📰 Breaking News: News Archive for February 2012 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 February
- Manhunt after second Bochum prisoner flees
- Government aims to hire more minorities
- Wulff faces new claims of improprieties
- Arty Argentine meteorite exhibit falls to earth
- EU blocks Deutsche Börse merger with NYSE
- Will Bionade fizz go flat after Dr Oetker takeover?
- Tongan luger uncovered as underwear PR hoax
- Freeze deepens to minus 20 Celsius and snow
- Commandos arrest neo-Nazi terror suspect
- Tub of lard found fit to eat after 64 years
02 February
- US football star hopes to inspire fellow Germans
- Bahn sends bill to accident victim's family
- Student veterinarians most likely to pop pills
- Merkel urges China to press Iran over nukes
- UK eurosceptic sparks uproar with Nazi jibe
- Euro crisis, earthquakes slam Munich Re profits
- Deutsche Bank profits fall as debt crisis bites
- What's on in Germany: February 2 - 8
- Ramstein to host NATO missile shield command
- Compassion needed for homeless out in cold
- Football legend makes Alzheimer admission
03 February
- Should fines rise for fare dodgers?
- Public transport fare dodging an 'epidemic'
- Judge jails wrong-way crash driver indefinitely
- Thousands of US troops leaving Bavaria
- Most Germans want president to resign
- Cake in the face for 'Baron Cut-and-Paste'
- Germany not responsible for Nazi-era crimes
- China doesn't want to 'buy Europe'
- Europe’s German agenda
- Hamburg sues over pricey, late concert hall
- Bestiality brothels spur call for animal sex ban
04 February
- Dissidents storm Syrian embassy in Berlin
- Dortmund top table after win at chilly Nuremberg
- Politician slammed for remarks on Sharia courts
- Merkel gives mixed review of China trip
- Coldest night yet grips chilled Germany
- De Maizière urges more military might in Europe
05 February
- MEP suggests rebranding Greece
- Westerwelle hammers China, Russia over veto
- Bavarian school bars 'impolite' greetings
- Wulff under fire over car lease deal
- Socks provided key clue in neo-Nazi case
- 'White Rose' founder declared a saint
06 February
- China offers Merkel some comfort for Europe
- Leftist crime on the rise
- Man rescued from canoe on frozen river
- Sarkozy looks to Merkel for re-election help
- Former spy boss moves to Deutsche Bank
- Children sit in front row at bloody sex opera
- Car thieves discover dead baby
- Snow to follow record deep freeze
- Industrial orders rise amid eurozone gloom
- Robust Germany faces rising 'burnout' problem
07 February
- Wulff case 'a chance to open up German politics'
- Germans jailed in UK for owning terrorist material
- Virus lays low thousands of farm animals
- Hoeneß: Bayern saved Dortmund with €2 mln
- Rapper on dole faces benefit cut for lyrics
- Syrian spy suspects arrested in Berlin
- Sex helps 'keep you young' in old age
- Frozen kraut jam leaves autobahn drivers sauer
- Lost ancient artefacts found after 50 years
- Court caps Jewish ghetto pension claims
08 February
- Immunisations and anal pharmacists
- German papers win paparazzi case in Europe
- Minister calls for school 'Facebook lessons'
- Action! Babelsberg film studio fêtes 100 years
- GM threatens major job cuts at Opel
- Merkel helps boost conservatives' popularity
- Exports top €1 trillion despite euro crisis
- Arctic cold wreaks quirky havoc across Germany
- Drunken Munich U-Bahn train driver busted
- Germany signs €3 bln in deals with Kazakhstan
09 February
- Sick pups found in van
- What's on in Germany: February 9 - 15
- Rent-jumping family caught by police
- Berlinale opens with revolutionary drama
- Daimler books record €6-billion profit
- Germany expels four Syrian diplomats
- Star cyclist Ullrich found guilty of doping
- Brutal cold triggers reserve power plants
- Artist compensated for two lost French fries
- Tourists flock to Germany in 2011
10 February
- Germany's best actors
- Germany backs new UN mission to Syria
- Family dies off Egyptian coast in boat wreck
- Transsexual child could be sent to mental ward
- Teen smoking plunges
- Germans don't trust Greece to tighten belt
