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HOW IT WORKS
2009 in Germany
Summary
Events in the year
2009 in
Germany
.
←
2008
2007
2006
2009
in
Germany
→
2010
2011
2012
Decades:
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also:
Other events of 2009
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
Federal level
edit
President
–
Horst Köhler
Chancellor
–
Angela Merkel
State level
edit
Minister-President of
Baden-Württemberg
–
Günther Oettinger
Minister-President of Bavaria
–
Horst Seehofer
Governing mayor of Berlin
–
Klaus Wowereit
First mayor of Bremen
–
Jens Böhrnsen
Minister-President of Brandenburg
–
Matthias Platzeck
First mayor of Hamburg
–
Ole von Beust
Minister-President of
Hesse
–
Roland Koch
Minister-President of
Lower Saxony
–
Christian Wulff
Minister-President of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
–
Erwin Sellering
Minister-President of
North Rhine-Westphalia
–
Jürgen Rüttgers
Minister-President of
Rhineland-Palatinate
–
Kurt Beck
Minister-President of the
Saarland
–
Peter Müller
Minister-President of
Saxony
–
Stanislaw Tillich
Minister-President of
Saxony-Anhalt
–
Wolfgang Böhmer
Minister-President of
Schleswig-Holstein
–
Peter Harry Carstensen
Minister-President of
Thuringia
–
Dieter Althaus
Events
edit
15 January – Germany presses
Moscow
and
Kyiv
to end the
Russian gas crisis
.
[1]
5–15 February –
59th Berlin International Film Festival
9 February –
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
March – The
Volkswagen Polo Mk5
is launched at the
Geneva Motor Show
and was voted
European Car of the Year
eight months later.
11 March – A 17-year-old former student
goes on a rampage
at his former school in
Winnenden
,
Germany
, killing at least fifteen people, before turning the gun on himself.
23 May –
2009 German presidential election
15–23 August –
2009 World Championships in Athletics
takes place in Berlin.
Usain Bolt
breaks the world records for
200 metres
and
100 metres
.
30 August –
2009 Saarland state election
,
2009 Saxony state election
and
2009 Thuringia state election
take place
September –
Opel
launches new
Astra
at
Frankfurt Motor Show
.
27 September –
2009 German federal election
takes place.
Angela Merkel
wins reelection as chancellor.
27 September –
2009 Schleswig-Holstein state election
and
2009 Brandenburg state election
take place.
28 October – German bishop
Margot Käßmann
becomes first elected woman as leader of
Evangelical Church in Germany
.
28 October – The
Second Merkel cabinet
led by
Angela Merkel
was sworn in.
30 October –
Christine Lieberknecht
(
CDU
) becomes Minister-President of state
Thuringia
.
27 November –
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
, the
Chief of Staff
of the German
Bundeswehr
, and
Franz Josef Jung
resign over allegations that they withheld information in the aftermath of the
Kunduz
airstrike.
30 November –
Ursula von der Leyen
becomes
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Germany)
and
Kristina Köhler
becomes new
Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
December –
Dresdner Bank
was acquired by German
Commerzbank
.
Deaths
edit
5 January –
Adolf Merckle
, industrialist (born
1934
)
2 March –
Ernst Benda
, politician (born
1925
)
28 March –
Helmut Noller
,
Olympic
canoe sprinter
(born
1919
)
4 May –
Gisela Stein
, German actress (born
1935
)
13 May –
Monica Bleibtreu
, German actress (born
1944
)
23 May –
Barbara Rudnik
, actress (born
1958
)
9 June –
Karl Michael Vogler
, actor (born
1928
)
17 June –
Ralf Dahrendorf
, sociologist and politician (born
1929
)
19 June – Joerg Hube, actor (born
1943
)
30 June –
Pina Bausch
, choreographer and dancer (born
1940
)
30 July –
Peter Zadek
, theatre and film director (born
1926
)
31 July – Ilona Christen, journalist (born
1951
)
18 August –
Hildegard Behrens
, opera singer (born
1937
)
22 August –
Horst E. Brandt
, film director (born
1923
)
19 September –
Eduard Zimmermann
, journalist (born
1929
)
3 October –
Reinhard Mohn
, businessman (born
1921
)
4 October –
Guenther Rall
, fighter pilot (born
1918
)
6 October –
Werner Maihofer
, jurist and legal philosopher (born
1918
)
9 October –
Horst Szymaniak
, footballer (born
1934
)
19 October –
Dietrich von Bothmer
, art historian (born
1918
)
10 November –
Robert Enke
, footballer (born
1977
)
15 November –
Hans Matthöfer
, German politician (born
1925
)
27 November –
Erich Böhme
, journalist (born
1930
)
5 December –
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
, German politician of the Free Democratic Party (born
1926
)
23 December –
Rainer Zepperitz
, German double bassist (born
1930
)
See also
edit
2009 in German television
References
edit
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5523780.ece
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dead link
]