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

01 September
- Man knifes teen girl and threatens to blow up building
- 70th anniversary of start to WWII remembered
- Light bulb ban begins
- Storms to follow final summer heat
- Economic crisis boosts German unemployment
- Three trucks full of weaponry removed from bomber's home
- Political parties jockey for power after German state polls
- The Greens’ Omid Nouripour: ‘You have to fight for democracy’
- Germany unveils €17.5-billion plan to fight credit crunch
- Oste bridge ferry still going strong after century of service
- Demonstrators scale Reichstag façade for anti-nuke protest
- Merkel: WWII caused 'endless suffering'
02 September
- Wild horses taking refuge at former US base
- Berlin fights Google Books project in US court
- Court allows suspected terrorist to name son 'Jihad'
- Car scrapping premium funds run out
- Neo-Nazi NPD faces tax-money windfall for victory in Saxony
- 10,000 skilled labour traineeships go unfilled
- BMW to invest €1 billion in German plants
- No Angels singer pans police and press for public HIV outing
- Merkel ahead in polls as election battle heats up
- Hospitals 'bribing' doctors for patients
03 September
- Once filthy Ruhr River safe again for salmon
- New film tells story of Olympic gender trick in Nazi Germany
- Merkel vows swift clean up at Asse nuke dump
- What's on in Germany: September 3 - 9
- Art stolen by Nazis turns up on TV antiques show
- German voters growing more sceptical of campaign promises
- Lufthansa vows new subsidiary Austrian Airlines will make money
- New US ambassador Murphy takes up his post
- Clean it like The Kaiser: Siemens offers FC Bayern appliances
- German execs took 20 percent pay cut last year
- Althaus resigns as premier of Thuringia
- Beatnik Berlin fostering high-tech start-ups
04 September
- 'World's longest TV show' features a day in Berlin life after the Wall
- Merkel rejects renewing grand coalition
- Young watchmaker's labyrinthine pieces gain global following
- No benefit to popular practice of holding students back, study finds
- Controversial exhibition explores WWII in the developing world
- One dead in car transport train accident on island causeway
- Indian summer to arrive after wet weekend
- Deutsche Telekom reportedly seeking to unload UK mobile unit
- UN probes fiery German battle with Taliban
- ECB warns against taking eurozone recovery for granted
05 September
- GM reportedly to keep Opel for fear of Russians
- Four German soldiers hurt in bombing after air strike on tankers
- Bank refuses to replace €500 note man claims was eaten by his cat
- NRW premier Rüttgers apologises after insulting Romanians
- Germany keen to impress in friendly against South Africa
- 50,000 join anti-nuclear power march in Berlin
- EU criticises NATO air strike called by Germans
06 September
- New football stars shine to beat South Africa
- Those convicted of treason to Nazi state set to be cleared
- Trade unionists meet on Left, wary of SPD
- Art dealer seeks museum home for RAF death masks
- Ten police officers hurt as anti-Nazi march runs out of control
- CSU and FDP cross swords over social provision plans
- ISAF denies Afghan air strike broke NATO rules
07 September
- Merkel joins call for Afghan progress meeting
- LTU flight attendants strike in Düsseldorf
- Gabriel accuses Merkel of blocking Asse files
- Among Europe's most damaged economies, Germany leads recovery
- US-German relations fray over Afghan death probe
- Activists blast anti-AIDS campaign showing Hitler having sex
- German military kills suspected pirate near Somalian coast
- Making it in Germany: an Aussie fashionista
- The war in Afghanistan comes to Berlin
- Police confiscate stolen painting found on antiques TV show
- Armoured car sales boost industrial orders
- Few of Germany's unemployed willing to move for work
- Merkel to address parliament over air strike
08 September
- German wages stagnate at bottom of EU study
- S-Bahn repairs create Berlin commuter chaos
- German and French telecoms joining to dominate UK market
