2021 in Germany

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Events in the year 2021 in Germany.

• President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier
• Chancellor:
  • Angela Merkel (until 8 December 2021)
  • Olaf Scholz (from 8 December 2021)

• COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

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• 4 January – The COVID-19 lockdown is extended until 31 January.^[1][2]
• 15/16 January  – January 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election
• 4 March – most of Germany's major media outlets reports that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had placed Alternative for Germany AfD under surveillance as a suspected extremist group.^[3][4]
• 14 March  – 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election
• 14 March  – 2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
• 14 March  – 2021 Hessian local elections
• 6 June  – 2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election
• 25 June  – 2021 Würzburg stabbing
• 12 July  – the 2021 European floods began
• 27 July  – 2021 Leverkusen explosion
• 26 September  – 2021 German federal election
• 26 September  – 2021 Berlin state election
• 26 September  – 2021 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
• 4/16 December  – December 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election

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• 3 January – Renate Lasker-Harpprecht, writer and journalist (b. 1924)
• 13 January – Bernd Kannenberg, race walker, Olympic champion. (b. 1942)
• 13 January – Siegfried Fischbacher, magicians and entertainers (b. 1939)
• 30 January – Wilhelm Knabe, ecologist and politician (b. 1923)
• 2 February – Heike Fleßner, educationalist (b. 1944)
• 23 February – Heinz Hermann Thiele, businessman (b. 1941)
• 24 February – Wolfgang Boettcher, cellist (b. 1935)
• 16 March – Sabine Schmitz, racing driver and television personality (b. 1969)
• 17 March – Gerhard Augustin, music producer (b. 1941)

• 25 March – Uta Ranke-Heinemann, theologian (b. 1927)
• 26 March – Ursula Happe, swimmer, Olympic champion (b. 1926)
• 6 April – Hans Küng, Swiss-born priest and theologian (b. 1928)
• 24 April – Christa Ludwig, German soprano (b. 1928)^[5]
• 2 July – Bill Ramsey, German-American singer (b. 1931)
• 17 July – Hermann von Richthofen, German diplomat (b. 1933)

• 23 July – Alfred Biolek, German entertainer and television producer (b. 1934)
• 23 July – Klaus Wilhelm Roggenkamp, German mathematician (b. 1940)
• 24 July – Herbert Köfer, German actor, voice artist, and television presenter (b. 1931)
• 4 August – Karl Heinz Bohrer, German essayist (b. 1932)

• 12 August – Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician (b. 1930)
• 15 August – Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945)
• 27 August – Heide Keller, German actress (b. 1939)
• 4 September – Ludwig Haas, German actor (b. 1933)
• 4 September – Jörg Schlaich, German structural engineer (b. 1934)
• 5 September – Jan Hecker, German diplomat (b. 1967)
• 9 September – Hans Pfann, German athlete (b. 1920)
• 15 October – Gerd Ruge, German journalist (b. 1928)
• 27 October – Bettina Gaus, German journalist (b. 1956)
• 22 November – Volker Lechtenbrink, German actor (b. 1944)
• 3 December – Horst Eckel, German football player (b. 1932)

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