2003 in Germany

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Events in the year 2003 in Germany .

Incumbents

• President – Johannes Rau
• Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder

Events

• 6–16 February: 53rd Berlin International Film Festival
• 7 March: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• 27 March: Death of Jeremiah Duggan ^[1]
• 2 July: Coburg shooting ^[2]
• 14 July: Accident on the Bundesautobahn 5

Full date unknown

• Learning Resource Server Medicine is developed in German and English for medicine and dentistry learning and teaching. ^[3]

Elections

• Bavarian state election, 2003
• Bremen state election, 2003
• Hessian state election, 2003
• Lower Saxony state election, 2003

Sport

• 2003 Men's European Volleyball Championship
• 2002–03 Bundesliga
• 2002–03 2. Bundesliga
• 2002–03 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season
• 2003 European Grand Prix
• 2003 German Grand Prix
• 2003 German motorcycle Grand Prix
• 2003 BMW Open

Births

• 15 September - Pascal Brendel, German gymnast

Deaths

• 5 February - Manfred von Brauchitsch, German racing driver (born 1905)
• 3 March - Horst Buchholz, German actor (born 1933) ^[4]
• 18 March - Karl Kling, German racing driver (born 1910)
• 28 March - Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer (born 1913)
• 18 April - Rudolf Brunnenmeier, German football player (born 1941)
• 30 May - Günter Pfitzmann, German actor (born 1924)
• 5 June - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (born 1945)
• 25 July - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneer (born 1912)
• 26 July - Jürgen Brandt, German general (born 1922)
• 14 August - Helmut Rahn, German football player (born 1929)
• 28 August - Peter Hacks, German playwright and author (born 1928)
• 28 August - Philipp-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German nobleman (born 1928)
• 8 September - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer (born 1902)
• 14 September - Henry Schmill, German mining engineer (born 1925) ^[5]
• 21 October - Werner Krüger, German engineer (born 1910)
• 26 October - Heinz Piontek, German writer (born 1925)
• 23 November - Lothar Emmerich, German football player (born 1941)
• 27 November - Will Quadflieg, German actor (born 1914)

See also

• 2003 in German television

References

1. (in German) Müller, Daniel. "Warum starb Jeremiah?", Die Zeit, 19 November 2015 (translation; translation archived at ).
2. Paterson, Tony (3 July 2003). "Pupil kills himself in school shooting". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2009.
3. Geueke M, Stausberg J. |title=Lehr- und Lernmodule on Demand: Der Learning Resource Server in Vision 2003. In: Jäckel A, Hrsg. Telemedizinführer Deutschland. Ausgabe 2003. Ober-Mörlen: Medizin Forum AG, 2002: 140-3.
4. McGeorge, Alistair (11 November 2016). "Last of the Magnificent Seven rides into the sunset: Who were the other cowboys in Robert Vaughn's posse?". Daily Mirror . MGN Limited. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
5. Construction news: Founder of Amco, Henry Schmill, dies at age 77, 2003.09.25 Link. Archived January 13, 2020, at the Wayback Machine