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Events in the year2007 inGermany.

• President –Horst Köhler
• Chancellor –Angela Merkel

• Minister-President ofBaden-Württemberg –Günther Oettinger
• Minister-President of Bavaria –Edmund Stoiber to 30 September,Günther Beckstein
• Governing mayor of Berlin –Klaus Wowereit
• First mayor of Bremen –Jens Böhrnsen
• Minister-President of Brandenburg –Matthias Platzeck
• First mayor of Hamburg –Ole von Beust
• Minister-President ofHesse –Roland Koch
• Minister-President ofLower Saxony –Christian Wulff
• Minister-President ofMecklenburg-Vorpommern –Harald Ringstorff
• Minister-President ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia –Jürgen Rüttgers
• Minister-President ofRhineland-Palatinate –Kurt Beck
• Minister-President of theSaarland –Peter Müller
• Minister-President ofSaxony –Georg Milbradt
• Minister-President ofSaxony-Anhalt –Wolfgang Böhmer
• Minister-President ofSchleswig-Holstein –Peter Harry Carstensen
• Minister-President ofThuringia –Dieter Althaus

• 1 January - Germany assumes presidency of theG8 for the year andpresidency of the Council of the European Union for six months.
• 1 January -Value added tax is raised from 16% to 19%.
• 1 January -BenQ-Siemens inMunich declaresinsolvency.
• 5 January -Mounir El Motassadeq was sentenced inHamburg to 15 years prison for his involvement in theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks.
• 8 January - Russian oil supplies to Germany, Poland, and Ukraine are cut for three days as part of theRussia-Belarus energy dispute.
• 18 January - Following in-party pressure,Edmund Stoiber announces his resignation asMinister-President of Bavaria and chairman of theCSU, effective on 30 September.^[1]
• 18 January -Hurricane Kyrill, the worst storm to hit Germany since 1999, kills 13 in Germany and at least 31 in the rest of Western Europe.
• 2 February - Thefederal parliament passes a reform inhealth insurance, making insurance compulsory for all German citizens.
• 8 March -Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
• 9 March - The nationalretirement age is raised to 67.
• 9 March -War in Afghanistan: Thefederal parliament approves the deployment ofPanavia Tornados toAfghanistan. Threats against Germany byAl-Qaeda soon follow.
• 25 March - In Berlin, 27 European ministers celebrate the 50th anniversary of theTreaty of Rome.
• 11 April - InBeirut, the trial begins for one of the Lebanese perpetrators of the2006 German train bombing plot.
• 12 April - ATornado fighter jet of the German air force (Luftwaffe) collides with a rock face in the SwissBernese Oberland. One pilot ejects to safety, one dies.
• 13 April -Günther Oettinger, Minister-President ofBaden-Württemberg, creates controversy with his eulogy of predecessorHans Filbinger. Oettinger describes Filbinger as an opponent of the Nazi regime, although Filbinger was a member of theNazi party and his true role during the war is still disputed.
• 7 May - PresidentHorst Köhler rejects a request to pardonRed Army Faction terroristChristian Klar, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of bankerJürgen Ponto
• 13 May -State election in Bremen - TheSPD andCDU, who have governed Bremen since 1995 in agrand coalition underJens Böhrnsen (SPD), both suffer losses although the SPD remains the strongest party.The Left Party.PDS enjoy their first success in a western German state with enough votes to enter theSenate of Bremen. After two months of negotiations, ared-green alliance (SPD and Greens) is established.
• 14 May - The Stuttgart-based car manufacturerDaimlerChrysler sells its American daughter companyChrysler for 5500 million euros, ending a 10-year union. After the demerger, DaimlerChrysler is renamed toDaimler AG.
• 24 May - CyclistErik Zabel confesses todoping withEPO for at least one week during the1996 Tour de France, only to stop due to the adverse effects of the drugs on his health. At this same press conference,Rolf Aldag also confesses to long-term EPO use.
• 1 June - TheDAX exceeds 8000 points for the first time in eight years.
• 6–8 June -33rd G8 summit inHeiligendamm,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• 16 June -The Left Party.PDS and theWASG fuse to form theLeft Party.
• 16 June - 23 September:documenta 12
• 1 September - The firstExtra Mile Endurathon in Berlin.
• 21 December - Border controls with Germany's eastern neighbours are removed as the Czech Republic, Poland and seven other countries join theSchengen border-free zone. The only remaining German border with border controls is that with Switzerland.
• Date unknown:Volkswagen AG gained ownership of Swedish companyScania by first buying Volvo's stake in 2000, after the latter's aborted takeover attempt, increasing it to 36.4% in the first quarter 2007.

• 22 FebruaryLothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b.1918).

• 8-18 February -57th Berlin International Film Festival
• 25 February -The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) wins the2006 Academy Award forBest Foreign Language Film.

