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← 2000 1999 1998 2001 in Germany → 2002 2003 2004
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See also:	Other events of 2001 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

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

See also

• 2001 in German television

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