2017 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|2017}}
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This list details notable events occurring in 2017 in Germany. Major events included the death of Helmut Kohl, the legalization of same-sex marriage and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) enters the Bundestag for the first time.
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Incumbents
- President:
- Joachim Gauck (until 18 March 2017)
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier (from 18 March 2017)
- Chancellor: Angela Merkel
Events
=January=
- January – 2016–2017 Tour de Ski
- January – 2016–2017 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 4
- January – 2016–2017 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 5
- 11 January – Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg opened.
- 20 January – Museum Barberini in Potsdam opened.
=February=
- 1–5 February – 2017 German Masters
- 9–18 February – 67th Berlin International Film Festival
- 9 February – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- 12 February – 2017 German presidential election
=March=
- CeBIT in Hanover
- ITB Berlin in Berlin
- Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
- Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- In March 2017, French company Groupe PSA agreed to buy German company Opel and its English sister brand Vauxhall and their European auto lending business from General Motors for US$2.2 billion,
- 9 March – 2017 Düsseldorf axe attack
- 26 March – 2017 Saarland state election
=April=
- Hanover Messe in Hanover
- Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
- 7 April – Opening of Internationale Gartenausstellung 2017
=May=
=June=
- Kiel Week in Kiel
- Rosenhang Museum in Weilburg opened.
- 10 June – September Documenta 14
- Merger of German company The Linde Group and Praxair.
- 27 June – Armin Laschet become Minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- 28 June – Daniel Günther become Minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein.
- 30 June – The Bundestag voted to make same-sex marriage legal.
=July=
- 4 July – Manuela Schwesig become Minister-president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- 6 July - The Transparency in Wage Structures Act goes into effect.
- 7–8 July – 2017 G20 Hamburg summit
- 28 July – 2017 Hamburg attack
- 30 July – Konstanz shooting
=August=
- Hanse Sail in Rostock
- Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
- 15 August – Air Berlin files for bankruptcy.
- 18 August – Bain Capital and Cinven acquired German company Stada Arzneimittel.{{Cite web |url=http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/stada-bain-capital-und-cinven-gelingt-kauf-a-1163470.html |title=Manager-Magazin.de: Bain Capital und Cinven gelingt Kauf von Stada (German) |access-date=18 August 2017 |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221220055/https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/stada-bain-capital-und-cinven-gelingt-kauf-a-1163470.html |url-status=live }}
=== September ===
- 24 September – 2017 German federal election
- The (CDU/CSU), led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, wins the highest percentage of the vote with 33%, though it suffered a large swing against it of more than 8%.
- The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) achieved its worst result since post-war Germany at 21%.
- The Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag, became the third largest party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote. It was the first time since 1957 that a party to the political right of the CDU/CSU gained seats in the Bundestag.
- ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
- Gamescom in Cologne
- Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
- September – October – Oktoberfest in Munich
= October =
- Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt
- 15 October – 2017 Lower Saxony state election
= December =
- 1 December – 2017 World Women's Handball Championship
- December – German company Hamburg Süd is sold to Danish company Maersk.
Deaths
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= January =
- 4 January: Heinz Billing, German physicist and computer scientist (b. 1914).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bild.de/regional/aktuelles/bayern/computerpionier-heinz-billing-ist-tot-49653080.bild.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830101122/https://www.bild.de/regional/aktuelles/bayern/computerpionier-heinz-billing-ist-tot-49653080.bild.html|url-status=dead|title=Computerpionier Heinz Billing ist tot|archivedate=30 August 2019|website=bild.de}}
- 10 January: Roman Herzog, German politician, former president (born 1934)
- 13 January: Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist and political scientist (born 1960)
- 14 January: Herbert Mies, German politician (born 1929)
- 16 January: Franz Jarnach, German actor and musician. (born 1943)
- 20 January: Klaus Huhn, German journalist, writer and sports administrator (born 1928)
- 26 January: Michael Tönnies, German football player (born 1959)
