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| 1993, May 28 |
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| The Constitutional Court ruled that a woman's right to abortion on demand up to the twelfth week of pregnancy was not constitutionally guaranteed. Ruling that abortion in the first 12 weeks of gestation is not a criminal offense, the court left specific legislation on the issue to be enacted in the federal legislature. | 1 |
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| May 29 |
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| In the wake of debate in the Bundestag over a constitutional ammendment to limit political asylum, arsonists attacked a house in Solingen, killing five female Turks, aged 4 to 27. Three days of demonstrations by Turks and Germans against racist violence followed in Solingen and other German cities. | 2 |
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| July |
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| Unemployment figures for Germany indicated a considerable rise over the previous year's rates. In western Germany, unemployment reached 2,300,000, or 7.5 percent of the total workforce; in the former East Germany, 1,170,000, 15.3 percent of the workforce, found themselves unemployed. | 3 |
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| July 1 |
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| A constitutional amendment to Article 16 of the Basic Law came into force. The new Article 16a imposed greater restrictions on the extension of political asylum to persons arriving from other countries. | 4 |
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| Nov. 25 |
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| Amid the rising unemployment, Volkswagen and the metal workers' union agreed to introduce a four-day, 28.8-hour workweek beginning Jan. 1, along with 10 percent pay cuts, as an alternative to proposed layoffs of 30,000 of the 100,000 German Volkswagen workers. | 5 |
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| Nov. 26 |
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| The Bundestag approved a federal budget that included significant cuts in social security payments, child allowances, and unemployment benefits. | 6 |
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