📰 Breaking News: News Archive for March 2009 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 March
- Victims deliver alleged fraudster to police
- CeBIT fair promises green tech despite economic slump
- German students increasingly unpolitical and reactionary
- Siegfried and Roy take to stage with tiger for last hurrah
- Freelancers could lose 400,000 jobs during recession
- State workers get wage increase while VW cuts 16,500 jobs
02 March
- Coach Klinsmann says Bayern played 'without urgency'
- Economic crisis encourages Germans to mind their manners
- Car dealers offering record discounts
- Bavarian brewers strike
- New online e-book platform to offer 100,000 German titles
- IT sector grows despite recession
- Germany gives €150 million to rebuild Gaza
- Junk-car bonus inspires other sectors to offer trade-ins
- Rostock politician demands DNA dog poop testing
- Opel makes case for German bailout
- Premier Althaus faces manslaughter charge
- VW targets market share during crisis
03 March
- Mysterious night explosion kills two in Munich apartment
- Opel crisis puts Merkel in a predicament
- Google Earth launches 3D Berlin project
- Brandenburg cops might get spy-style gyrocopter
- Schwarzenegger tells CeBIT fair that only 'losers whine'
- Bayer slammed by global downturn
- Smiling while you eat
- Farting underwater creatures release greenhouse gases
- Filthy Berlin locales named and shamed
- German navy captures pirates off Somalia
- Auto sales surge on junk car premium
- High court kyboshes e-voting
- Althaus fined for negligent homicide
- 3 missing after Cologne archive collapses
04 March
- Adidas warns of difficult times after posting 2008 profit
- Steinbach forgoes board spot on German-Polish memorial project
- Opel cutting jobs as Merkel says the car maker isn't 'relevant'
- Cologne mayor says continuing metro work 'almost irresponsible'
- Machine tool orders continue plunge
- Mother gets 8 years for three infant deaths
- Germany tinkers with junk car scheme rules to fight fraud
- Two Germans make short-list for 'Best Job in the World' contest
- Berlin's public WiFi project rankles tech industry
- Two feared dead in Cologne archive rubble
- Germany welcomes new wave of Iraqi refugees
05 March
- Leverkusen turfs Bayern out of cup
- Mannichl says he's the victim of media 'hate campaign'
- Search begins for two missing in collapse
- CeBIT keeps high-tech fun despite economic gloom
- Gas stations to ban spirits to fight youth binge drinking
- Cheerleaders gather in Bremen for national championship
- What's on in Germany: March 5 - 11
- Klum says she's not too fat
- Siemens looks abroad to tap new interest in nuclear power
- Baffled Germans get new bureaucracy helpline
- SPD politician's office searched for child porn
- ECB cuts rates to 1.50 percent
- Star architect Chipperfield hands over keys to Berlin museum
06 March
- 'Swiss gigolo' to go on trial for blackmailing BMW heiress
- Hamburg police shoot man four times
- Bruno the bear's half-brother possibly headed for Bavaria
- Unstable conditions delay search at collapsed Cologne archive
- SPD's Tauss steps down after child porn probe
- Berlin says Opel bailout decision to take weeks
- Missing Portuguese man found dead in Berlin river
- Elite German graduates to teach at troubled schools
- Former East Germany weathering recession better than the west
- Siemens wins Danish wind turbine deal
07 March
- German celebrities gear up for wild wok race
- Mobile crane thief foiled by GPS tracking
- Discount supermarket chain Lidl to sell compact cars
- Search for Cologne archive survivors enters fourth day
- German ski bus bursts into flames in Austria
- Deutsche Bahn plans massive savings program
- Opel teeters on the brink
08 March
- Germans buying cars despite recession
- Berlin stays on top of Bundesliga
- One body found in Cologne archive rubble
- Captured pirates not coming to Germany
- CDU renews opposition to Turkish EU membership
- Attendance short-circuits at Hannover's tech fair CeBIT
- Berlin said to back Rasmussen for NATO
- Hesse pardons 'Carlos the Jackal' comrade
09 March
- Rescuers still searching for buried student
- Jung headed to Afghanistan
- Conservatives attack Merkel's leadership
- The best of Berlin in March
- New car buyers allowed to reserve scrapping premium
- Dead infant found in Berlin clothing donation container
- 'Swiss Gigolo' jailed for blackmailing heiress
- Police arrest 19-year-old in Michelle murder case
- Lufthansa cabin crew back wage row strike
- Say brother, can you spare a billion?
