Events in the year 2012 in Germany .
Incumbents
Federal level
Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck Angela Merkel
State level
Events
3 July – Heinz Fromm resigns as Head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , following controversies over the organisation's handling of the far-right.
early July – Success for German players in the Wimbledon tennis Singles: In the Men's section, Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber reach the quarter-finals; in the Women's section, Sabine Lisicki reaches the quarter-finals, and Angelique Kerber reaches the semi-finals.
13 July – FIFA President Sepp Blatter alleges that there were irregularities when Germany won the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup .
31 July - Germany wins its first Gold Medals of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , in the Equestrian sport, taking team gold, and with Michael Jung taking individual gold.
9–12 August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
31 August – 5 September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
11–16 September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
12 September - The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled, that the new European bailout fund was inline with the German constitution .
15–19 September – Gamescom in Cologne
18–23 September – photokina in Cologne
20–27 September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
21 September - JadeWeserPort opened.[ 3]
22 September – 7 October – Oktoberfest in Munich
28 September - The SPD selects Peer Steinbruck as its candidate to face Angela Merkel in the German federal election, 2013 .
4 October - Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from Formula One .
5 October - Footballer Michael Ballack announces an end to his playing career.
10–14 October – Frankfurt Book Fair , with special guest New Zealand .
12 November - 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt
25 November - In Formula One , German driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year.
26 November - A fire at a workshop for disabled people in Southwestern Germany kills 14 people.
6 December - German officials tried to outlaw the Nationalist National Democratic Party of Germany , with the interior ministers of all 16 states recommending a ban. The Federal Constitutional Court is yet to vote on the recommendation.[ 4]
10 December - An explosive device is found, and made safe, at the main railway station in Bonn .
25 December - Joachim Gauck makes his first Christmas address as President.
Date unknown: German company Volkswagen Group acquired Italian company Ducati and German companies MAN and Porsche .
Deaths
January
Vadim Glowna 1941–20122 January – Helmut Müller-Brühl , 78, conductor (born 1933 )
3 January – Willi Entenmann , 68, footballer and coach (born 1943 )
4 January – Xaver Unsinn , 82, ice hockey player (born 1929 )
8 January – Bernhard Schrader , chemist and academic (born 1931 )
10 January – Kyra T. Inachin , 43, historian (born 1968 )
13 January – Guido Dessauer , 96, paper engineer and art collector (born 1915 )
17 January – Julius Meimberg , 95, Luftwaffe flying ace (born 1917 )
18 January – Georg Lassen , 96, naval officer (born 1915 )
24 January – Vadim Glowna , 70, actor and film director (born 1941 )
25 January – Veronica Carstens , 88, former First Lady (born 1923 )
February
Gunther Plaut 1912–20121 February – Lutz Philipp , 71, Olympic athlete (born 1940 )
2 February – Paul Consbruch , 81, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930 )
8 February – Gunther Plaut , 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author (born 1912 )
20 February – Imanuel Geiss , 81, historian (born 1931 )
25 February – Louisiana Red , 79, American blues musician (born 1932 )
27 February – Werner Guballa , 67, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1944 )
March
April
Barbara Buchholz 1959–20125 April – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche , 76, entrepreneur and auto designer (born 1935 )
6 April - Heinz Kunert , German engineer (born 1927 )
9 April – Ivan Nagel , 80, theatre director (born 1931 )
10 April – Barbara Buchholz , 52, musician and composer (born 1959 )
12 April – Manfred Orzessek , 78, footballer (born 1933 )
18 April – Fritz Theilen , 84, resistance activist (born 1927 )
20 April – Peter Carsten , 83, actor (born 1928 )
21 April – Heinz Jentzsch , 92, racehorse trainer (born 1920 )
