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The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Germany.

Incumbents

Federal level

• President – Johannes Rau
• Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder

Events

• 9–20 February - 50th Berlin International Film Festival
• 18 February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000
• 27 February - Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2000
• 14 May - North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2000
• 25 July – Air France Flight 4590 crashes near Paris, France shortly after taking off, killing 109 people mostly Germans, and 4 on the ground.
• 2 October - German company ProSiebenSat.1 Media was founded.
• Date unknown: German company Mannesmann is taken over by British company Vodafone.
• Date unknown: Fusion of German company VEBA and German company VIAG [de] to German company E.ON

Popular culture

Sport

Births

• 1 December - Sophia Flörsch, racing driver^[1]

Deaths

• 4 January - Diether Krebs, German actor and comedian (born 1947)
• 7 January - Klaus Wennemann, German actor (born 1940)
• 8 January - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (born 1918)
• 11 March - Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (born 1912)
• 17 March - Harry Blum, German politician (born 1944)
• 10 April — Walter Stöhrer, German painter (born 1937)
• 21 May - Erich Mielke, German politician (born 1907)
• 22 May - Ernst-Dieter Lueg, journalist (born 1930)
• 21 August - Gustav Scholz, German boxer (born 1930)
• 2 October - Harald Wust, German general (born 1921)
• 20 October - Klaus Winter, German judge (born 1936)
• 15 October – Konrad Emil Bloch, biochemist (born 1912)
• 21 November Harald Leipnitz, German actor (born 1926)
• 12 December - Götz Friedrich, German opera and theatre director. (born 1930)
• 13 December -Erhard Krack, German politician (born 1931)
• 27 December - Mark Brandis (Nikolai von Michalewsky), journalist and science fiction author (born 1931)

See also

• 2000 in German television

References