Germany-related events during the year of 2010
Events in the year 2010 in Germany .
Deaths
January
1 January – Marlene Neubauer-Woerner , 91, German sculptor.[22] 1918 )
1 January – Freya von Moltke , 98, German World War II resistance fighter .[23] 1911 )
4 January – Ludwig Wilding , 82, German artist.[24] 1927 )
9 January – Franz-Hermann Brüner , 64, German head of OLAF , after long illness.[25] 1945 )
9 January – Diether Posser , 87, German politician.[26] 1922 )
14 January – Katharina Rutschky , 68, German educationalist and author.[27] 1941 )
14 January – Petra Schürmann , 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956 , after long illness.[28] 1933 )
15 January – Detlev Lauscher , 57, German footballer .[29] 1952 )
18 January – Günter Mielke , 67, German Olympic athlete.[30] 1942 )
30 January – Ruth Cohn , 97, German psychotherapist .[31] 1912 )
31 January – Erna Baumbauer , 91, German casting agent .[32] 1919 )
February
10 February – Michael Palme , 66, German sportswriter and host .[33]
12 February – Werner Krämer , 70, German footballer .[34] 1940 )
14 February – Rosa Rein , 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian .[35] 1897 )
16 February – Ino Kolbe , 95, German Esperanto expert.[36] 1914 )
17 February – Ines Paulke , 51, German rock and roll singer and songwriter, suicide.[37] 1958 )
18 February – Erwin Bachmann , 88, German Waffen-SS officer.[38] 1921 )
21 February – Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , 93, German politician.[39] 1917 )
23 February – Gerhardt Neef , 63, German footballer (Rangers ), throat cancer.[40] 1946 )
23 February – Henri Salmide , 90, German World War II naval officer , saved Bordeaux port from destruction.[41] 1919 )
27 February – David Bankier , 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.[42] 1947 )
March
5 March – Wolfgang Schenck , 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace .[43]
12 March – Hanna-Renate Laurien , 81, German politician.[44] 1928 )
14 March – Konrad Ruhland , 78, German musicologist .[45] 1932 )
20 March – Erwin Lehn , 90, German musician and conductor.[46] 1919 )
21 March – Wolfgang Wagner , 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival ), natural causes .[47] 1919 )
22 March – Emil Schulz , 71, German boxer .[48] 1938 )
25 March – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , 93, German political scientist .[49] 1916 )
27 March – Peter Herbolzheimer , 74, German jazz musician[50] 1935 )
30 March – Alfred Ambs , 87, German World War II flying ace .[51] 1923 )
30 March – Josef Homeyer , 80, German Roman Catholic prelate , Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004).[52] 1983 )
30 March – Martin Sandberger , 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator .[53] 1911 )
31 March - Ludwig Martin , German lawyer (born 1909 )
April
3 April – Ferdinand Simoneit , 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran .[54] 1925 )
4 April – Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke , 87, German mathematician and academic.[55] 1922 )
4 April – Erich Zenger , 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar .[56] 1939 )
5 April – Günther C. Kirchberger , 81, German academic and painter.[57] 1928 )
5 April – Gisela Trowe , 86, German actress.[58] 1922 )
6 April – Hans Schröder , 79, German sculptor and painter.[59] 1931 )
8 April – Andreas Kunze , 57, German actor, heart failure.[60] 1952 )
9 April – Gisela Karau , 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness.[61] 1932 )
10 April – Martin Ostwald , 88, German-born American classics scholar.[62] 1922 )
10 April – Manfred Reichert , 69, German footballer , after long illness.[63] 1940 )
11 April – Gerhard Geise , 80, German mathematician, after long illness.[64] 1930 )
11 April – Hans-Joachim Göring , 86, German footballer and coach.[65] 1923 )
11 April – Gert Haller , 65, German business manager , lobbyist and politician, after long illness.[66] 1944 )
11 April – Theodor Homann , 61, German footballer , heart failure.[67] 1948 )
11 April – Egon Hugenschmidt , 84, German jurist and politician.[68] 1925 )
12 April – Ambrosius Eßer , 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease .[69] 1933 )
12 April – Wolfgang Graßl , 40, German skier and coach, heart failure.[70] 1970 )
12 April – Werner Schroeter , 65, German film director, after long illness.[71] 1945 )
14 April – Stefan Schmitt , 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia .[72] 1963 )
15 April – Wilhelm Huxhorn , 54, German footballer , leukemia .[73] 1955 )
17 April – Josef W. Janker , 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran .[74] 1922 )
21 April – Manfred Kallenbach , 68, German footballer , heart failure.[75] 1942 )
24 April – Leo Löwenstein , 43, German racing driver , race accident .[76] 1966 )
24 April – Paul Schäfer , 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi army corporal, heart failure.[77] 1921 )
