2015_in_Germany

2015 in Germany

2015 in Germany

List of events

The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany.

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Incumbents

Events

January

  • 1 January - The 'Mindestlohngesetz' (German Minimum Wage Law) comes into effect: Most jobs now have to receive €8.50 per hour as a minimum wage.
  • 11 January - An arson attack on the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published Charlie Hebdo cartoons, leads to two arrests.[1]
  • 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant.

February

March

April

May

June

August

September

  • September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin
  • September – Gamescom in Cologne
  • September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt
  • 30 September – Alex Springer Media Group is ordered to pay €635,000 compensation for damages for pain and suffering to journalist and weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann following their reporting of a case in which he was falsely accused of rape. The award was a record sum for such as case, though later reduced to €395,000 on appeal.[4]
  • September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich

October

November

December

Deaths

Richard von Weizsäcker
Günter Grass
Helmut Schmidt

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "India Today". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Germany to hold 2015 G8 summit at Alpine spa". AP. 23 January 2014.
  3. [3]
    Robot kills worker at Volkswagen plant in Germany Archived 7 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, 2015-07-01.
  4. [4]
    "'Bild' publisher ordered to pay 'record sum' to Kachelmann | DW | 30.09.2015". Deutsche Welle.
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