Germany’s Baseball-Bundesliga, the top level baseball league in the country, was established in 1982. The Mannheim Tornados dominated the league in the 1980s-90s, giving way to the Paderborn Untouchables in the early 2000s. The Regensburg Legionäre captured back-to-back-to-back-to-back championships in the 2010s.
Note that the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Edwin Jackson is the only German-born pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the majors. Jackson no-hit the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday, June 25, 2010 for a 1-0 interleague win at Tropicana Field. Jackson, the son of a U.S. Army officer, was born in Neu-Ulm (Bavaria) but moved to Columbus, Georgia, when he was 8 years old.
Our research has identified 16 no-hitters dating back to 2008, though there were likely many thrown between 1982 and 2007. If you have any additional information, please pass along lists, stories, box scores, anecdotes, etc. to dirk@nonohitters.com so we can flesh out this list.
Here are the Baseball-Bundesliga no-hitters dating back to 2008:
| 1 | Enorbel Marquez-Ramirez |
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| Solingen Alligators | |
 Saturday, May 24, 2008 (second game of doubleheader)Solingen Alligators 9, Bonn Capitals 0 Baseballpark Weyersberg (Solingen) (Perfect game) |
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| 2 | Eddie Aucoin |
| Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre | |
| Saturday, May 23, 2009 (second game of doubleheader) Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre 5, Saarlouis Hornets 0 Armin-Wolf-Arena (Regensburg) (Missed a perfect game on two hit batsmen) |
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| 3 | Eric Faint |
| Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre | |
| Saturday, August 7, 2010 Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre 7, Haar Disciples 0 Armin-Wolf-Arena (Regensburg) (No-hitter in his first start of Baseball-Bundesliga season) |
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| 4 | Nils Hartkopf |
| Haar Disciples | |
| Saturday, August 20, 2011 Haar Disciples 3, Paderborn Untouchables 0 Ahorn Ballpark (Paderborn) (Game 3 of quarterfinals) |
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| 5 | Brian Fields |
| Paderborn Untouchables | |
| Saturday April 21, 2012 (second game of doubleheader) Paderborn Untouchables 8, Dohren Wild Farmers 0 Ahorn Ballpark (Paderborn) |
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| 6 | Brian Fields |
| Haar Disciples | |
| Saturday, June 8, 2013 (second game of doubleheader) Haar Disciples 2, Mannheim Tornados 1 Ballpark Eglfing (Haar) |
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| 7 | Nick Renault |
| Solingen Alligators | |
| Saturday, June 8, 2013 (second game of doubleheader) Solingen Alligators 21, Berlin Sluggers 0 (7 innings) Baseballpark Weyersberg (Solingen) (Perfect game called after seven innings on mercy rule) |
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| 8 | Richard Olson |
| Stuttgart Reds | |
| Saturday, July 13, 2013 (second game of doubleheader) Stuttgart Reds 11, Tubingen Hawks 0 (7 innings) DB-Ballpark (Stuttgart) (Called after seven innings on mercy rule) |
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| 9 | Lukas Steinlein |
| Haar Disciples | |
| Saturday, May 10, 2014 (first game of doubleheader) Haar Disciples 11, Mannheim Tornados 0 (8 innings) Roberto Clemente Field (Manheim) (Steinlein’s teammate Josh Petersen hit for the cycle in this game) |
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| 10 | Johannes Krumm (7) Robert Gruber (2) |
| Heidenheim Heidekoepfe | |
| Sunday, June 29, 2014 (first game of doubleheader) Heidenheim Heidekoepfe 8, Bad Homburg Hornets 0 Heidenheim Heideköpfe – Ballpark (Heidenheim) |
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| 11 | Gianny Fracchiolla |
| Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre | |
| Saturday, April 11. 2015 (second game of doubleheader) Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre 10, Stuttgart Reds 0 DB-Ballpark (Stuttgart) |
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| 12 | Max Schmitz-Stercken |
| Bonn Capitals | |
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 (first game of doubleheader) Bonn Capitals 20, Dortmund Wanderers 0 Baseballstadion Rheinaue (Bonn) |
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| 13 | Tyler Lockwood |
| Heidenheim Heideköpfe | |
| Saturday, June 20, 2015 (second game of doubleheader) Heidenheim Heideköpfe 10, Tübingen Hawks 0 (8 innings) Reutlinger Wiesen (Tübingen) (Called after eight innings on mercy rule) |
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| 14 | Michael Torrealba |
| Mannheim Tornados | |
| Saturday, July 4, 2015 (second game of doubleheader) Mannheim Tornados 7, Bad Homburg Hornets 0 Taunus Baseballpark (Bad Homburg) (Torrealba lost his perfect game on a ninth-inning walk) |
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| 15 | RJ Hively |
| Heidenheim Heideköpfe | |
| Monday, September 9, 2018 Heidenheim Heideköpfe 11, Solingen Alligators 0 (7 innings) New Heideköpfe Ballpark (Heidenheim an der Brenz) (Game two of best of five semifinal series) |
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| 16 | Dustin Ward |
| Stuttgart Reds | |
| Saturday, June 8. 2019 Stuttgart Reds 10, Saarlouis Hornets 0 (7 innings) DB-Ballpark (Stuttgart) |
There was also a Baseball-Bundesliga pitcher who threw a seven-inning no-hitter in the 2007 European Championship:
| 1 | Manuel Möller, Mainz Athletics |
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| Germany | |
| Friday, September 8, 2007 Germany 10, Austria 0 (7 innings) Sant Boi Ballpark (Sant Boi, Spain) European Championship, called after seven innings on mercy rule |
Sources: Mister Baseball, Baseball de World, newspapers)
Title photo: Heidekoepfe_simon_guehring by Ralf König under license CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped and shaded.