30 April – Paul Mayer , 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal .[78] 1911 )
May
3 May – Stefan Doernberg , 85, German writer and teacher.[79] 1924 )
3 May – Guenter Wendt , 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke.[80] 1923 )
4 May – Freddy Kottulinsky , 77, German-born Swedish racing driver [81] 1932 )
5 May – Alfons Kontarsky , 77, German pianist.[82] 1931 )
8 May – Peer Schmidt , 84, German actor, after long illness.[83] 1926 )
9 May – Karl-Heinz Schnibbe , 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter .[84] 1924 )
12 May – Dieter Bock , 71, German businessman and multimillionaire , choking .[85] 1938 )
12 May – Edith Keller-Herrmann , 88, German chess Grandmaster .[86] 1921 )
13 May – Walter Klimmek , 91, German footballer .[87] 1919 )
13 May – Klaus Kotter , 75, German bobsleigh official.[88] 1934 )
15 May – Christian Habicht , 57, German actor, heart attack.[89] 1952 )
17 May – Ludwig von Friedeburg , 85, German politician and sociologist , Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974).[90] 1924 )
17 May – Fritz Sennheiser , 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser .[91] 1912 )
23 May – Eva Ostwalt , 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor.[92] 1902 )
24 May – Anneliese Rothenberger , 83, German opera singer.[93] 1919 )
29 May – Paul Müller , 69, German biologist .[94] 1940 )
June
10 June – Sigmar Polke , 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.[95] 1941 )
12 June – Daisy D'ora , 97, German actress and socialite.[96] 1913 )
13 June – Ernest Fleischmann , 85, German-born American impresario , executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic .[97] 1924 )
15 June – Heidi Kabel , 95, German stage actress.[98] 1914 )
18 June – Hans Joachim Sewering , 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945).[99] 1916 )
19 June – Ursula Thiess , 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade [100] 1924 )
21 June – Wilfried Feldenkirchen , 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens ), car crash.[101] 1947 )
22 June – Marie-Luise Jahn , 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose .[102] 1918 )
22 June – Manfred Römbell , 68, German writer, after long illness.[103] 1941 )
23 June – Jörg Berger , 65, German football manager , bowel cancer .[104] 1944 )
23 June – Frank Giering , 38, German actor (Funny Games [105] 1971 )
28 June – Willie Huber , 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings ), heart attack.[106] 1958 )
July
2 July – Carl Adam Petri , 83, German computer scientist .[107] 1926 )
3 July – Kirsten Heisig , 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate , suicide.[108] 1961 )
3 July – Herbert Erhardt , 79, German footballer , FIFA World Cup winner 1954 [109] 1930 )
12 July – Günter Behnisch , 88, German architect.[110] 1922 )
22 July – Herbert Giersch , 89, German economist. (born 1921 )[33]
24 July – Theo Albrecht , 88, German entrepreneur and billionaire (Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's ).[111] 1922 )
25 July – Erich Steidtmann , 95, German Nazi SS officer .[112] 1914 )
30 July – Otto Joachim , 99, German-born Canadian violist and composer of electronic music .[113] 1910 )
August
5 August – Jürgen Oesten , 96, German U-boat commander during World War II .[114] 1913 )
7 August – Jürgen Thimme, 92, German archaeologist and U-boat commander, after long illness.[115] 1917 )
8 August – Bernhard Philberth , 83, German physicist , engineer, philosopher and theologian.[116] 1927 )
11 August – Bruno Schleinstein , 78, German actor.[117] 1932 )
12 August - Manfred Homberg , German boxer (born 1933 )
18 August – Maria Wachter , 100, German communist and resistance fighter , member of VVN .[118] 1910 )
18 August – Sepp Daxenberger , 48, German politician, bone marrow cancer .[119] 1962 )
19 August – Gerhard Beil , 84, East German politician.[120] 1926 )
21 August – Christoph Schlingensief , 49, German film and theatre director, lung cancer.[121] 1960 )
26 August – Walter Wolfrum , 87, German World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace .[122] 1923 )
September
October
November
5 November – Hajo Herrmann , 97, German Luftwaffe pilot (born 1913 )
6 November – Ezard Haußmann , 75, German actor (born 1935 )
15 November – Andreas Kirchner , 57, German Winter sportsman (born 1953 )
20 November:
26 November – Maria Hellwig , 90, German singer (born 1920 )
30 November – Peter Hofmann , 76, German singer (born 1944 )
December
7 December – Armin Weiss , 83, chemist and politician (born 1927 )
7 December – Arnold Weiss , 86, German-born American soldier (born 1924 )
15 December – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, 87, German sport journalist (born 1923 )
17 December – Mikhail Umansky , 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster (born 1952 )
20 December - Katharina Szelinski-Singer , 92, German sculptor (born 1918 ) 
