2001 in Germany

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Events in the year 2001 in Germany.

Incumbents

• President – Johannes Rau
• Chancellor – Gerhard Schröder

Events

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

Deaths

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

See also

• 2001 in German television

References