2001 in Germany

The following is a list of events from the year 2001 in Germany.

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See also:	Other events of 2001 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• President – Johannes Rau
• Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder

Events

• 7–18 February – 51st Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 March – Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001
• 25 March
  • Baden-Württemberg state election, 2001
  • Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2001
• 13 August – Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen is opened.
• 23 September – Hamburg state election, 2001
• 21 October – Berlin state election, 2001
• Date unknown – German company ZF Sachs was sold to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, and renamed to ZF Sachs AG.

Deaths

• 14 January – Burkhard Heim, German theoretical physicist (b. 1925)
• 31 January – Heinz Starke, German politician (b. 1911)
• 28 March – Günther Treptow, German opera singer (b. 1907)
• 26 April – Ruth Hellberg, German actress (b. 1906)
• 25 June – Kurt Hoffmann, German film director (b. 1910)
• 5 July – Hannelore Kohl, German first wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (b. 1933)
• 8 July – Ernst Baier, German figure skater (b. 1905)
• 31 July – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
• 20 September – Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, German journalist (b. 1918)
• 23 November – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (b. 1928)

See also

• 2001 in German television