2000 in Germany

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. • 30 July - 2000 German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring • 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 to German company E.ON ==Sport==

• 2000 Betty Barclay Cup • 2000 Faber Grand Prix • 2000 FIRA Women's European Championship • 2000 Sparkassen Cup (tennis) • 2000 WTA German Open • 2000 German F1 Grand Prix ==Births==

• 1 December - Sophia Flörsch, racing driver ==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 September - Heinz Harmel, German SS officer (born 1906) • 6 September - Fritz Ruchay, German football player and manager (born 1909) • 29 September – Walter Dieminger, German space scientist (born 1907) • 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==