- 27 January: Brunhilde Pomsel, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels (b. 1911).{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/brunhilde-pomsel-secretary-to-nazi-propaganda-minister-joseph-goebbels-dies-at-106/2017/01/29/ab645200-dcf6-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html |title=Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, dies at 106 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=5 April 2019 |archive-date=29 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129190520/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/brunhilde-pomsel-secretary-to-nazi-propaganda-minister-joseph-goebbels-dies-at-106/2017/01/29/ab645200-dcf6-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html |url-status=live }}
= February =
- 6 February: Inge Keller, German actress (born 1923)
- 15 February: Manfred Kaiser, German footballer (born 1929)
= March =
- 12 March: Horst Ehmke, German politician (born 1927)
- 23 March: Ingeborg Rapoport, German paediatrician (b. 1912){{Cite web |url=http://www.wbal.com/article/228878/130/germany-doctorate-recipient-who-defied-nazis-dies-at-104 |title=Germany: Doctorate recipient who defied Nazis dies at 104 |access-date=6 April 2019 |archive-date=6 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406104241/https://www.wbal.com/article/228878/130/germany-doctorate-recipient-who-defied-nazis-dies-at-104 |url-status=live }}
- 28 March: Christine Kaufmann, German actress (born 1945)
= April =
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- 9 April: Dieter Kottysch, German boxer (born 1943)
- 11 April: Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (born 1935)
= May =
- 2 May: Heinz Kessler, German politician, military officer and a convicted felon (born 1920)
- 11 May: Helga Haller von Hallerstein, German politician (born 1927)
- 15 May: Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (born 1922)
- 16 May: Gunnar Möller, German actor (born 1928)
- 20 May: Paul Falk, Germann pair skater (born 1921)
= June =
- 1 June: Tankred Dorst, German playwright and storyteller (born 1925)
- 11 June: Alexandra Kluge, German actress and physician (born 1937)
- 16 June: Helmut Kohl, German politician, former chancellor (born 1930)
- 22 June: Gunter Gabriel, Germann singer, musician and composer (born 1942)
= July =
- 10 July: Peter Härtling, German writer, poet, publisher and journalist. (born 1933)
- 20 July: Andrea Jürgens German singer (born 1967)
- 22 July: Fritz Hellwig, German politician (born 1912)
- 26 July: Constantin Heereman von Zuydtwyck, German politician (born 1931)
= August =
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- 5 August: Martin Roth, German museum director (born 1955)
- 10 August: Ruth Pfau, German physician and nun (born 1929)
- 15 August: Eberhard Jäckel, German historian (born 1929)
- 19 August: Karl Otto Götz, German painter (b. 1914){{Cite web|url=https://rp-online.de/kultur/kunst/karl-otto-goetz-jahrhundertmaler-im-alter-von-103-jahren-gestorben_aid-17856039|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20170822061029/http://www.rp-online.de/kultur/kunst/karl-otto-goetz-jahrhundertmaler-im-alter-von-103-jahren-gestorben-aid-1.7025955|url-status=dead|title=Im Alter von 103 Jahren: Jahrhundertmaler Karl Otto Götz gestorben|first=RP|last=ONLINE|date=21 August 2017|archivedate=22 August 2017|website=RP ONLINE}}
- 20 August: Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (born 1919)
- 20 August: Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher (born 1927)
- 24 August: Axel Bernstein, German politician (born 1974)
= September =
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- 8 September: Karl Ravens, German politician (born 1927)
- 12 September: Heiner Geißler, German politician (born 1930)
- 15 September: Albert Speer Jr., German architect (born 1934)
- 27 September: Joy Fleming, German singer (born 1944)
- 28 September: Andreas Schmidt, German actor (born 1963)
= October =
- 7 October: Hugo Budinger, German field hockey player (born 1927)
- 11 October: Karl-Heinz Kipp, German entrepreneur (born 1924)
= November =
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- 5 November: Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (born 1956)
- 6 November: Karin Dor, German actress (born 1938)
- 7 November: Hans-Michael Rehberg, German actor (born 1938)
- 7 November: Hans Schäfer, German footballer (born 1927)
- 20 November: {{Ill|Dieter Bellmann|lt=Dieter Bellmann|de}}, German actor (born 1940){{Cite web |date=23 November 2017 |title=Verstorbener "In aller Freundschaft"-Star soll seine Krankheit verheimlicht haben |url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/dieter-bellmann-verstorbener-in-aller-freundschaft-star-soll-krankheit-verheimlicht-haben_id_7885510.html |website=focus.de}}
- 21 November: Peter Berling, German actor (born 1934)
= December =
- 3 December: Elmar Faber, German book publisher (born 1934)
- 25 December: Erich Kellerhals, German businessman (born 1939)
- 30 December: Bernd Spier, German singer (born 1944)
See also
References
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