January • 5 January – Four people are killed and others are injured during a fire at a hospital in
Uelzen. • 8 January –
Farmers block highway access roads in parts of Germany, launching a week of protests against a government plan to remove tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. • 10 January –
Protests are held across Germany calling for a ban of
Alternative for Germany in the wake of the
2023 Potsdam far-right meeting. • 10–28 January –
2024 European Men's Handball Championship • 23 January • The
Federal Constitutional Court rules that the far-right minor party
Die Heimat (The Homeland), formerly the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), should not get state funding. • Germany announces that it will donate six
SH-3 Sea King helicopters to the
Ukrainian Air Force to help it patrol the
Black Sea.
February • 2 February – In the
Bundestag, left wing MPs reorganise into the new
BSW group and
The Left group. • 8–11 February –
2024 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship in Berlin • 14 February – Following protests and blockades by farmers,
Alliance 90/The Greens cancels their annual event for
Ash Wednesday due to security concerns. • 23 February – The
Bundestag legalises recreational usage of
cannabis for adults, making Germany the third European country to do so after Luxembourg and Malta.
March • 1 March – A
soldier kills four people during a
spree shooting in
Scheeßel and
Bothel in
Lower Saxony before being detained. • 4 March • Four people are killed and 21 others are injured in a fire at a
nursing home in
Bedburg-Hau,
North Rhine-Westphalia. •
German police surround
Luisenhospital in
Aachen after an armed woman barricades herself inside a room. The woman is later arrested. • 19 March – Austrian far-right political activist, and leader of the
Identitarian Movement of Austria Martin Sellner is banned from entering Germany for three years. • 22 March – The
Bundesrat approves a partial legalization of
cannabis in Germany, set to come into effect on 1 April. • 27 March – At least five people are killed and 20 more injured after a
double-decker FlixBus overturns and falls near
Leipzig.
April • 14 April – In
association football,
Bayer 04 Leverkusen win their first
Bundesliga title. • 18 April – Two German-Russian nationals are arrested for an alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of
Russia in an effort to undermine military support for
Ukraine. • 27 April – More than 1,000 Islamists protest in
Hamburg for a
Caliphate and
Sharia law in Germany.
May • 4 May – Member of the
European Parliament Matthias Ecke is "seriously injured" following what is suspected to be a politically motivated attack in
Dresden. • 7 May – Deputy mayor of
Berlin Franziska Giffey is injured after being bludgeoned with a bag containing a heavy item. • 10 May – 800 protesters storm the
Tesla plant in
Grünheide in protest of the company's expansion's impact on the environment. • 13 May – A high court in
Münster upholds the designation and surveillance of the
Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a "suspected" far-right extremist organization. • 14 May –
Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD in
Thuringia is fined by a court for using the Nazi slogan "Everything for Germany". • 16 May – Three people are killed in a fire at a residential building in
Düsseldorf. • 21 May • The trial for members of the
Reichsbürger movement involved in the
2022 German coup d'état plot begins in
Frankfurt. •
Jenny Erpenbeck wins the
International Booker Prize for her novel
Kairos, translated from the German by
Michael Hofmann. • 22 May – The AfD bans
Maximilian Krah, its leading candidate in the European parliament elections, from further activities due to his comments defending members of the
Schutzstaffel. • 23 May – The AfD is expelled from the
Identity and Democracy grouping in the
European Parliament in response to Maximilian Krah's comments on the Schutzstaffel. • 24 May – Two people are arrested on suspicion of plotting a knife attack on a
synagogue in
Heidelberg. • 27 May – A court in Düsseldorf convicts and sentences a
Bundeswehr captain to 3.5 years imprisonment for spying for Russia. • 31 May –
2024 Mannheim stabbing: A police officer is killed while five people, including far-right activist
Michael Stürzenberger, are injured in a knife attack in
Mannheim. The suspected attacker, identified as a 25-year-old
Afghan refugee named Sulaiman A., is shot and injured by police.
