📰 Breaking News: News Archive for December 2011 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 December
- Jewish community state funding doubled
- Pope escapes German seat belt fine
- No Mayan apocalypse expected next year
- Discovering Munich’s past in a mediaeval loo
- Iran 'planning attacks on US bases in Germany'
- Britain and Germany urge EU to isolate Iran
- What's on in Germany: December 1 - 7
- Police plead for help in neo-Nazi terror hunt
- Elephant death tourist 'crushed by husband'
- Renowned East German author Christa Wolf dies
- Euro could collapse in 'three to six months'
- Welcome needed to attract skilled foreigners
02 December
- Mum accused of throwing baby in bin
- Elvis museum rocks quiet Düsseldorf
- Detentions had 'chilling effect' on G8 protests
- Merkel: Germany wants 'fiscal union' for euro
- Germany 'more corrupt than thought'
- Digging up artistic Berlin
- 'Dumbest bank robber' jailed for seven years
- ThyssenKrupp books huge stainless steel hit
- Fox carcass discovery closes restaurant
- Pool named after Spaghetti Western hero Bud Spencer
- Mike Leigh to head Berlinale jury
- ‘Nazi ideology is filled with terrorist spirit’
03 December
- Löw relishing Euro 2012 opener with Portugal
- German Commissioner calls for eurobonds
- Far-right cell links to Saarland attacks probed
- Hitler's prestige arena blown to bits
- Pirate leader says Twitter bitching divisive
- Energy giant RWE plans massive job cuts
04 December
- Karzai slams Pakistan for boycotting Bonn talks
- Von Trier's 'Melancholia' triumphs at European film awards
- Steinbrück rules out new grand coalition
- ‘Baron Cut-and-Paste’ dismisses new plagiarism claims
- SAP reaches for sky with cloud computing
- WWII bombs defused after huge evacuation
05 December
- Afghan conference starts in Bonn without Pakistan
- SPD puts off picking chancellor candidate
- Mulled wine sales collapse in warm weather
- Neo-Nazi killers sold fascist 'Monopoly'
- German football seeks new president
- Top ten German customs and traditions
- Elderly raided for WWII massacre in France
- Increasing income gap 'due to poor education'
- Slave girl told: 'We'll cut off your head if you run'
- Snowfall blankets mountains
- Merkel and Sarkozy call for new euro pact
06 December
- Merkel pushes euro pact amid credit threat
- More Holocaust survivors qualify for pensions
- 'Youth Word of the Year' shows 'problem' of trendy English
- World War II munitions litter Baltic and North Sea
- Americans find statue Nazis 'borrowed' in WWII
- Industrial orders soar despite euro crisis
- Police hunt man who shot teen daughter
- Wintry weather causes road chaos
- Drunken trucker hits house - then bar
07 December
- Marseille toss Dortmund out of Champions League
- One in ten so stressed they grind their teeth
- TV firms agree to turn down volume on adverts
- Raphael 'copy' unveiled as authentic artwork
- Allotment gardeners told to prune racial quotas
- Germany dampens EU crisis summit hopes
- Pirates say 'Arrgh' as support dwindles
- Nosey janitor discovers ancient coin hoard
- Economy may contract despite rise in output
- Princely petrol pump prices miff motorists
08 December
- Step back in time at ye merry olde Christmas market
- Deutsche Bank letter bomb was operational
- Woman sold carpet worth millions for €20,000
- What's on in Germany: December 8 - 14
- Should more be done to protect German?
