2013 in Germany

Incumbents

Federal level

• 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 – 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, Stephan Weil
• Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
• Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck, 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.
• 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
• April – Hanover 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.
• 22 May - 200 year anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner
• 25 May - German football team Bayern Munich win in London Champions League, beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1
• June – Kiel Week in Kiel
• June - Heavy floods affect primarily the southern and eastern states of.

  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 - German federal election, 2013
• 22 September - Hesse state election, 2013 in Hesse
• 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.

  Deaths

January

• 3 January - Thomas Schäuble, 64, German politician, complications following a heart attack.
• 6 January - Gerhard Fieber, 96, animation pioneer, producer and director, natural causes.
• 9 January - Werner Altegoer, 77, businessman and football administrator
• 15 January - Princess Margarita of Baden, 80, aristocrat
• 17 January - Jakob Arjouni, 48, writer
• 19 January - Hans Massaquoi, 86, German-born American journalist and editor
• 24 January - Gottfried Landwehr, 83, physicist

  February

• 3 February - Wolfgang Abraham, 71, footballer
• 7 February - Jurgen Untermann, 84, linguist
• 8 February - Dieter Schutte, 89, publisher
• 9 February - Aki Orr, 81, German-born Israeli politician and writer
• 13 February - Stefan Wigger, 80, actor
• 18 February - Otfried Preußler, 89, children's book author
• 18 February - Otto Beisheim, 88, manager
• 19 February - Hubert Schieth, 86, football manager
• 22 February - Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, conductor and pianist

  March

• 3 March: Johann Eekhoff, economist
• 5 March: Dieter Pfaff, actor
• 6 March: Sabine Bischoff, fencer
• 8 March: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, officer
• 11 March: Martin Adolf Bormann, theologian
• 13 March: Rolf Schult, actor
• 20 March: Nasser El Sonbaty, bodybuilder
• 23 March: Reinhard Lakomy, German songwriter, composer
• 28 March: Heinz Patzig, footballer

  April

• 6 April: Ottmar Schreiner, politician
• 10 April: Bernhard Rieger, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• 16 April: Reinhard Lettmann, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church

  May

• 5 May: Sarah Kirsch: German poet
• 12 May: Gerd Langguth, German author and professor of policial science
• 17 May: Peter Schulz, German politician
• 18 May: Ernst Klee, German journalist and author
• 18 May: Lothar Schmid, German chess grandmaster
• 23 May: Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, German art collector
• 24 May: Gotthard Graubner, German painter
• 26 May: Hildegard Krekel, German actress
• 28 May: Eddi Arent, German actor

  June

• 8 June: Willi Sitte, German painter
• 9 June: Walter Jens, German philosoph
• 13 June: Gotthard Graubner, German painter
• 15 June: Heinz Flohe, German footballer
• 16 June: Ottmar Walter, German footballer

  July

• 1 July: Ulrich Matschoss, German actor
• 11 July: Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician
• 19 July: Bert Trautmann, German footballer
• 29 July: Ludwig Averkamp, German prelate of Roman Catholic Church
• 30 July: Berthold Beitz, German businessman

  August

• 13 August: Lothar Bisky, German politician
• 17 August: Claus Jacobi, German journalist
• 25 August: Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, German historian

  September

• 12 September: Erich Loest, German writer
• 12 September: Otto Sander, German actor
• 18 September: Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic
• 21 September: Walter Wallmann, German politician
• 23 September: Paul Kuhn, German band leader

  October

• 11 October - Klaus Behrendt, German television actor
• 15 October - Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur
• 29 October - Rudolf Kehrer, German classical pianist

  November

• 4 November: Hans von Borsody, German film actor
• 7 November: Manfred Rommel, German politician
• 7 November: Christian Tasche, German television actor
• 20 November: Dieter Hildebrandt, German Kabarett artist

  December

• 5 December: Günther Förg, German painter
• 9 December: Peter Urban, German translator and writer
• 15 December: Helmar Frank, German mathematician
• 24 December: Helga M. Novak, German writer
• 28 December: Margrit Kennedy, German architect
• 31 December: Irina Korschunow, German writer