2015 in Germany

Summary

The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany.

2015
in
Germany

Decades:
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:Other events of 2015
History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

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  • 1 January - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German Minimum Wage Law) comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage.
  • 11 January - An arson attack on the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published Charlie Hebdo cartoons, leads to two arrests.[1]
  • 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant.

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  • September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
  • September – Gamescom in Cologne
  • September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
  • 30 September – Alex Springer Media Group is ordered to pay €635,000 compensation for damages for pain and suffering to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann following their reporting of a case in which he was falsely accused of rape. The award was a record sum for such as case, though later reduced to €395,000 on appeal.[4]
  • September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich

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Deaths edit

 
Richard von Weizsäcker
 
Günter Grass
 
Helmut Schmidt

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References edit

  1. ^ "India Today". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Germany to hold 2015 G8 summit at Alpine spa". AP. 23 January 2014.
  3. ^ Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany Archived 7 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, 2015-07-01.
  4. ^ "'Bild' publisher ordered to pay 'record sum' to Kachelmann | DW | 30.09.2015". Deutsche Welle.