2015 in Germany
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The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany.
Events
January
- 1 January - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German Minimum Wage Law) comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage.[1]
- 11 January - An arson attack on the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published Charlie Hebdo cartoons, leads to two arrests.[2]
- 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant.[3]
February
- 5–15 February - 140th Berlin International Film Festival
- 15 February: Hamburg state election, 2015 in Hamburg
March
- March - German company Dr Oetker buys German company Coppenrath & Wiese[4]
- 5 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
- 24 March - The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads to widespread media coverage and public attention in Germany. 72 Germans die aboard the German machine that was intentionally crashed by its German co-pilot.[5]
- March – CeBIT in Hanover
- March – ITB Berlin in Berlin
- March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
April
- April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
- April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
May
- 10 May - Bremen state election, 2015 in Bremen
June
- 7–8 June – 41st G7 summit was held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria.[6]
- June – Kiel Week in Kiel
- 29 June – A robot grabbed a man at a Volkswagen production plant in Baunatal and crushed him to death against a metal plate. Prosecutors considered bringing charges after the incident.[7]
August
- August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
- August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
September
- September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- September – Gamescom in Cologne
- September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- 30 September – Alex Springer Media Group is ordered to pay €635,000 compensation for damages for pain and suffering to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann following their reporting of a case in which he was falsely accused of rape. The award was a record sum for such as case, though later reduced to €395,000 on appeal.[8]
- September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
October
- October – Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt
November
- November - German company Merck Group buys American company Sigma-Aldrich[9]
- November - Japanese company Hitachi Koki buys German company Metabo[10]
December
- 31 December –
- New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
- Mein Kampf copyright runs out