May
Günther Kaufmann 3 May – Felix Werder , 90, German-born Australian composer (born 1922 )
10 May – Horst Faas , 79, photojournalist (born 1933 )
10 May – Gunther Kaufmann , 64, actor (born 1947 )
12 May – Ernst Josef Fittkau , 75, entomologist (born 1927 )
12 May – Fritz Ursell , 89, German-born British mathematician (born 1923 )
15 May – Peter Koslowski , 59, philosopher and academic (born 1952 )
15 May – Arno Lustiger , 88, Polish-born writer and historian of Judaism (born 1922 )
16 May – Hans Geister , 83, athlete (born 1928 )
18 May – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , 86, baritone and conductor (born 1925 )
18 May – Hans-Dieter Lange , 85, television journalist (born 1926 )
19 May - Gerhard Hetz 69, swimmer (born 1942 )
24 May – Klaas Carel Faber , 90, Dutch-born war criminal, died in Ingolstadt (born 1922 )
27 May – Friedrich Hirzebruch , 84, mathematician (born 1927 )
30 May – Gerhard Pohl , 74, politician (born 1937 )
June
Karl-Heinz Kammerling 1930–20129 June – Audrey Arno , 70, pop singer (born 1942 )
12 June – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen , 94, psychoanalyst (born 1917 )
14 June – Karl-Heinz Kammerling , 82, academic teacher of pianists (born 1930 )
18 June – Lina Haag , 105, anti-fascist activist during World War II. (born 1907 )
20 June – Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Kostritz , 92, nobleman (born 1919 )
24 June – Gad Beck , 88, Resistance activist and Holocaust survivor (born 1923 )
24 June – Franz Crass , 84, bass singer (born 1928 )
24 June – Rudolf Schmid , 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic bishop (born 1914 )
25 June – Doris Schade , 88, television actress (born 1924 )
27 June – Ralph Warren Victor Elliott , 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist (born 1921 )
July
Susanne Lothar 1960–201210 July – Fritz Langanke , 92, Waffen SS Lieutenant (born 1919 )
18 July – Günther Maleuda , 81, politician, President of the People's Chamber (1989–1990) (born 1931 )
19 July – Hans Nowak , 74, footballer (born 1937 )
21 July - Susanne Lothar , 51, actress (born 1960 )
23 July – Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen , 86, head of the Royal House of Saxony (born 1926 )
27 July - Carl-Ludwig Wagner , 82, politician, former Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (born 1930 )
29 July - Heinz Staab , 86, chemist (born 1926 )
31 July - Rudolf Kreitlein , 92, football referee (born 1919 )
August
Georg Leber 1920-20122 August - Bernd Meier , 40, footballer (born 1972 )
8 August - Kurt Maetzig , 101, film director (born 1911 )
19 August - Hellmut Geissner , 86, scholar (born 1926 )
21 August - Georg Leber , 91, politician (born 1920 )
24 August - Georg Feuerstein , 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism (born 1947 )
26 August - Krzysztof Wilmanski , 72, Polish-born German scientist (born 1940 )
28 August - Alfred Schmidt , 81, philosopher (born 1931 )
30 August - Paul Friedrichs , 72, motocross racer (born 1940 )
31 August - Norbert Walter , 67, economist (born 1944 )
September
October
Dirk Bach 1961-20121 October - Dirk Bach , 51, comedian, actor and television presenter (born 1961 )
4 October - Erhard Wunderlich , 55, handball player (born 1956 )
6 October - Albert, Margrave of Meissen , 77, nobleman (born 1934 )
11 October - Helmut Haller , 73, footballer (born 1939 )
12 October - Harry Valérien , 88, sports journalist and presenter (born 1923 )
17 October - Henry Friedlander , 82, German-born American Jewish historian (born 1930 )
27 October - Hans Werner Henze , 86, composer (born 1926 )
31 October - Alfons Demming , 84, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1928 )
November
December
Peter Struck 1943-20124 December - Peter Kiesewetter , 67, composer (born 1945 )
7 December - Berthold Albrecht , 58, businessman (born 1954 )
11 December - Albert O. Hirschman , 97, German-born American economist (born 1915 )
14 December - Klaus Koste , 69, gymnast (born 1943 )
16 December - Axel Anderson , 83, German-born Puerto Rican actor (born 1929 )
19 December - Peter Struck , 69, politician (born 1943 )
25 December - Rudolf Muller , 81, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1931 )
27 December - Jesco von Puttkamer , 79, German-born American aerospace engineer (born 1933 )
28 December - Emmanuel Scheffer , 88, German-born Israeli football coach (born 1924 )
See also
References
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