2016 in Germany

Events

January

• January 1 – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
• January 30–31 - 2016 FIL World Luge Championships in Königssee

  February

• February 9 - Bad Aibling rail accident
• February 3–7 - 2016 German Masters
• February 11–21 - 66th Berlin International Film Festival
• February 25: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

  March

• CeBIT in Hanover
• ITB Berlin in Berlin
• Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
• Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• March 13: Baden-Württemberg state election, 2016
• March 13: Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2016
• March 13: Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2016
• Böhmermann affair

  April

• Hanover Messe in Hanover
• Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin

  May

• 10 May: Munich knife attack

  June

• Kiel Week in Kiel
• 2016 Düsseldorf terrorism plot
• 9-12: 2016 Bilderberg Conference in Dresden

  July

• July 14–17 - 2016 Extreme Sailing Series in Hamburg
• 18 July: 2016 Würzburg train attack
• 22 July: 2016 Munich shooting
• 24 July: 2016 Ansbach bombing, 2016 Reutlingen machete attack

  August

• Hanse Sail in Rostock
• Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin

  September

• ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
• gamescom in Cologne
• Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
• September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
• September 4: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2016
• September 18: Berlin state election, 2016
• September 28: Following a civil trial in Frankfurt, Claudia Dinkel is ordered to pay compensation to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann for her false rape accusations against him in 2010. The court found Dinkel guilty of indirect deprivation of liberty through a knowingly untrue criminal complaint, establishing that her injuries had been self inflicted.

  October

• 8 October: 2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot
• Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt

  December

• 19 December: 2016 Berlin attack

  Deaths

• January 1: Helmut Koester, American-German scholar of the New Testament
• January 4:
• * Maja Maranow, German actress
• *Achim Mentzel, German actor
• January 9: Robert Naegele, German actor
• January 10: Ulrich Hahnen, German politician
• January 12: Ruth Leuwerik, German actress
• January 27: Artur Fischer, German inventor
• January 31: Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer
• February 7: Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter
• February 23: Peter Lustig, German television presenter and author of children's books
• February 26: Karl Dedecius, Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature
• February 29: Hannes Löhr, German football player
• March 18: Guido Westerwelle, German politician
• March 24: Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician
• March 31: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
• April 7: Hendrikje Fitz, German actress
• April 18: Fritz Herkenrath, German football goalkeeper
• April 19: Karl-Heinz von Hassel, German actor
• April 21: Hans Koschnick, German politician
• April 24: Klaus Siebert, German biathlete
• April 28: Georg Kronawitter, German politician
• April 30: Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor
• May 6: Margot Honecker, German politician
• May 6: Klaus Ampler, German cyclist
• May 9: Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician
• May 11: Peter Behrens, German musician
• May 15: Erika Berger, German television moderator
• May 18: Fritz Stern, German-American historian
• May 31: Rupert Neudeck, German journalist
• June 11: Rudi Altig, German cyclist
• June 19: Götz George, German actor
• July 7: Wolfram Siebeck, German author and journalist
• July 12: Miriam Pielhau, German actress and author
• August 14: Hermann Kant, German author
• August 24: Walter Scheel, German politician, former president
• August 24: Henning Voscherau, German politician
• September 10: Jutta Limbach, German politician and jurist
• September 14: Hilmar Thate, German actor
• October 10: Tamme Hanken, German horse whisperer and animals bonesetter
• October 21 : Manfred Krug, German actor