June • 1–5 June – At least six people are killed during floods in
Bavaria and
Baden-Württemberg. • 1 June – A long-distance train carrying 185 passengers derails after the ground under a section of railway gives way near
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baden-Württemberg. No injuries are reported. • 4 June – An AfD candidate for state elections in Baden-Württemberg is injured in a stabbing attack in Mannheim. • 6 June – A group of protesters on their way to an antifascist demonstration are attacked by a group of 15-20 alleged
neo-Nazis at
Berlin Ostkreuz. Two people are hospitalised due to head injuries. • 9 June •
2024 European Parliament election in Germany: Conservative parties retain their plurality in the German contingent of the
European Parliament. The AfD prevails in all five former
East German states. •
2024 Hamburg borough elections • 14 June • One person is killed and three others are injured in a stabbing attack in
Wolmirstedt,
Saxony-Anhalt. The attacker is shot dead by police. • Germany vetoes a
European Union sanction package that would prevent EU members from re-exporting Russian
liquefied natural gas from EU ports and prevent EU companies from selling sanctioned products to Russia. • 16 June – One person is injured after being shot by police on suspicion of threatening them with a pickaxe and an incendiary device in
Hamburg. • 17 June – Authorities announce the largest seizure of
cocaine in Germany following raids in
Düsseldorf and
Hamburg in 2023 that yield 60.5 metric tons of the substance valued at 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion). • 19 June – An Iraqi national is arrested in
Esslingen am Neckar on suspicion of plotting to carry out attacks for
Islamic State. • 23 June – A police officer is killed in a collision involving a car and a motorcycle escort of visiting Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban in
Stuttgart. • 24 June – The
AFD announces a local coalition with neofascist party
Die Heimat in
Lauchhammer,
Brandenburg. • 26 June – Government ministers agree on legislation to expedite
deportation for individuals who post or "
like"
social media content that celebrates or promotes terrorist acts. • 28 June – The
Higher Regional Court of Cologne convicts a 15-year old boy of plotting to attack a Christmas market in
Leverkusen with Islamic extremist motivations and sentences him to four years' imprisonment. • 28 June – 23 year old antifascist activist Maja T. is ordered extradited to Hungary to face trial on charges of membership in a criminal organisation that wanted to attack
right-wing extremist by a court in Berlin despite concerns over her safety as a genderqueer person in Hungary and despite an ongoing expedited procedure by the
Federal Constitutional Court. • 29 June – Over 100,000 protesters and 1,000
police officers clash at an
AfD party conference in
Essen.
July • 1 July –
Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD in
Thuringia is fined by a court in
Halle for again using the Nazi slogan "Everything for Germany". This is the second time fine on Höcke for the slogan. • 3 July – Investigators in Germany and
Sweden arrest eight suspects allied with Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in
Syria. • 4 July – Germany summons
Turkey's ambassador in
Berlin in a tit-for-tat move over footballer
Merih Demiral's
wolf salute gesture while celebrating a goal at the
UEFA Euro 2024. • 5 July – The
Cabinet of Germany agrees on a 2025
budget plan, averting collapse of the current cabinet following party disagreements and pressure from
The Greens to forego its "
debt brake" to increase emergency borrowing for
military aid to Ukraine. • 11 July –
CNN reports that
American and
German intelligence foiled a Russian plot to assassinate
Armin Papperger, the CEO of defence company
Rheinmetall. • 14 July • Two people are killed and two others injured during a
mass shooting believed to be connected to a domestic dispute at a home in
Lautlingen,
Baden-Württemberg. The gunman commits suicide. • The
UEFA Euro 2024 final takes place in
Berlin, with
Spain winning 2-1 over
England. • A Lebanese national is arrested in
Salzgitter on suspicion of procuring drone components for
Hezbollah. • 15 July –
NATO establishes a new command centre in
Wiesbaden to plan and coordinate support for the
Ukrainian military as part of the
NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine. • 16 July – Interior minister
Nancy Faeser orders the banning of the magazine
Compact, its publisher Compact-Magazin GmbH, and the film production company Conspect Film for promoting extremist right-wing views and inciting violence against Jews and migrants. • 17 July • A court in
Stuttgart convicts a dual Russian-German national of violating export laws by delivering electronic components to Russian firms involved in the production of military equipment from 2020 to 2023 and sentences him to six years and nine months' imprisonment. • Germany issues plans to halve its
military aid to Ukraine in 2025. • 19 July – The
Minsk Regional Court in
Belarus, in a secretive trial, sentences German national
Rico Krieger to death over alleged crimes including terrorism and
mercenary activity. He is pardoned on 30 July by President
Alexander Lukashenko. • 20 July – Demonstrators carrying
Afghan flags storm the Pakistani consulate in
Frankfurt. • 21 July – A climber is killed after being struck by lightning on the
Zugspitze. • 22 July – The
Constitutional Court of North Rhine-Westphalia rules that there is no longer a general danger to civilians fleeing from the
Syrian Civil War in its rejection of an asylum application. • 24 July – The Federal Interior Ministry orders the banning of the
Islamic Centre Hamburg for being an "Islamist extremist organisation" with links to
Hezbollah and Iran.
