2015 in Germany

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The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany .

Contents

Incumbents

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

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Richard von Weizsäcker
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Günter Grass
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Helmut Schmidt

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