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
• 31 January – Heinz Starke, German politician
• 28 March – Günther Treptow, German opera singer
• 26 April – Ruth Hellberg, German actress
• 25 June – Kurt Hoffmann, German film director
• 5 July – Hannelore Kohl, German first wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
• 8 July – Ernst Baier, German figure skater
• 31 July – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 20 September – Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, German journalist
• 2 October – Franz Biebl, German composer
• 5 October – Emilie Schindler, German WWII humanitarian
• 23 November – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician