5 January – Four people are killed and others are injured during a fire at a hospital in Uelzen.[1]
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.[2]
14 February - Following aggressive protests and blockades by farmers, the green party cancels their an annual event for ash Wednesday due to security concerns.[13]
23 February – The Bundestag legalises recreational usage of cannabis for adults, making Germany the third European country to do so after Luxembourg and Malta.[14]
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.[23]
7 May – Deputy mayor of BerlinFranziska Giffey is injured after being bludgeoned with a bag containing a heavy item.[28]
10 May – 800 protesters storm the Tesla plant in Grünheide in protest of the company's expansion's impact on the environment.[29]
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.[30]
14 May – Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD in Thuringia is fined by a court for using the Nazi slogan "Everything for Germany".[31][32][33]
16 May – Three people are killed in a fire at a residential building in Dusseldorf.[34]
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.[37]
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.[46]
4 June – An AfD candidate for state elections in Baden-Württemberg is injured in a stabbing attack in Mannheim.[47]
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.[48][49]
One person is killed and three others are injured in a stabbing attack in Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt. The attacker is shot dead by police.[52]
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.[53]
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.[54]
17 June – Authorities announce the largest seizure of cocaine in Germany following raids in Dusseldorf and Hamburg in 2023 that yield 60.5 metric tons of the substance valued at 2.6 billion euros ($2.78 billion).[55]
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.[57]
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.[59]
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.[60]
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.[61]
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".[63] 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.[64]
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.[68]
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.[72]
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.[73]
Germany issues plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025.[74]
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.[75] He is pardoned on 30 July by President Alexander Lukashenko.[76]
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.[80]
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.[81]
6 August –
At least two people are killed after a hotel collapses in Kröv.[82]
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.[83]
7 August – A doctor in Berlin is arrested on suspicion of killing four of his elderly patients and setting fire to their residences.[84]
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.[87]
The United States approves the sale of 600 MIM-104 Patriotair defense missile systems to Germany worth US$5 billion (€4.6 billion) to improve German national defense and the overall security of NATO.[88]
17 August – Twenty-three people are injured in a fire on a Ferris wheel installed during the Highfield Festival in Leipzig.[92]
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.[93]
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.[94]
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.[102]
12 September – A suspected Islamic extremist is arrested in Munich on suspicion of plotting attacks against German soldiers.[103]
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.[104]
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.[108]
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.[113]
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.[114]
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.[115]
22 October – The first case of clade 1b mpox in Germany is discovered in a patient who had travelled abroad.[116]
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,[117] prompting the German government to recall its ambassador to Tehran on 29 October[118] and close all three consulates of Iran in Germany on 31 October.[119]
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.[120]
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 Sächsische Separatisten.[121]
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.[122]
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.[124]
^The President of the Bundesrat, the speaker of the Bundesrat, a federal legislative chamber, in which the governments of the sixteen German states are represented. The president of the Bundesrat is ex officio also deputy to the President of Germany (Basic Law, Article 57), thus becomes first in the order, while acting on behalf of the President or while acting as head of state during a vacancy of the presidency.