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)