- Shooter of US airmen in Frankfurt gets life
- Merkel's French connection
- Berlin defies EU over copyright deal
- German wins Empire State Building race – yet again
- Outrage over ‘prime-time racism’ against Turks
11 February
- Ivy Quainoo wins 'Voice of Germany' contest
- BMW pays $3 million in US safety fines
- Traffic deaths in Berlin rise in 2011
- Anti-German sentiment rising in Greece
- Jolie: Afghanistan may be subject for next film
- Hamburg lake draws 100,000 skating fans
12 February
- Nazi comedy unexpected hit at Berlinale
- Seehofer calls for people's vote on euro
- Swiss quake alarms some in SW Germany
- Hertha sacks new coach Skibbe
- Germans saddened by Whitney Houston's death
- Germans seek US help in neo-Nazi investigation
13 February
- Love Parade disaster city votes out mayor
- Cologne witchcraft trial reopens after 400 years
- Greece leaving the euro not so scary - Germans
- Thousands hit streets to protest copyright law
- Barefoot snow runner sets 5km world record
- Shitstorm 'best English gift to German language'
- Drug data firm 'sold raw info' to big pharma
- Olympic bosses cannot ban underwear luger
- Deutsche Bank 'to pay €800 mln' in Kirch case
- Dog attack victim tries to save owner's life
14 February
- Thousands block neo-Nazis in Dresden
- German man refuses to leave Swedish airport
- Berlin chops down Unter den Linden lime trees
- Rhineland autobahn fire causes pile-up, kills one
- How to get dumped in Deutschland
- OECD sees German growth slowing in 2012
- How East German misfits found freedom
- Investor confidence tops 10-month high
- Judges: Get professors out of poorhouse
- Handyman finds secret gold stash in kitchen
- Six little pigs find new mum - a bulldog
- Merkel pledges more EU sanctions against Syria
15 February
- Barca beat Leverkusen
- Should the childless pay more tax?
- Stowaway found clinging to outside of train
- Canada wants military base in Germany
- German economy shrinks at end of 2011
- Police clear Stuttgart 21 protest camp
- Meryl Streep wins Golden Bear for life work
- Rhineland faces road chaos after bridge fire
- Germany warns of 'bottomless pit' in Greece
- Scientists discover world's tiniest chameleon
- Snow and ice spread across the country
- Air-traffic controllers to strike at Frankfurt Airport
16 February
- 'Next Top Model' house architect faces charges
- Penniless artists the happiest of us all
- Second man sentenced in TV station fraud
- What's on in Germany: February 16 - 22
- Greek president attacks Schäuble for 'taunts'
- Teen girl discovers 'swinging' parents online
- More than one million jobs vacant in Germany
- Electricity dealers put grid on brink of blackout
- Neo-Nazi's cats caught in bills row
17 February
- Berlin named a top world city for students
- Frankfurt begins old town reconstruction
- Prosecutors want Wulff's immunity lifted
- US to withdraw more than 11,000 troops
- More strike chaos hits Frankfurt Airport
- Mouse droppings bankrupt Bavarian bakery
- Germans pick Eurovision Song Contest entry
- Profile: Christian Wulff lived and died by the media
- President Wulff resigns
- Football teams turn pink for women's wallets
- Merkel’s presidential problem
- Anonymous do-gooder hands out €180,000
- Greek debt relief decision expected on Monday
18 February
- Carousing at Cologne carnival - now in English
- Run Lola Run to become opera - Sing Lola Sing?
- Strike paralyses Berlin's public transport
- Another week of freezing nights ahead
- New president 'could be found by Wednesday'
- New drugs 'often no better' than old ones
19 February
- Young Muslim criminals reoffend less often
- Berlin film festival's Golden Bear goes to Italy
- Naked sledgers brave nippy temperatures
- Monday strikes hit Frankfurt flights
- Neo-Nazi victim's girl slams police racism
- Brawling British boxer banged up in Bavaria
20 February
- East German activist to be new president
- Germany’s most wanted criminal collared
- Khedira shocked by Tunisian arrests over sexy pics
- Frankfurt Airport strike extended to Wednesday
- A painful submission or Merkel’s masterpiece?
