2009 in Germany

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Last updated July 04, 2025

Incumbents

Federal level

President – Horst Köhler
Chancellor – Angela Merkel

State level

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

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

5 January – Adolf Merckle, industrialist (born 1934)
2 March – Ernst Benda, politician (born 1925)
3 March - Johanna König, actress (born 1921)
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)

References

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