The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Germany.
Incumbents
President: Joachim Gauck
Chancellor: Angela Merkel
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. 21 January - Lutz Bachmann resigns as chairman of the anti-Islamic Pegida movement. As of 9 April, the position is still vacant.
February
5–15 February - 65th Berlin International Film Festival
15 February: Hamburg state election, 2015 in Hamburg
March
March - German company Dr Oetker buys German company Coppenrath & Wiese
5 March - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
24 March - The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads to widespread media coverage and public attention in Germany. 72 Germans die aboard the German machine that was intentionally crashed by its German co-pilot. March – CeBIT in Hanover March – ITB Berlin in Berlin March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig
April
April – Hanover Messe in Hanover
April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin
May
10 May - Bremen state election, 2015 in Bremen
June
7–8 June – 41st G7 summit was held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria. June – Kiel Week in Kiel 29 June – A robot grabbed a man at a Volkswagen production plant in Baunatal and crushed him to death against a metal plate. Prosecutors considered bringing charges after the incident.
August
August – Hanse Sail in Rostock
August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin
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. September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich
October
October – Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt
November
November - German company Merck Group buys American company Sigma-Aldrich
November - Japanese company Hitachi Koki buys German company Metabo
December
31 December – New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
Date unknown: In 2015 the German company Coppenrath & Wiese was acquired by German company Dr. Oetker.
Deaths
1 January: Ulrich Beck (70), German sociologist (born 1944) 7 January: Diether Kressel (89), German painter (born 1925) 8 January: Hubert Markl (77), German biologist (born 1938) 20 January: Edgar Froese (71), German artist and electronic music pioneer (born 1944) 25 January - Ernst Träger, German judge (born 1926) 31 January: Udo Lattek (79), German football player, coach, and TV pundit (born 1935) 31 January: Richard von Weizsäcker (94), German politician (born 1920) 18 February: Hans F. Zacher, German jurist (born 1928) 26 February: Heinrich Windelen (93), German politician (born 1921) 26 February: Fritz J. Raddatz (83), German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier (born 1931) 1 March: Chris Welp (51), German professional basketball player (born 1964) 1 March: Wolfram Wuttke (53), German footballer (born 1961) 5 March: Karina Kraushaar, German actress (born 1971) 9 March: Frei Otto (90), German architect (born 1925) 26 March: Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (born 1924) 30 March: Helmut Dietl (70), German film director and author (born 1944) 31 March: Klaus Tschira (74), German entrepreneur (born 1940)