- Bavarian woman claims to own world's oldest dog
- Border town plans to fight prostitutes with stinky acid
- Germany set to face England in historic women's Euro 2009 final
- Knut's Italian girlfriend Gianna arrives in Berlin
- Merkel defends German mission in Afghanistan
- German trade surplus surges as output drops
- German education spending ranks low in international study
- Teen from Winnenden school massacre had killing fantasies
- Germany rehabilitates Third Reich wartime 'traitors'
- Bundestag passes law paving way for EU reform treaty
09 September
- Fire department exercise injures 11 after unexplained explosion
- Berlin docks S-Bahn payment for poor service
- GM expected to reach Opel decision today
- Bundeswehr dedicates fallen soldiers memorial
- Hessian border town changing states after 50-year campaign
- Leading German bloggers present web journalism manifesto
- Labour ministry tags €100 million for micro-credit programme
- Prosecutors charge MP Tauss in child porn case
- Man missing for 13 years found dead in Munich cellar
- VW engines to fire German household power plants
- The Left party surges in latest opinion poll
- Commerzbank returns state guarantees
- Escaping Berlin: Autumn colours from a Spreewald canoe
10 September
- Two goals by Klose keep Germany headed for World Cup
- German officer reportedly violated NATO bombing rules
- New papers show Gorleben nuclear site records were doctored
- Consumer agency warns of product packaging trickery
- What's on in Germany: September 10 - 16
- Police recover €1.5-million Stradivari violin from thieves
- Berlin S-Bahn debacle may cost Deutsche Bahn dearly
- WWII bomb explosion injures two at Ulm's main train station
- Fire destroys 16th century Bavarian castle
- CDU’s Kees de Vries: ‘Integration is not only a problem for immigrants’
- General Motors prepared to sell Opel to Magna
- Germany crush England to win women's Euro title
11 September
- Opel workers fear layoffs by new owner Magna
- Berlin asks NATO partners to keep quiet on deadly bombing
- Man's ferry flub sends wife, kids and dog plunging into river
- Germany is not Opel
- Munich stays Germany's priciest place to rent
- Cranes opt for extended stay on Germany's Baltic coast
- Raising a glass at Germany's autumn wine festivals
- Dissident writers coming to Frankfurt Book Fair
- 'Dad, if you keep driving this fast, we will be the first!'
- UK documents expose Thatcher's virulent opposition to reunification
12 September
- Election TV debate last chance for sparks
- Rioting in Hamburg increases tension ahead of street fest
- Recession set to cost everyone €3,000
- Opel sale heavily criticised by government negotiator
- Leftist leader in Thuringia employing ex-Stasi officer as secretary
- German ships breach Northeast Passage
13 September
- Two teens arrested for beating man to death
- Steam train collision injures 52
- Police use water cannon against Hamburg rioters
- Solar panel thieves focus on rural roofs
- Steinmeier plans to end Afghan ops by 2013
- 25,000 march for more privacy from authorities
- Merkel and Steinmeier square off in TV debate
- Merkel and Steinmeier choose TV duet over duel
14 September
- Press: Steinmeier's better in debate but not good enough
- Germany aims to build 40 offshore wind farms
- New internet 'hybrid mail' service to compete with Deutsche Post
- Berlin officers probed after police brutality video posted online
- Being schooled in German sensibilities
- Plane with SPD boss makes crash landing
- Queen Mother's letter tells of brush with Luftwaffe bombing
- Magna to cut 4,000 Opel jobs in Germany
- Oktoberfest beer cheaper for many tourists despite price hike
- SPD’s Ravindra Gujjula: ‘You have to be better than Germans’
- Berlin calls air strike in Afghanistan 'necessary'
15 September
- Belgium takes case against Opel to next level
- Berlin police officers transferred during video beating probe
- Court says drivers responsible for dodging Oktoberfest drunks
- Teen apologises for murder in Munich S-Bahn
- China warns Germany against taking Uighur Gitmo detainees
- Making it in Germany: An Irish rock singer