• 4 February -Handball -Germany wins the2007 World Men's Handball Championship held in Germany, defeatingPoland in the final inCologne.
• 18 February -Indoor field hockey -Germany wins the2007 World Indoor Field Hockey Championship held inVienna, Austria, defeatingPoland in the final and defend their title. Thewomen's team - also the previous champions - take third place.
• 20 February -Ice hockey - TheAdler Mannheim win theDeutscher Eishockey-Pokal.
• 31 March -Boxing -Henry Maske returns to the ring after an 11-year absence to avenge his only professional defeat, beatingVirgil Hill after 12 rounds by unanimous decision. Immediately after the bout, Maske announces his final retirement.
• 8 April -Curling -Germany take second place at the2007 Ford World Men's Curling Championship inEdmonton, Canada, losing to the host nation in the final.
• 17 April -Ice hockey - TheAdler Mannheim win theDeutsche Eishockey Liga for the sixth time, becoming the first team to win both the league and cup titles in a single season.
• 22 April -Handball -HSV Hamburg wins theEHF Cup Winner's Cup final againstCB Ademar León.
• 29 April -Handball -THW Kiel wins the all-German final of theEHF Champions League againstSG Flensburg-Handewitt.SC Magdeburg wins theEHF Cup final againstCAI BM Aragón.
• 5 May -Volleyball -VfB Friedrichshafen becomeGerman volleyball champions for the seventh time.
• 12 May -Rugby -RG Heidelberg wins the final of theRugby-Bundesliga.
• 19 May -Football -VfB Stuttgart wins the2006–07 season of theBundesliga for the fifth time.
• 28 May -Field hockey -Crefelder HTC wins theEuroHockey Club Champions Cup for the first time.
• 2 June -Handball -THW Kiel becomenational handball champions for a record 13th time.
• 26 June -Basketball - TheBrose Baskets fromBamberg becomeGerman champions in theBasketball Bundesliga for the second time.
• 1 July -American football - TheMarburg Mercenaries are defeated by theDodge Vikings Vienna in theEurobowl.
• 8 July -Field hockey -Der Club and der Alster inHamburg becomeGerman field hockey champions for the fifth time.
• 24 August to 2 September -2007 World Championships in Athletics inOsaka, Japan. Germany finishes fifth on the overall medal tally.
• 30 September -Football -Germany wins the2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in Shanghai, China, defeatingBrazil and not surrendering a single goal during the tournament. The German team becomes the first women's team to win two consecutive titles.
• 21 October -Handball -THW Kiel wins theEHF Men's Champions Trophy, defeatingCelje Pivovarna Laško in the final, completing the most successful year in the club's history (EHF Champions League, national champions, EHF Champions Trophy). Two other German teams —HSV Hamburg andSC Magdeburg — take third and fourth place.
• 16 December -Handball -Germany takes third place in the2007 World Women's Handball Championship held in France, defeatingRomania in Paris.

• 26 March -Prince Moritz of Hesse

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• 16 January -Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (born1916)
• 27 January -Herbert Reinecker, German dramatist and screenwriter (born1914)
• 9 February -Reinhart Hummel, German theologian (born1930)
• 22 February -Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author, painter, and art collector (born1918)
• 27 February –Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German army officer (born1914)^[2]
• 28 February -Egon Monk, German film director and writer (born1927)
• 1 April -Hans Filbinger, jurist and politician (born1913)
• 13 April -Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistance fighter (born1904)
• 22 April -Karl Holzamer, German philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of the German television station ZDF (born1906)
• 28 April -Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (born1912)
• 19 May -Hans Wollschläger, German writer (born1935)
• 28 May —Jörg Immendorff, German painter (born1945)
• 2 June -Wolfgang Hilbig, German author (born1941)
• 19 June -Klausjürgen Wussow, actor (born1929)
• 22 June -Bernd Becher, photographer (born1931)
• 26 June -Jupp Derwall, footballer and coach (born1927)
• 1 July -Gottfried von Bismarck, aristocrat and socialite (born1962)
• 4 July -Liane Bahler, cyclist (born1982)
• 22 July -Ulrich Mühe, actor (born1953)
• 23 July -Ernst Otto Fischer, chemist,Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born1918)
• 6 August (approximate date) -Heinz Barth, German war criminal (born1920)
• 11 August -Wolf Hilbertz, German futurist architect, inventor, and marine scientist (born1938)
• 25 August -Hansjörg Felmy, actor (born1931)
• 21 September -Jürgen Roland, German film director (born1925)
• 5 October -Walter Kempowski, German writer (born1929)
• 17 October -Rüdiger von Wechmar, German diplomat (born1923)
• 28 October -Evelyn Hamann, actress and comedian (born1942)
• 28 November -Elly Beinhorn, pilot (born1907)
• 5 December -Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer (born1928)

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