2014 in Germany
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The following is a list of events from the year 2014 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 – 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[1]
- 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[2]
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
July
- 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 Wuppertal, a city in the west of Germany, to "influence and recruit young people", according to local police.[3] Dressed in bright orange reflective vests with "Shariah Police" printed on the back, the male patrollers loitered around discotheques and gambling houses, telling passers-by to refrain from gambling and alcohol. Wuppertal's police have pressed charges.[4]
- September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- September – Gamescom in Cologne
- September – photokina 2014 in Cologne
- September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- 26 September – 100th deathday of German painter August Macke
- September – October – Oktoberfest in Munich
October
- October – Frankfurt Book Fair
November
- 5 November – 600th year of start of Council of Constance
