2009 in Germany

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2009 in Germany

Other years in Germany

2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012

See also

List of years in Germany • Timeline of German history History of Germany • Military history of Germany

Events from the year 2009 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

• President – Horst Köhler
• Chancellor – Angela Merkel

State level

• Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg – Günther Oettinger
• Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer
• Governing mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit
• First mayor of Bremen – Jens Böhrnsen
• Minister-President of Brandenburg – Matthias Platzeck
• First mayor of Hamburg – Ole von Beust
• Minister-President of Hesse – Roland Koch
• Minister-President of Lower Saxony – Christian Wulff
• Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Jürgen Rüttgers
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck
• Minister-President of the Saarland – Peter Müller
• Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich
• Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Wolfgang Böhmer
• Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Peter Harry Carstensen
• Minister-President of Thuringia – Dieter Althaus

Events

January

• 15 January - Germany presses Moscow and Kiev to end the Russian gas crisis.^[1]

March

• 11 March - A 17 year old former student goes on a rampage at his former school in Winnenden, Germany, killing at least fifteen people, before turning the gun on himself.

May

• 23 May - German presidential election, 2009

August

• 15 - 23 August - 2009 World Championships in Athletics takes place in Berlin. Usain Bolt breaks the world records for 200 metres and 100 metres.
• 30 August - Saarland state election, 2009, Saxony state election, 2009 and Thuringia state election, 2009 take place

sex day

September

• 27 September - German federal election, 2009 takes place. Angela Merkel wins reelection as chancellor.
• 27 September - Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2009 and Brandenburg state election, 2009 take place.

October

• 28 October - German bishop Margot Käßmann becomes first elected woman as leader of Evangelical Church in Germany.
• 30 October - Christine Lieberknecht (CDU) becomes Minister-President of state Thuringia.

November

• 27 November - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr, and Franz Josef Jung resign over allegations that they withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike.

• 30 November - Ursula von der Leyen becomes Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany) and Kristina Köhler becomes new Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth

Deaths

• 19 June - Joerg Hube, actor (born 1943)
• 30 June - Pina Bausch, choreographer and dancer (born 1940)
• 30 July - Peter Zadek, theatre and film director (born 19 May 1926)
• 31 July - Ilona Christen, journalist (born 1951)
• 18 August - Hildegard Behrens, opera singer (born 1937)
• 19 September - Eduard Zimmermann, journalist (born 1929)
• 3 October - Reinhard Mohn, businessman (born 1921)
• 4 October - Guenther Rall, fighter pilot (born 1918)
• 6 October - Werner Maihofer, jurist and legal philosopher (born 20 October 1918)
• 19 October - Dietrich von Bothmer, art historian (born 1918)
• 10 November - Robert Enke, footballer (born 1977)
• 27 November - Erich Böhme, journalist (born 1930)
• 5 December - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician of the Free Democratic Party (born 1926)

References