2012 in Germany
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The following is a list of events from the year 2012 in Germany.
Federal level



- President:
- Christian Wulff (until 17 February 2012)
- Horst Seehofer (Acting; 17 February – 18 March 2012)
- Joachim Gauck (from 18 March 2012)
- 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 – Matthias Platzeck
- 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 – David McAllister
- Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
- Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck
- 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 – Peter Harry Carstensen to 12 June Torsten Albig
- Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht
Events
January – June
- 6 January – In state Saarland coalition of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer breaks up.
- 20 January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich
- 23 January – The drugstore Schlecker files for bankruptcy.
- 9–19 February – 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
- 16 February – Roman Lob is selected to represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 17 February – German President Christian Wulff resigns following a major loan scandal.
- 19 February – Joachim Gauck is chosen as the main candidate to succeed Christian Wulff.
- 27 February – The party Die Linke selects Beate Klarsfeld as its candidate to succeed Christian Wulff.
- 29 February – Schlecker announces the closure of half its stores across Germany.[1]
- 6–10 March – CeBIT in Hanover
- 7–11 March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
- 15–18 March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
- 18 March – German presidential election, 2012 – Joachim Gauck is elected President of Germany, taking the oath of office on 23 March
- 25 March – 1 April – 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund
- 25 March – Elections in state Saarland
- 23–27 April – Hannover Messe in Hanover
- 27 April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
- 6 May – Elections in Schleswig-Holstein
- 13 May – Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft is elected to continue as Minister-President, heading an SPD-Green coalition.
- 22 May – Peter Altmaier replaces Norbert Rottgen as Environment Minister.
- 26 May – Roman Lob represents Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing 8th.[2]
- June – The Germany national football team takes part in UEFA Euro 2012.
- 9 June – 16 September: dOCUMENTA (13)
- 12 June – Torsten Albig is elected as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, after the SPD, Greens and South Schleswig Voter Federation agree to form a coalition in the state.
- 18–24 June – Kiel Week in Kiel
- 28 June – UEFA Euro 2012: The Germany national football team is knocked out at the semi-final stage, by the Italy national football team, through two goals from Mario Balotelli.
- Date unknown: As the largest German-Sino transaction ever, at the end of January 2012 German company Putzmeister was sold to the company Chinese Sany Heavy Industries.
July – December
- 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.