August • 2 August – Twenty-two people are injured in an explosion believed to have been caused by a compressed air canister at the
Nürburgring race track. • 6 August • At least two people are killed after a hotel collapses in
Kröv. • A court in
Berlin convicts a woman and fines her for "condoning a crime" by leading a chant using the phrase "
From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free" during a protest in October 2023. • 7 August – A doctor in Berlin is arrested on suspicion of killing four of his elderly patients and setting fire to their residences. • 14 August • A court in Germany orders the arrest of a Ukrainian diving instructor on suspicion of involvement in the
2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. • A suspected sabotage attack is reported at the Wahn barracks of the
German Air Force adjacent to
Cologne Bonn Airport. • 15 August • Ukraine denies its involvement in explosions that damaged the
Nord Stream 2 pipeline and accuses Russia of causing the explosions, following Germany issuing its first
arrest warrant on the case towards a
Ukrainian man. • The United States approves the sale of 600
MIM-104 Patriot air defense missile systems to Germany worth US$5 billion (
€4.6 billion) to improve German national defense and the overall security of
NATO. •
New Zealand extradites German hacker and
Megaupload founder
Kim Dotcom to the United States to face charges for
computer fraud,
cyber espionage, and
embezzlement. • 17 August • Germany issues an indefinite ban on requesting or providing new
military aid to Ukraine that has not already been approved in order to reduce
federal budget spending. The
moratorium results in a "tangible dispute" within the
Scholz coalition government. • Four convicts escape in a prison break at a
psychiatric hospital in
Straubing,
Bavaria. • 18 August – Twenty-three people are injured in a fire on a Ferris wheel installed during the
Highfield Festival in
Leipzig. • 20 August – Following the ordered closure of the
Islamic Centre Hamburg in
Hamburg, Iran orders the closure of two branches of a
German language school in
Tehran for "breaching Iranian law, committing various illegal actions and extensive financial violations." In response, Germany summons the
Iranian ambassador. • 23 August –
2024 Solingen stabbing: Three people are killed and eight others are wounded after a
mass stabbing at a festival in
Solingen marking the 650th anniversary of the city. A 26-year old man confesses to the killings after surrendering on 25 August. • 26 August – Germany announces that it will donate 100,000 doses of
mpox vaccines to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and other
African nations, as well as provide funding to the
GAVI Vaccine Alliance through the
World Health Organization. • 27 August – A 26-year old man armed with two knives is shot dead by police after threatening civilians in
Moers. • 29 August – The
government of Hamburg expels the
Iranian leader of the
Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving him an 11 September deadline to leave the country or face
deportation. • 30 August • Germany carries out its first deportation of Afghan nationals convicted of crimes since the
Taliban takeover in 2021. • Six people are wounded in a
stabbing attack on a bus in
Siegen,
North Rhine-Westphalia.
September • 1 September – Two Eastern states vote in state elections. •
2024 Saxony state election: The CDU wins a plurality in elections for the
Landtag of Saxony. The AfD finishes a close second. • 5 September –
2024 Munich shooting: An armed person is shot dead by police in
Munich near the
Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the
Israeli consulate. • 9 September – The German government announces border restrictions on all its national land borders, including those with other
European Union members, for at least six months to combat
irregular migration from
asylum seekers. • 12 September – A suspected Islamic extremist is arrested in Munich on suspicion of plotting attacks against German soldiers. • 13 September – Germany and
Kenya agree on a labour migration deal which will see 250,000
skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers go work in Germany amid a shortage of skilled labour in the
German economy. The agreement will also simplify the return of
illegal migrants to Kenya. • 21 September – A previously unknown piece composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Ganz kleine Nachtmusik, is discovered at a library in
Leipzig. The seven miniature movements for a
string trio were probably composed in the 1760s, when Mozart was in his early teens. • 22 September –
2024 Brandenburg state election: The SPD remains the largest party in the
Landtag of Brandenburg, while the AfD finishes a close second with 29.2%. • 23 September – Police announce that they found 95 kg (209 lb) of
cocaine worth
€7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside
banana crates in
supermarkets across
North Rhine-Westphalia. • 24 September–
Jörg Dornau, a lawmaker for the AfD in
Saxony, is revealed to be using Belarusian political prisoners as labour by independent Belarusian news outlet Reform.news. • 25 September – The joint leaders of
Alliance 90/The Greens,
Omid Nouripour and
Ricarda Lang, state that they will step down following significant election defeats. • 28 September – Thirty people are injured in a series of arson and vehicle-ramming attacks in
Essen. The suspect, a Syrian national, is arrested.