- Profile: Joachim Gauck, Germany's 'President of Hearts'
- Rhinelanders go mad for Rose Monday
- Petrol prices surge to record highs
- Judge to confiscate Facebook account
- Stingy banks prod firms to tap bond market
- Greece no threat to world economy: ECB man
21 February
- Babies aware of environment earlier than thought
- Frankfurt airport strike extended to Friday
- Mentally-ill man 'starved to death' by family
- Schäuble certain of majority for Greek bailout
- Frozen falling faeces flummox Germans
- Gauck candidacy splits Merkel's coalition
- Singer praised neo-Nazi immigrant murders
- Hamburg’s smoking ban goes up in smoke
- Controversial Israeli sub surfaces in Kiel
- Having older employees 'better for business'
- Cops outfoxed by wily horn thieves
22 February
- Internet 'scammer' freed in surprise move
- Can Gauck be president 'while living in sin?'
- Hundreds of thousands have no electricity
- Germany told to stop sex offender castration
- Defrocked, defrauded: man cons abusive bishop
- Frankfurt Airport workers halt strike for talks
- Obama praises Merkel’s euro crisis leadership
- Berlin sees 'no need' to boost EU firewall fund
- Milder weather on the way for the weekend
- Expanding drone fleet raises privacy concerns
23 February
- Germany's biggest political scandals
- Young German men wary of being hairy
- Court throws out Holocaust-denial case
- What's on in Germany: February 23 - 29
- Archaeologists show off priceless gold haul
- Allianz profits 'fell by half in 2011'
- Neighbours want fence to hide new hospice
- Business confidence index hits 7-month high
- Germany remembers victims of neo-Nazi gang
- Commerzbank profits halved in 2011
- Man blames TV ad for driving BMW into pond
- Holocaust denial ‘pub talk’ legal – sometimes
- Greek journalist called Merkel 'dirty Berlin slut'
24 February
- Bankruptcy hitting the young and elderly
- Company issued false 'idiot tests'
- Germany wants Serbia in European Union
- Cut in solar power support sparks row
- Bibliophile bureaucrat banged up for book burglary
- Robust growth, low joblessness slash deficit
- Man admits giving gun to neo-Nazi terrorists
- Germans ditch Afghan base after Koran burning
- German-Iranian friction boosts Bratwurst prices
- VW more than doubles net profit in 2011
- Mayan 'apocalypse' codex goes on display
25 February
- Fashion designer Jil Sander returns to label
- Bundesbank boss defends crisis record
- Teens escape autobahn bus blaze
- Secret services ramp up online surveillance
- Frankfurt Airport strike looms as talks collapse
- Germany offers to send tax men to Greece
26 February
- WBA heavyweight Povetkin beats Huck
- Lagerfeld loves Merkel's 'beautiful blue eyes'
- Interior minister: Greece should exit eurozone
- Frankfurt Airport strike resumes Sunday evening
- Mystery Braunschweig donor strikes again
- Giving sausage a face
27 February
- Strike grounds one in nine Frankfurt flights
- Oscars go to The Artist, German tech rewarded
- Police shoot dead man throwing bottles
- Germany withdraws staff from Afghan ministries
- Merkel gets beer shower
- UEFA's Platini backs Germany to win Euro
- Balaclava-clad child killer jailed for life
- Early flowers greet spring
- Petition demands more women in top media jobs
- Siemens to forgive Greek debt amid bribery deal
- Parliament strongly backs new Greek bailout
28 February
- Herring fleet nets record catch despite seals
- Frankfurt Airport union aims for total shut-down
- Kohl: Europe still about war and peace
- Court rules rapid euro crisis group illegal
- Müller and Pepsi unite to bring Yanks yoghurt
- Consumer confidence hits year high
- House of Prussia sells historical diamond
- Germany revs up traffic violations system
- Nazi salutes aimed at Israeli footballer
- German objections stop euro firewall talks