- Opposition rails against grand coalition but blocks alternatives
- The Best of Berlin in September
- Frankfurt motor show hopes for boost from electric cars
- Nine-year-old girl found seriously injured in gully
- 'Sugar bombs and fat traps' lurking in foods
- German parties present miniature political utopia in Hamburg
16 September
- Wolfsburg's Grafite scores hat trick in Champions League debut
- Aachen couples have highest national divorce rate
- Merkel chugs through Germany on whistle-stop tour
- Bystanders did nothing to stop S-Bahn murder
- Eight soldiers injured by Taliban attacks
- Drunken erotic online chat from bathtub sparks call to police
- German scientists discover a new type of dinosaur in Niger
- Research exposes breadth of Germany's executive gender gap
- Schavan withholds nuclear energy study
- Chinese artist gets emergency brain surgery in Munich
17 September
- World's first language festival begins in Bremen
- Turkish court finds Marco guilty
- Steinmeier calls for further probe of Afghan election results
- Emergency phone at site of Munich S-Bahn beating was broken
- Plans to censor Oktoberfest debauchery spark press protest
- What's on in Germany: September 17 - 23
- Six officers remove raging bride from dry cleaner's store
- Abandoned Nazi autobahn listed as historic monument in Bavaria
- Dairy farmers flood fields with milk to protest of low prices
- Teen runs amok in Ansbach school attack
- Scruffy Berlin looks to future in high finance
18 September
- 'Gay Sunday' kicks off first Oktoberfest weekend
- Merkel responds to Opel protectionism charges
- Bundesrat approves Lisbon reform treaty
- S-Bahn commuter train collides with turnip truck
- Eastern town turns Stasi training camp into tourist playground
- The FDP’s Serkan Tören: ‘I didn’t want to leave the choices to others’
- Teen attacker planned Ansbach school rampage
- Stuttgart Ice Age show puts world's oldest art on display
- Sources say German officer violated protocol in deadly air strike
- Non-traditional names linked to teacher discrimination
19 September
- VW could take stake in Suzuki
- Hamm man threatens passersby with sword
- Flash mob greets Merkel at Hamburg rally
- Bundeswehr sees need for more troops in Afghanistan
- Al-Qaida threatens Germany in terror video
- Oktoberfest opens to massive crowds
20 September
- Meet the man who brought down the Berlin Wall
- Joschka Fischer working with BMW
- NPD ordered to remove anti-Polish signs
- Two patients die after group therapy at Berlin doctor’s office
- Gebrselassie wins Berlin marathon, misses world record
- Opel job cuts may begin Monday
- Free Democrats vow to govern only with Merkel
21 September
- Battered SPD limps into national election
- Police issue warrant for doctor after group therapy drug deaths
- Money ministers warn of hard times to come
- Lufthansa plans to cut staff by 15 percent
- Experts ask Germans to help save chestnut trees from moths
- Australian killed by train after Oktoberfest visit
- One tonne of fish dead after dairy farmer protest
- German archaeologists find undisturbed royal crypt in Syria
- Ansbach school attacker driven by hate of people
- A nation of 80 million Merkels
- Adidas and Puma end 60-year family feud with football match
22 September
- FDP's joker Westerwelle shapes up for coalition with Merkel
- NPD letter to immigrant politicians tells them to 'go home'
- Court rules against spammers
- Magna seen cutting 4,000 Opel jobs in Germany
- Baden-Württemberg deemed to have best economic potential
- Münster Zoo raising rhino by hand after mother attacks
- Lehmann suspended after unauthorised Oktoberfest visit
- The Left's Sevim Dağdelen: ‘My origins don’t define my political beliefs’
- Five dead in bus crash
23 September
- Merkel starts to actively court female voters
- Police wiretapping surveillance surges
- Indian summer set to continue with high pressure system
- Oktoberfest gets iPhone apps
- Police raid NPD office for sending racist hate mail
- Swine flu vaccines expected to arrive in mid-October
- Germany's worst drivers live in the south