October • 1 October •
IBM's first
quantum data centre in Europe is opened in
Ehningen. • A Chinese national is arrested in
Leipzig on suspicion of spying on
Leipzig/Halle Airport for Chinese intelligence and passing information to an aide of AfD lawmaker
Maximilian Krah. • 11 October • The oil tanker
Annika catches fire in the
Baltic Sea while sailing in an area between
Kühlungsborn and
Warnemünde. All seven crew on board are rescued, while the ship is towed to
Rostock. • U.S. Airman Grant Harrison was found not guilty in the 2023
killing of Michael Ovsjannikov in
Wittlich. • 14 October – A court in Berlin sentences a former
Stasi officer identified as 80-year old Martin Manfred N to ten years' imprisonment for shooting Polish
Cold War defector
Czesław Kukuczka along the
Berlin Wall in 1974. • 19 October – A Libyan national is arrested in
Bernau bei Berlin on suspicion of plotting a gun attack on the Israeli embassy on behalf of
Islamic State. • 22 October – The first case of clade 1b
mpox in Germany is discovered in a patient who had travelled abroad. • 27 October –
Jamshid Sharmahd, a dissident carrying dual Iranian and German citizenship, is executed by Iran for allegedly leading a US-based
pro-monarchist group and terrorism, prompting the German government to recall its ambassador to Tehran on 29 October and close all three consulates of Iran in Germany on 31 October.
November • 1 November – The Self-Determination Act, allowing people aged 18 and older to change official records to alter their names and genders or have the gender marker removed altogether, comes into effect. • 5 November – Eight people are arrested on suspicion of plotting an illegal seizure of power in
Saxony as part of the far-right militant group (Saxonian Separatists). • 7 November • Chancellor Scholz dismisses
FDP leader
Christian Lindner from his position as finance minister, leading to two other FDP ministers resigning and the collapse of the governing coalition. • An American resident of
Frankfurt and former employee of the
US Armed Forces in Germany is arrested on suspicion of spying for China. • 18 November – A section of the
C-Lion1 submarine communications cable running under the
Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is severed off the Swedish coast in what German authorities suspect as an act of sabotage. • 26 November – A person is arrested in
Koblenz on suspicion of plotting pipe bomb attacks on behalf of Islamic State. • 29 November –
Bijan Djir-Sarai resigns as general secretary of the FDP amid controversy over the party's departure from the governing coalition.
December • 4 December – One person is killed in a crossbow attack inside a hospital in
Bad Zwesten. The suspect is arrested. • 8 December – Three people from
Mannheim and
Hesse are arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on behalf of Islamic State. • 9 December – The
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees suspends the processing of asylum requests from 47,770 Syrian nationals in response to the
fall of the Assad regime in Syria. • 16 December – Chancellor
Olaf Scholz loses a
no-confidence vote in the
Bundestag. • 19 December – The
Bundestag votes to require a two-thirds majority from its members to approve measures regarding the operations of the
Federal Constitutional Court as part of efforts to safeguard the judiciary against possible authoritarian interventions. • 20 December –
2024 Magdeburg car attack: A car drives into a crowd at a Christmas market in
Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring at least 205. The suspected perpetrator, a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia, is arrested. • 27 December – President
Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolves the 20th Bundestag. • 28 December –
Elon Musk published an opinion piece supporting the
Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German newspaper
Welt am Sonntag. • 31 December – Two people are injured in a knife attack in
Charlottenburg,
Berlin. A Syrian national carrying Swedish residency is arrested. ==Holidays==