The following is a list of events from the year 2001 in Germany.
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) 2 October – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906) 5 October – Emilie Schindler, German WWII humanitarian (b. 1907) 10 October – Gabriele Wülker, German social scientist and civil servant (b. 1911) 13 October – Fritz Fromm, German handball player, Olympic champion (1936) (b. 1913) 23 November – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (b. 1928)
See also 2001 in German television
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