- Steinbrück accuses UK of 'having problems' with financial reform
- Organisers report rush on tickets for fourth-largest lotto jackpot
- Harz region to open first German hiking trail for nudists
- Germans foot the bill for big pharma's drugs
24 September
- Rich Germans voting Green on local level
- Experts deny reported spike in police phone surveillance
- US warns of travel to Germany after terrorist threat video
- What's on in Germany: September 24-30
- Merkel to demand new financial rules at G20
- Ikea shutting down 'Billy' factory in Saxony-Anhalt
- German trucker jackknifes first himself then his rig in Sweden
- Family of four killed in a car blaze outside Berlin
- Growing military trauma cases going untreated
- Germany rejects EU complaints about Opel aid
25 September
- Widespread sun forecast for Sunday's vote
- Last East German leader still a convinced socialist
- Legendary Berlin punk club SO36 loses lease
- Taxi driver forces man to enter airport naked after fare dispute
- Study finds regional food products not necessarily ‘greener’
- Emden shipyard workers protest closure plans
- Merkel faces ‘hanging chad’ election victory
- Passau police officer shot in the face with his service weapon
- Stuttgart institute working on 'one-litre plane' for NASA contest
- Steinbrück calls for global financial transaction tax at G20
26 September
- Steinmeier warns of social unrest with Merkel
- Islamists make threats ahead of election
- Half of Germans back compulsory vote amid falling turnout
- Summer's end draws near as 'Sabine' runs out of puff
- German housing prices fall for the first time in five years
- Skies cleared over Oktoberfest crowds amid terror fear
- Parties make final push before election
- First suspected swine flu death in Germany
27 September
- Former general calls for Afghan withdrawal by 2012
- The colourful coalitions possible from Germany's vote
- Five dead in horror autobahn crash
- Oktoberfest crowds drown recession in beer
- Germany's great piano makers the latest victims of downturn
- Turnout low as German voters head to the polls
- Fewer visitors to Frankfurt car show amid global crisis
- Is Germany ready for a reforming Merkel?
- Merkel's conservatives win with FDP: exit polls
- The Local's live coverage of the 2009 election
28 September
- Duisburg high school closed after attack threat
- Civil service workers face huge gender wage gap
- Islamist suspects detained amid tightened Oktoberfest security
- World leaders congratulate Merkel on election win
- Greens vow to oppose U-turn on German nuclear phaseout
- Pirate Party fires broadside at German political establishment
- Merkel warns Germans of challenges ahead
- English tourist dead after fall from Munich hotel window
- CDU to lead Schleswig-Holstein, SPD in Brandenburg
- Future foreign minister Westerwelle refuses to answer English question
- Afghans compensated for NATO air strike
- Business community expecting economic reforms from Merkel
29 September
- Russia's ‘Hitler skull’ belonged to a woman
- ‘Elk safari’ backs up A7 traffic
- Hertha reportedly considering hiring Matthäus as coach
- Berlin S-Bahn commuters to be reimbursed for train chaos
- Making the SPD relevant through redundancy
- Emden shipyard closes despite workers' protests
- Energy firms looking at huge nuclear windfall
- Stinky German men ranked the world's worst lovers
- Knut slapped by new girlfriend
- Westerwelle: Germany must stay in Afghanistan
- SPD makes Steinmeier parliamentary leader
30 September
- Deadly tsunami injures at least one German tourist
- Ballack says national team focused on beating Russia in qualifier
- Germany mulls realities of first openly gay foreign minister
- Unemployment dips but economists warn of coming pain
- Ex-finance senator says Berlin is too dumb to become a great city
- Lufthansa computer glitch causes big delays
- Berlin court rules in favour of Muslim prayer in school
- Police break up child porn ring in Austria and Germany
- Number of German MPs with immigration background rises
- Deutsche Bank reportedly looking to axe 1,300 jobs