Events in the year 2014 in Germany. Incumbents Federal level President: Joachim Gauck Chancellor: Angela Merkel State level Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Winfried Kretschmann Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit Minister-President of Brandenburg – Dietmar Woidke Mayor of Bremen – Jens Boehrnsen Mayor of Hamburg – Olaf Scholz Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering Minister-President of Niedersachsen – Stephan Weil Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Malu Dreyer Minister-President of Saarland – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt – Reiner Haseloff Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Torsten Albig Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht Events January January – Bavarian Film Awards in Munich January - German Snooker Masters in Berlin 6 January - 100th birthday of German art dealer Heinz Berggruen 28–1 January, 200th deathday of German king Karl der Große 29 January - 200th deathday of German philosoph Johann Gottlieb Fichte February 6 to 16 February – 64th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin February - Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 March March – CeBIT in Hanover March – ITB Berlin in Berlin March – Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig 7 March - 300th year of Treaty of Rastatt April April – Hanover Messe in Hanover April – Deutscher Filmpreis in Berlin May 24 May - 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer June June – Kiel Week in Kiel July 13 July - The Germany national team becomes world champion in Brazil. 18 July - 4 Germans are confirmed as among the 300 people on board killed in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 with 193 Dutch nationals in Eastern Ukraine near Russian border. 26 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships 28 July - 100th year of start World War I August August – Hanse Sail in Rostock 13 to 24 August - 2014 European Aquatics Championships 27 August - 100th birthday of German actress Heidi Kabel August- September – Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in Berlin September September – ILA Berlin Air Show in Berlin September – Gamescom in Cologne September – photokina 2014 in Cologne September – Frankfurt Motor Show in Frankfurt 26 September - 100th deathday of German painter August Macke September - October – Oktoberfest in Munich October October – Frankfurt Book Fair November 5 November - 600th year of start of Council of Constance Deaths