2013 in Germany
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History of Germany • Timeline • Years
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The following is a list of events from the year 2013 in Germany.
Federal level


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 (until 18 February), Stephan Weil
- Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
- Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck (until 16 January), 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 – June
- January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich
- 16 January – Malu Dreyer becomes Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, succeeding Kurt Beck, who had served in this position since 1994.
- 20 January – Lower Saxony state election, 2013 in Niedersachsen
- 30 January – German Snooker Masters in Berlin
- 7–17 February – 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
- 9 February – Education minister Annette Schavan resigns after having her doctorate removed following a plagiarism scandal.[1][2]
- 9–19 February – 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin
- 13 February – The Europe-wide horsemeat scandal spreads to Germany, as some supermarket products sold as beef are found to contain it.
- 14 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 – Cascada is selected to represent Germany.
- March – CeBIT in Hanover
- March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
- March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
- 18 March -200 year anniversary of German poet and playwright Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- March – the Merkel government says it would not try to ban the Nationalist National Democratic Party of Germany NPD.[3]
- April – Hannover Messe in Hanover
- April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
- 1–5 May – German Evangelical Church Day 2013 in Hamburg
- 18 May – Cascada represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
- 22 May
- 150 year birthday of Social Democratic Party of Germany and in Leipzig organisation Progressive Alliance was found.
- 200 year anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner
- 25 May – The first all-German Champions League final takes place at Wembley Stadium in London, and sees Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1.
- June – Kiel Week in Kiel
- June – Heavy floods affect primarily the southern and eastern states of (Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia).[4]
July – December
- August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
- August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
- 10 September Olympic fencing champion German Thomas Bach elected President of the International Olympic Committee to succeed Jacques Rogge.
- 16 September – Bavaria state election, 2013 in Bavaria
- September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- September – Gamescom in Cologne
- September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- September – October – Oktoberfest in Munich
- 22 September
- October – Frankfurt Book Fair
- October/November – In German media and public the 2013 global surveillance disclosures is on media and politic topic and German people got to know, that the mobile phone of chancellor Angela Merkel was hacked by NSA since 2002.
- 3 November – Referendum on the recommunalization of energy supply in Berlin
- 7 December – 26th European Film Awards in Berlin
- 17 December – The Third Merkel cabinet led by Angela Merkel was sworn in.






