2021 in Germany
Events in the year 2021 in Germany.
Incumbents
Ongoing
Events
January
- 4 January – The COVID-19 lockdown is extended until 31 January.
- 15/16 January – January 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election
March
- 4 March – most of Germany's major media outlets reports that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had placed Alternative for Germany AfD under surveillance as a suspected extremist group.
- 14 March
- * 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election
- * 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
- * 2021 Hessian local elections
June
July
- 12 July – the 2021 European floods began
- 27 July – 2021 Leverkusen explosion
September
- 26 September
- * 2021 German federal election
- * 2021 Berlin state election
- * 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
December
Deaths
January
- 3 January – Renate Lasker-Harpprecht, writer and journalist
- 13 January – Bernd Kannenberg, race walker, Olympic champion.
- 13 January – Siegfried Fischbacher, magicians and entertainers
- 30 January – Wilhelm Knabe, ecologist and politician
February
- 2 February – Heike Fleßner, educationalist
- 23 February – Heinz Hermann Thiele, businessman
- 24 February – Wolfgang Boettcher, cellist
March
- 16 March – Sabine Schmitz, racing driver and television personality
- 17 March – Gerhard Augustin, music producer
- 25 March – Uta Ranke-Heinemann, theologian
- 26 March – Ursula Happe, swimmer, Olympic champion
April
- 6 April – Hans Küng, Swiss-born priest and theologian
- 24 April – Christa Ludwig, German soprano
May
- 9 May – Karl-Günther von Hase, German diplomat and politician
July
- 2 July – Bill Ramsey, German-American singer
- 17 July – Hermann von Richthofen, German diplomat
- 23 July – Alfred Biolek, German entertainer and television producer
- 23 July – Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp, German mathematician
- 24 July – Herbert Köfer, German actor, voice artist, and television presenter
August
- 4 August – Karl Heinz Bohrer, German essayist
- 12 August – Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
- 15 August – Gerd Müller, German footballer
- 27 August – Heide Keller, German actress
September
- 4 September
- * Ludwig Haas, German actor
- * Jörg Schlaich, German structural engineer
- 5 September – Jan Hecker, German diplomat
- 9 September – Hans Pfann, German athlete
October
- 15 October – Gerd Ruge, German journalist
- 27 October – Bettina Gaus, German journalist
November
- 22 November – Volker Lechtenbrink, German actor
December
- 3 December – Horst Eckel, German football player