2023 In Germany

Events in the year 2023 in Germany.

Incumbents

*President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
*Chancellor: Olaf Scholz

Events

* 5 January – The United States and Germany agree to send Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. Germany will also supply the Ukrainian military with a MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system.
* 8 January – North Rhine-Westphalia Police arrest two Iranian brothers in Castrop-Rauxel, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the suspicion of planning an Islamic terrorist attack using chemical weapons.
* 16 January – German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns from the Scholz cabinet amid criticism over her handling of the war in Ukraine.
* 22 January – German Foreign Affairs Minister Annalena Baerbock says that Germany will not prevent Poland from sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine which Ukrainian officials say are pivotal to defeating Russian forces on the battlefield.
* 24 January – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz decides to send Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, and will allow other operators of the tanks, such as Poland, to do so as well.
* 25 January – Two people are killed and seven others are wounded in a mass stabbing on a passenger train in Brokstedt, Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein.
* 10 February – At least 35 people are injured when a bus overturns near Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
* 12 February – 2023 Berlin repeat state election
* 22 February – Germany expels two employees of the Iranian embassy in response to Iran sentencing pro-monarchist dual German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd to death over a 2008 bombing in Iran.
* 9 March – A mass shooting in Hamburg kills six people and injures eight others. The gunman then commits suicide.
* 9–11 March – Last meeting of Synodal Path in Frankfurt am Main
* 3 April – Four people are injured in a fire at a hospital in Berlin. One person has been arrested on suspicion of arson.
* 11 April – Germany expels the ambassador of Chad in a tit-for-tat decision following the expulsion of the German ambassador from Chad last week.

Predicted and scheduled

* 14 May: 2023 Bremen state election
* 8 October: 2023 Bavarian state election
* 2023 Hessian state election

Deaths

January

* 1 January – Bob Jongen, 95, German-born Dutch footballer. (born 1927)
* 2 January – Kurt Horres, 90, theatre director. (born 1932)
* 3 January – Norbert Werbs, 82, Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, auxiliary bishop of Schwerin (1981–1994) and Hamburg (1994–2015). (born 1940)
* 4 January –
** Rosi Mittermaier, 72, ski racer (born 1950)
** Hans Rebele, 79, footballer (1860 Munich, West Germany national team).
* 5 January –
** Ruth Adler Schnee, 99, German-born American textile and interior designer.
** Renate Boy, 83, shot putter, Olympic silver medallist (1964).
* 6 January – Axel Troost, 68, politician, MP (2005–2017, 2021).
* 8 January – Siegfried Kurz, 92, conductor and composer.
* 9 January –
** Rainer Ulrich, 73, footballer (Karlsruher SC) and coach (SSV Ulm, VfR Mannheim).
** Thomas Kretschmer, 68, politician, member of the Landtag of Thuringia (1990–2008).
** Hermann-Josef Blanke, 65, academic and legal scholar.
* 10 January –
** Lothar Blumhagen, 95, film and voice actor.
** Hans Belting, 87, art historian.
* 11 January –
** Tatjana Patitz, 56, model and actress.
** Günther Deschner, 81, author and historian.
* 14 January –
** Matthias Carras, 58, pop singer.
** Carl Hahn, 96, automotive industry executive, chairman of Volkswagen Group (1982–1993).
** Hermann A. Schlögl, 85, actor and Egyptologist.
* 17 January – Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink, 81, footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen).
* 18 January – Clytus Gottwald, 97, composer, conductor and musicologist.
* 20 January – Hans Kasper, 84, politician, member of the Landtag of Saarland (1970–1999).
* 22 January – Bernd Uhl, 76, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Freiburg (2001–2018).
* 23 January – Inge Kaul, 78, economist.
* 25 January – Wolfgang Altenburg, 94, general, inspector general of the Bundeswehr (1983–1986) and chairman of the NATO Military Committee (1986–1989).
* 26 January – Sepp Dürr, 69, politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1998–2018).
* 27 January – Hellmut Mehnert, 94, internist and diabetologist.
* 29 January –
** Gerhard Moehring, 101, teacher and local historian.
** Gero Storjohann, 64, politician.
** Gerhard Woitzik, 95, politician.
*30 January – Gerald Mortag, 64, cyclist, Olympic silver medallist (1980).

February

*2 February –
**Solomon Perel, 97, German-born Israeli author and motivational speaker (''Europa Europa'').
** Caspar Richter, 78, conductor (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien).
*3 February –
**Andreas Gielchen, 58, footballer (1. FC Köln, Alemannia Aachen).
** Ismail Tipi, 64, Turkish-German politician, member of the Landtag of Hesse (since 2010).
*4 February – Jürgen Flimm, 81, theater director and manager (Salzburg Festival, Berlin State Opera).
*10 February – Hans Modrow, 95, politician
*16 February – Tim Lobinger, 50, pole vaulter
*16 February – Tony Marshall, 85, singer
*16 February – Gunnar Heinsohn, 79, author, sociologist and economist
*25 February – Corinna Miazga, 39, politician
*26 February – Günther von Lojewski, 87, journalist

March

*2 March – Mary Bauermeister, 89, artist
*4 March – Heinz Baumann, 95, actor
*5 March – Klaus-Michael Bonsack, 79, luger
*6 March – Traute Lafrenz, 103, resistance fighter
*6 March – Heinz Schwarz, 94, politician

References

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