2014 in Germany

Incumbents

Federal level

• President – Joachim Gauck ;
• Chancellor – Angela Merkel.

  State level

• Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann
• Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer
• Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit
• Minister-President of Brandenburg – Dietmar Woidke
• 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 – Stephan Weil
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – 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

January

• January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich
• January - German Snooker Masters in Berlin
• 6 January - 100th birthday of German art dealer Heinz Berggruen
• 28 - 1 January,200th deathday of German king Karl der Große
• 29 January - 200th deathday of German philosoph Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  February

• 6 to 16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
• February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

  March

• March – CeBIT in Hanover
• March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
• March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
• 7 March - 300th day of Treaty of Rastatt

  April

• April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
• April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin

  May

• 24 May - 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer

  June

• June – Kiel Week in Kiel

  July

• 13 July - The German football team becomes world champion in Brazil.
• 18 July -
• * 4 Germans are confirmed as among the 300 people on board killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 with 193 Dutch nationals in Eastern Ukraine near Russian border.
• * 26 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships
• 28 July - 100th day of start World War I

  August

• August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
• 13 to 24 August - 2014 European Aquatics Championships
• 27 August - 100th birthday of German actress Heidi Kabel
• August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

  September

• September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
• September – gamescom in Cologne
• September – photokina 2014 in Cologne
• September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
• 26 September - 100th deathday of German painter August Macke
• September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich

  October

• October – Frankfurt Book Fair

  November

• 5 November - 700th day of start of Council of Constance

  Deaths

January

• 2 January - Thomas Kurzhals, German composer
• 2 January - Dirk Sager, German journalist
• 9 January - Winfried Hassemer, German criminal law scholar
• 22 January - Fred Bertelmann, German singer
• 31 January - Gundi Busch, German figure skater

  February

• 2 February - Gerd Albrecht, German conductor
• 4 February - Hubert Luthe, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church
• 6 February - Peter Philipp, German writer and comedian
• 17 February - Peter Florin, German politician and diplomat
• 18 February - Bernd Noske, German singer and drummer
• 24 February - Günter Reisch, German film director and screenwriter
• 25 February - Wilfried Brauer, German computer scientist

  March

• 1 March - Eckart Höfling, German Roman Catholic priest in Brazil
• 7 March - Heiko Bellmann, German biologist and zoologist
• 9 March - Justus Pfaue, German author and director
• 14 March - Werner Rackwitz, German opera director

  April

• 3 April - Michael Prinz von Preußen, German writer and royalty
• 4 April - Klaus Meyer, German footballer
• 8 April - Herbert Schoen, German footballer
• 8 April - Karlheinz Deschner, German writer
• 11 April - Helga Mees, German fencer
• 11 April - Eduard Gaugler, German economist
• 21 April - Ilse von Bredow, German writer
• 22 April - Werner Potzernheim, German cyclist
• 25 April - Stefanie Zweig, German writer
• 26 April - Adolf Seilacher, German palaeontologist

  May

• 1 May - Heinz Schenk, German television presenter
• 1 May - Georg Stollenwerk, German footballer and trainer
• 6 May - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector
• 14 May - Wolfgang Heyl, politician
• 16 May - Rolf Boysen, German actor
• 23 May - Richard Kolitsch, German footballer
• 30 May - Michael Szameit, German writer

  June

• 4 June - Kurt Conradi, German actor
• 6 June - Hermann Bahlsen, German manager
• 9 June - Reinhard Höppner, German politician
• 12 June - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and essayist
• 21 June - Johannes Strassmann, German poker player
• 22 June - Werner Biskup, German football player
• 28 June - Peter Klose, German politician

  July

• 5 July - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
• 7 July - Horst Bollmann, German actor
• 14 July - Karl Düsterberg, German manager
• 15 July - Edda Buding
• 16 July - Karl Albrecht, German manager
• 21 July - Hans-Peter Kaul, German judge
• 30 July - Harun Farocki, German film director

  August

• 1 August - Gert von Paczensky, German journalist
• 2 August - Otmar Hornbach, German manager
• 5 August - Elfriede Brüning, German writer
• 10 August - Günter Junghans, German actor
• 15 August - Hermann Weber, German historian
• 16 August - Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist
• 20 August - Klaus Zapf, German manager
• 20 August - Gert Schaefer, German actor
• 21 August - Werner Liersch, German writer
• 24 August - Walter Pradt, German football player
• 25 August - Karl Ganzhorn, German physicist
• 27 August - Benno Pludra, German writer

  September

• 1 September - Gottfried John, German actor
• 4 September - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
• 11 September - Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television moderator
• 20 September - Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg

  October

• 3 October - Peer Augustinski, German actor
• 7 October - Siegfried Lenz, German writer

  November

• 1 November - Klaus Bölling, German publisher
• 13 November - Alexander Grothendieck, German-born mathematician
• 19 November - Mike Nichols, German-born American director

  December

• 9 December - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist
• 10 December - Ralph Giordano, German writer
• 13 December - Ernst Albrecht, German politician
• 22 December - Fritz Sdunek, German boxing trainer and amateur boxer
• 29 December - André Wohllebe, German canoeist
• 30 December - Luise Rainer, German born actress