- First school for Muslim imams to open in Berlin
- Cops end granny's roundabout race
- Commerzbank pumps €4 billion into Dresdner
- Steinbrück pooh-poohs US call for stimulus
10 March
- Hertha's Voronin proves blonds have more fun in Berlin
- Aerospace group EADS soars into the black
- Lingering winter to bring Germany snow
- Child payment from stimulus package delayed until April
- German exports plunge
- Schoolbus crash into river bed injures 26
- Councillor calls for calm as villagers picket rapist's house
- Reward offered for hunter who killed wolf
- Financially troubled far-right NPD party faces split
- Police in eight cities raid premises of suspected Islamists
- Lehman losers call for state compensation
- Saving Berlin's tatty temple to art
- Deadly bird flu found in Bavarian wild duck
11 March
- Berlin athletics meet to allow UK's Chambers to compete
- 5,000-year-old sandal found near Constance
- Bayern smashes Sporting to book Champions League quarter-finals
- Disturbed Finnish woman living at Berlin’s Tegel airport
- Merkel: Germany facing worst crisis since 1945
- Opel dealers 'prepared to buy 20 percent stake'
- Publisher releases Koran in German as audio book
- Gunman kills 15 in school shooting
- Continental closes tyre factories, Daimler cuts work hours
- Germany issues arrest warrant for Sobibor's 'Ivan the Terrible'
- German school massacre sparks call for consequences
- Teen gunman killed after murdering 15
- All but one of shooter’s victims were female
12 March
- Berlin spends €200,000 on campaign against grumpiness
- Künast wants Greens to commit to ‘traffic-light’ coalition
- Authorities seek school massacre motive
- GM says Opel buyer would get patents
- US soldier killed by train in Bavaria
- Archaeology office lets 7,000-year-old boats rot away
- What's on in Germany: March 12 - 18
- VW races to overtake GM and Toyota
- Economist guru Krugman says Germany failing in financial crisis
- Kretschmer shot at other teenagers with air pistols before
- Psychologist sees Germany at greater risk for school shootings
- German media roundup: Could Winnenden have been prevented?
- Teen killer promised bloodbath on internet
13 March
- Police probe gunman's internet threat
- Police make second arrest in Duisburg mafia hit case
- Second body retrieved from collapsed Cologne archive
- A million Germans home sick from work on Friday the 13th
- Politicians demand better gun club checks and a video game ban
- Telekom spy scandal investigators raid executives' houses
- Mineral water in plastic bottles contaminated with hormones
- Wannabe model cast off show for insulting mighty Heidi
- Five million crocuses bring a touch of spring to the Rhineland
- Gunman's internet threat probably a hoax
- Merkel rejects calls for new stimulus package
- Chipmaker Qimonda to stop production in April
14 March
- German atheists rally the non-faithful one bus at a time
- Wolfsburg beat Schalke to ease up behind Hertha in Budesliga
- European states pull together to save Opel
- Thief steals ambulance while crew battle to save sick child
- Althaus set to lead CDU in Thuringia election this summer
- School killer played shooter game the night before massacre
- Merkel optimistic for G20 economic summit
15 March
- Squatters and leftists protest against Berlin gentrification
- Germany puts brakes on more stimulus
- MP admits buying child porn but says it was for work
- Hertha Berlin beat Leverkusen to stay top of the Bundesliga
- Merkel moots surprise checks for gun owners
- Police rescue toddler from kidnappers
16 March
- Official admits to building code violations near Cologne archive
- Guttenberg says private investors key to Opel's survival
- Greenpeace calls for environmental bailout
- Berlin scientists create organic alternative to Viagra
- Bits of mysterious 'stinky' meteorite found
- Hoeneß' TV football fee idea gets the boot
- Germany to work with US on secret research