- Crows pick holes in Berlin station roof
- Fear of inflation grows as faith in euro falls
- Germany dubbed 'master of Europe' in euro crisis
- Italian 'organic' food fraud hits German market
- Hunt intensifies for man who killed daughter
- Recycling solar panels could be a winner for Loser Chemicals
09 December
- Exhausted Merkel hails 'very important result'
- Western Nazi network aided terror trio
- Deutsche Bahn set to rake in record profits
- Cops search for more anarchist letter bombs
- Museum scared to open ancient Roman wine
- Duisburg mayor faces corruption probe
- Bundesbank sees sharp economic slowdown
- States agree on plan to ban neo-Nazi party
- Christmas market visitors poisoned
- Crowd-funded 'porno' premieres in Berlin
10 December
- Apple fights to save Christmas sales
- Time slipping away for Durban climate deal
- Munich calls last orders on public transport drinking
- 100 snakes found in Cologne hotel
- Germans rage against the road works
- Germany keeps door open for outcast Brits
11 December
- Augsburg triumph as Gladbach blow chance
- Finance Minister wins major European prize
- Nazi helper arrested in terrorist case
- TV show exposes filthy German trains
- 'Bad Santa' poisons girl at Christmas market
- Afghan war criminal loose in Munich
12 December
- Bayern bounce back to take top spot
- 130 informants hinder neo-Nazi NPD party ban
- 50 trains damaged in Munich’s ‘farewell drink’
- Ukrainian minister driving stolen Mercedes
- Life expectancy sinks for poorer Germans
- Consumers to lose out to energy-guzzlers
- ThyssenKrupp sells shipyards business
- 'Joseph of Nazareth' takes Nativity to Twitter
- Berlin minister resigns after 11 days in office
- Neo-Nazi link to rabbi death in Zurich probed
13 December
- Priceless medieval armour up for sale
- Five dogs found skinned
- German president grilled over private loan
- Scientists create world's smallest steam engine
- EON takes €3-billion charge as prospects dim
- Scorn for 'Googleberg’s' new EU internet role
- Eurozone deal boosts investor confidence
- Incest family was village's 'open secret'
- Mortgage lender trip included Rio brothel visit
- Supermodel Auermann fined for tax evasion
14 December
- Wind energy leaders eye US expansion
- Beating the holiday bag blues at Frankfurt Airport
- English town ends twinning with Germany
- Bavarian ski slopes open
- Nine charged in US in Siemens corruption case
- FDP general secretary Lindner resigns
- Teen fined for sitting on train's first class stairs
- Winter storm barrels towards Germany
- Merkel sees birth of 'true political union' in Europe
- Commerzbank beefs up financial situation
15 December
- Goethe Institute sees surging interest in German
- Struggling pensioners forced back to work
- German banks abandon US customers
- What's on in Germany: December 15 - 21
- Club sells tickets to game fans can't attend
- FDP turns to another 'boygroup' member
- Plank-wielding bank robber takes €3
- Berlin’s entire S-Bahn train network shuts down
- Truck drops 146-tonne crane on road
- President Wulff 'regrets' omitting private loan
- Berlin hails 'turning point' in Afghan war
16 December
- Elderly Nazi killer begins life prison term
- Home championship dream dashed for Nowitzki
- Leftists wants police pepper spray ban
- Winter storm ‘Joachim’ snarls transport
- South Park takes aim at 'humourless' Germans
- Pirate blackmails colleagues with sex tape
- German hero named ‘Norwegian of the year’
- 'Stresstest' is German word of the year
- Euro hasn't led to exploding prices
- Eurozone crisis could destroy export jobs
- Euro-rebels fail to derail FDP in high-stakes vote
- The high price of saving the euro
17 December
- Winter storm 'Joachim' blows over
- Afghanistan troop withdrawl to begin in Jan
- Metro riders force attacking youths to flee
- Bayern Munich 'will be even better' in 2012
- White Christmas likely in southern Germany
- Politics played a role in Stark's exit from ECB
18 December
- Zschäpe lawyers may seek her release
- Most Germans won't go to church this Christmas
- Zwanziger could quit DFB before spring
- Wulff faces increasing attacks from all sides
- German pediatric heart device receives FDA okay
- Retailers expect strong last-minute sales
- Germany praises Czech leader Havel, dead at 75
19 December
- Germany's favourite food
- Babbel booted out of Hertha Berlin
- Intel agency sabotaged police in neo-Nazi case
- Arab airline throws lifeline to Air Berlin
- Nowitzki, Neuner named top German athletes
- Libya wants to buy German ankle monitors
- Bird-killer rips heads off homing pigeons
- Suspected thief made police recruitment poster boy
- Man acquitted of rape but jailed for incest
- Kim's death 'chance for change' in North Korea
- Former Deutsche Bank CEO settles fraud case
