
1935
)
28 December:
Margrit Kennedy
(74), German architect (born
1939
)
31 December:
Irina Korschunow
(88), German writer (born
1925
)
See also
edit
2013 in German television
References
edit
^
"Plagiatsaffäre - Alle Fälle von A-Z | Business And Science" (in German)
. Retrieved
6 August
2019
.
^
"German education minister quits over PhD plagiarism".
the Guardian
. 9 February 2013
. Retrieved
13 October
2022
.
^
Berlin Won’t Join Effort to Ban Far-Right Party
20 March 2013 New York Times
^
"Update Starkregen und Rückblick Mai" (in German). ZAMG
. Retrieved
7 June
2013
.
^
"German politician Thomas Schaeuble dies at 64". The Miami Herald. 4 January 2013
. Retrieved
4 January
2013
.
^
"Trickfilm-Pionier Fieber im Rheingau gestorben". stern.de. 6 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 January 2013
. Retrieved
7 January
2013
.
^
"Akiva Orr, co-founder of Israeli radical left Matzpen party, passes away".
+972 Magazine
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14 February
2013
.