- Winter weather to return just in time for first day of spring
- Gunman's father probed for negligent homicide
- Bavarian towns hoping to claim huge cement Jesus statue
17 March
- Edeka recalls ground pork on salmonella suspicions
- Munich wants Chinese Gitmo detainees
- GM tells Guttenberg Opel split up to US
- German investor confidence index posts fifth straight gain
- German tourist attacked by roving pack of dogs on beach
- Study says 80 percent of German speed traps flawed
- Banning video games will not halt youth violence
- Jil Sander to design for Japan's Uniqlo
- Berlin and Paris demand 'concrete results' at G20 summit
- Hamburg scientist quarantined after contact with Ebola virus
- Germany pans EU proposal for longer maternity leave
- Teen gunman's family issues apology
18 March
- Xenophobia widespread among German youth
- Hertha tops league amid history of bankruptcy, bombs and bribery
- Majority of Germans support stricter gun control
- Tram driver fined for sending photos of his genitals to passengers
- Berlin's Charité hospital downplays organic Viagra claim
- Three East German authors named for National Prize
- Music industry demands Germany fight internet piracy
- BMW blames crisis for failure to come up with 2009 forecast
- Currywurst museum coming to Berlin
- RWE to sell chunk of German gas grid
- Driver tells of harrowing hours as teen's hostage
- Swiss MP compares Steinbrück to Nazis
19 March
- German infrastructure tangled in dodgy US tax scheme
- First Iraqi refugees to land in Hannover
- What's on in Germany: March 19 - 25
- Ryanair pumped to penetrate Bavarian market this spring
- KaDeWe heist suspects released because of twin DNA
- Merkel defends Berlin’s crisis management
- Professor convicted for demanding sex for help on oral exam
- Hamburg bishop says condoms can't be 'taboo'
- Kahn eyeing Schalke manager job
- Munich searches for Oktoberfest rape victim
20 March
- Women stage wage-gap protests nationwide
- ThyssenKrupp cutting more jobs than expected
- Court rules Dresden tunnel would damage Elbe more than bridge
- Surf's up as Munich to buy endless wave
- Siemens lands €750 million China train deal
- Toy radio turned police scanner becomes Mickey Mouse operation
- Supercomputer to improve forecasting of lousy German weather
- CDU attacks new proposal to ban children from tanning beds
- Berlin backs Hypo Real Estate bank privatisation bill
- Over There: When reunification doesn't bring reconciliation
- Supermarket worker finds loads of cocaine in banana crates
21 March
- Cologne officials knew archive was sinking weeks ago
- Winnenden massacre parents call for changes
- Germany mulling measures to take on foreign school teachers
- Valuable Marc painting returned to heirs of Jewish owner
- TUI cuts workers' hours to save jobs
- Opel could shut factories to survive
- Köhler attacks virtual violence at massacre memorial service
22 March
- Brothels feel impact of financial crisis
- German spy held over affair with translator
- Wine industry rebels hit out against own promotion institute
- Police officers under increasing attack
- Owomoyela takes on neo-Nazis over World Cup insults
- Largest Hindu temple in northern Germany opens in Hannover
23 March
- Auschwitz museum struggling to preserve weathered ruins
- Merkel says Berlin won't take stake in Opel
- Military commissioner says troops get no love from Germans
- Abu Dhabi buys 9.1-percent of Daimler
- 'Fire devil' arsonist running amok in Viersen farmland
- Westerwelle demands early elections
- Commerzbank predicts massive recession
- Just kidding! Winter isn't over yet
- Swiss defence minister ditches Mercedes over Steinbrück
- The haus that Gropius built
- Students return to class after school massacre
24 March
- Recession could be double previous predictions
- Cologne archive sparks disciplinary hearing
- Government could extend auto scrapping premium