- All-star jury lined up for Berlin Film Festival
20 December
- Saxony’s Christmas woodcarving tradition
- Baby foreskins could cut animal testing
- AT&T drops blocked bid for T-Mobile in US
- Germany to double first euro fund contribution
- Siemens hires sacked US general McChrystal
- Americans mull Leipzig consulate closure
- Economic 'good tidings' brighten eurozone gloom
- Neo-Nazi terror house 'will be demolished'
- Boob job vouchers 'not a good gift idea'
- Anti-fascists brick up Neo-Nazi politician's front door
- Despite snow, Christmas only white in mountains
21 December
- The Local's guide to skiing in Germany
- Celebrating a German Christmas down under
- Beauty 'as good as a uni degree' for career
- Energy firm EnBW sells Polish assets
- Sandra Bullock smuggles sausage for Christmas
- Germany to borrow €250 billion to service debt
- Popularity for FDP plummets further
- Germany funds Afghan TV cop show
- Teens jailed for brutal Berlin metro attack
- Officials investigate more football violence
22 December
- Six jailed in €300 million tax evasion scheme
- A very German shopping list
- Islamic studies gain foothold in state schools
- Gladbach kick Schalke out of German Cup
- German Santa writes to thousands of good kids
- Oniony pig farts legal, court rules
- What's on in Germany: December 22 – January 4
- Spanish sue Hamburg for E.coli cucumber warning
- German Patriot missiles impounded in Finland
- Europeans flee crisis by heading to Germany
- RWE abandons Gazprom joint venture talks
- Wulff apologises for personal finance faux pas
23 December
- Berlin summons Syrian ambassador
- Talking to self not evidence, court rules
- Deutsche Börse must sell holdings for merger
- Justice minister's dog bites woman
- 'Tis the season for severe traffic jams
- ‘The right speech at the wrong time’
- Blackberry 'reprieve' for tired employees
- Thousands warned about French breast implants
- Gas company sends man €30,000 bill
24 December
- Nuke shutdown could force energy asset sale
- Gunman on the run after family fight
- President avoids scandal in Christmas speech
- Mild weather melts last hope of white Christmas
- Drunk neo-Nazi fined €600 for Hitler salute
- Man calls police over 'rubbish' presents
25 December
- Hitler's favourite singer dies aged 108
- Police: Dead baby may have been slain
- Kids' channel targeting older children
- Hundreds of animals die in morning farm fire
- Christmas Eve lights in sky 'probably meteor'
- Kobe Bryant turns to German doctor
26 December
- Despite crisis, Germany benefits from euro
- House explodes while family on holiday
- Most Germans don't want president to resign
- Customs officers try to block Polish fireworks
- Thousands missing over the holidays
- Bavarians build church out of snow
27 December
- Top UN envoy stays optimistic on Iraq
- The Local’s top five offbeat stories of 2011
- Girl missing after cliff fall
- Germany has 'mildest Christmas in decades'
- Hackers could hijack mobile phones
- Books most popular gift this Christmas
- Mail order mogul Werner Otto dies at 102
- Top court to decide if 'organic water' exists
- Government divided over phone data law
- Historian wants ban on communist uniforms
28 December
- The Local's top five animal stories of 2011
- Berlin politician attacked in own home
- Heavy metal band claims German Ebay ripoff
- Floridians want more naked Germans to visit
- State invests millions in revamping Nazi retreat
- More Germans forced into early retirement
- Carmakers ready for record year
- More seniors addicted to drugs and alcohol
- Top German emigration destinations: US and Switzerland
- Widow loses pension after 17-day marriage
29 December
- The Local's top five features of 2011
- More jobless only getting basic support
- Cruise ships pollute like millions of cars
- Berlin's spirits come in small batches
- Half a million kilometres of traffic jams this year
- Half of Germans optimistic for 2012
- This year cost 2.3 percent more than last
- Two arrested in hunt for cop killers
- 'Mia' and 'Ben' favourite baby names of 2011
- Search is on for baby rhino name
30 December
- The Local's top five politics stories of 2011
- German fury at raids on groups in Cairo
- Pack of cigarettes to cost more than €5
- 2011 was fifth warmest, third sunniest on record
- Foreigners set up a third of all new firms
- Merkel and Sarkozy in 'Dinner for One'
- 'Baron Cut-and-Paste' may return to politics
- Finance minister: eurozone not in danger
- Measles spotted more often in 2011
31 December
- Merkel confident despite expecting 2012 troubles
- Government 'cut 100,000 from jobless figures'
- Kevins and Mandys 'have no luck in online love'
- Autobahn crash kills one, injures three
- A million expected at Berlin's party