2014 in Germany

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The following is a list of events from the year 2014 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

Angela Merkel

Joachim Gauck

• 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

• 6–16 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 year 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
• 25 May –
  • 2014 European Parliament election in Germany
  • Udo Voigt is elected as the NDP party's first Member of the European Parliament.

June

• June – Kiel Week in Kiel

July

Germany national football team wins in Brazil

• 13 July – The Germany national 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 year of start World War I

August

• August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
• 13–24 August – 2014 European Aquatics Championships
• 15 August – Reopening of Hildesheim Cathedral after four and a half years of renovation.
• 27 August – 100th birthday of German actress Heidi Kabel
• August–September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

September

• September – "Shariah Police" incident in Wuppertal, Germany (2014), Hardline Salafist Muslims patrolled the streets of