- German Luftwaffe pilots injured in fighter jet runway crash
- Naked German tourist goes for a walk in Dubai
- Controversial German polar experiment fails
- Deutsche Bank mulling job cuts
- Holiday postcard arrives in Bavaria 48 years late
- Dozens injured and one dead from snow and ice
- Köhler raps political wrangling during crisis
25 March
- German woman running for Indonesian parliament
- Porsche negotiates €10-billion loan to pay VW takeover debts
- Experts say child porn block may not work
- Ifo business confidence hits rock bottom
- Germans oppose troops in Afghanistan
- Police save 4,200 suffocating trout on Bavarian autobahn
- What Germany's new bureaucracy hotline can do for you
- Germany to block access to child porn websites
- Merkel backs extension of car scrapping scheme
- Pensioner admits to clubbing garden colony neighbours to death
- DFB demands Ballack step up national team leadership
- Berlin hopes Czech woes won’t kill EU deal
26 March
- Court rules Zeitungzeugen project can continue if limited
- German pair wins world figure skating title
- Labour Agency faces shortfall amid worsening recession
- Police fear 'phantom killer' evidence could be contaminated
- What's on in Germany: March 26 - April 1
- Merkel calls for sweeping NATO renewal
- German chess federation joins anti-doping fight
- Cologne mayor investigated for recording archive meetings
- High court rules against PETA Holocaust ad campaign
- Railing on Germany's Prince of the Rails
- Heidelberger printing to nix another 2,500 jobs
- Creationists taking on evolution in Germany
27 March
- Ballack says Germany needs to dominate Liechtenstein
- Border checks resume for NATO summit
- Siemens cutting more workers' schedules to save cash
- Singer Lionel Richie looking for old home in Berlin
- 250 tonnes of illegal fireworks seized
- Commerzbank board takes pay cut after €6.6 billion in losses
- Man loses unemployment benefits due to begging 'income'
- Obama confers with Merkel ahead of summit
- Deutsche Bahn accused of spying on journalists
28 March
- Official: 100 'dangerous' Islamists in Germany
- Bayern dig in for fight over Ribery
- Merkel snubs calls for more stimulus
- Auction sparks big interest for Saxon 'village' on Ebay
- Majority of Germans against daylight savings time
- Opel convoy protests against carmaker's possible demise
- Pirates free hijacked German tanker
- 40 years in Berlin and facing deportation
29 March
- Germany to buy stake in HRE bank
- Oliver Kahn turns down Schalke team manager job
- CDU politician calls for coffee machine scrapping bonus
- Thousands evacuated for WWII bomb clean up
- Deutsche Bahn boss stubborn despite resignation calls
- Financial crisis protests lead to arrests
30 March
- German author teaches economics with nurse love story
- Air Berlin falls further into debt despite revenue increase
- Jogger mugged by 7-year-old boy
- US soldier faces court on Iraq murder charges
- Two children dead after dropping hair dryer into bathtub
- Mehdorn steps down in Deutsche Bahn scandal
- US sergeant found guilty of taking part in Iraq executions
- German navy captures seven pirates
- UK auction house denies Hitler paintings are fake
- Celebrity chef butchers live rabbit in front of young audience
- Car scrapping bonus to be extended until year's end
- 'Phantom killer' cotton swabs were not made for crime scenes
31 March
- Nazi concentration camp survivors testify in Spanish trial
- Porsche profits increase dramatically
- Germany must do more for NATO
- Germany files charges in latest Somali pirate case
- Neo-Nazi youth organisation banned
- Thousands of jobs cut in Frankfurt banking merger
- Cologne offices raided in archive collapse investigation
- VW unveils new Indian plant
- German unemployment increased in March
- Study shows pharmacies hand out drugs without prescriptions
- T-Mobile blocks Skype for German iPhones
- VW worker collapses on hunger strike for more hours