2011 in Germany
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See also: | Other events of 2011 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
2011 in Germany are the events and situation of the
Incumbents
- President: Christian Wulff
- Chancellor: Angela Merkel
Aerospace
A German X-ray observatory in Space called
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) provided the framing cameras for the Dawn spacecraft, which arrived at asteroid 4 Vesta in mid-2011.[9][10] The DLR, which is Germany's space agency took on Hansjörg Dittus as an executive Board member for space research and development in June.[11]
Another space project Germany was involved with was the
Bundeswehr
In May 2011 the German Bundeswehr had 188,000 professional soldiers and 31,000 18‑ to 25‑year‑old conscripts who served for at least six months.
Until 2011, military service was compulsory for men at age 18, and conscripts served six-month tours of duty; conscientious objectors could instead opt for an equal length of Zivildienst (civilian service), or a six-year commitment to (voluntary) emergency services like a fire department or the Red Cross. On 1 July 2011 conscription was officially suspended and replaced with a voluntary service.[4][16]
Churches
The Pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, made his first official visit to Germany in 2011.[17] In 2011, there were 25 million Catholics in Germany, which is about one third of the population.(BBC, 2011)[17] Pope Benedict XVI was welcomed by the Chancellor and the President of Germany, and then made visits across the country, such as with leaders of the Lutheran Church.[17]
Chancellor
The Chancellor of Germany was named the fourth most powerful person in the world in 2011.[18] A poll in August 2011 found the Chancellor's coalition with 36% support.[19]
Elections
There were a number of elections in Germany in 2011 including:
- Baden-Württemberg state election, 2011
- Berlin state election, 2011
- Bremen state election, 2011[20]
- Hamburg state election, 2011
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2011
- Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011
- Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2011
Sporting events
Some examples of sporting events hosted in Germany.
- 2011 German Masters
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2011 German Grand Prix
- 2011 German Figure Skating Championships
Music and Movies
On 14 May 2011, there was a Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Renewable energy
By January 2011, around 17% of electricity, 8% of heat and 6% of fuel used in Germany was generated from renewable sources, reducing Germany's energy imports (DENA, 2011).
In 2011, Germany's federal government worked on a plan for increasing
Eight nuclear power reactors in Germany were declared shutdown on 6 August 2011: Biblis A and B, Brunsbuettel, Isar 1, Kruemmel, Neckarwestheim 1, Philippsburg 1 and Unterweser.[26]
Incumbents
Federal level
- President – Christian Wulff
- Chancellor – Angela Merkel
State level
- Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg – Stefan Mappus (until 12 May), Winfried Kretschmann
- Minister-President of Bavaria – Horst Seehofer
- Mayor of Berlin – Klaus Wowereit
- Minister-President of Brandenburg – Matthias Platzeck
- Mayor of Jens Boehrnsen
- Mayor of Hamburg – Christoph Ahlhaus (until 7 March), Olaf Scholz
- Minister-President of Hesse – Volker Bouffier
- Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Erwin Sellering
- Minister-President of Niedersachsen – David McAllister
- Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia – Hannelore Kraft
- Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate – Kurt Beck
- Minister-President of Saarland – Peter Mueller (until 10 August), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
- Minister-President of Saxony – Stanislaw Tillich
- Minister-President of Wolfgang Boehmer (until 19 April), Reiner Haseloff
- Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein – Peter Harry Carstensen
- Minister-President of Thuringia – Christine Lieberknecht
Events
- 7 January – A major food scandal erupts.
- 7 January – Due to thawing weather conditions, several rivers burst their banks.
- 20 February – Hamburg state election, 2011. German party SPDwins a majority.
- 1 March – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns as German defence minister.
- 2 March – Two U.S. soldiers are killed and two wounded in the 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting.
- 15 March – German chancellor nuclear power plants.
- 20 March – Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2011
- 27 March – Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011
- 3 April – Guido Westerwelle announced his resignation as party leader of German liberal Free Democratic Party after ten years in these position.
- 12 May – Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology to politician Philipp Rösler. Daniel Bahr becomes next German Federal Minister of Health.
- 12 May – Green Party Minister-President in Germany, he leads a Green/SPDcoalition.
- 14 May – Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf
- 22 May – Bremen state election, 2011 in Bremen
- 30 May – German government announces plans to abandon nuclear power entirely by 2022.
- 31 May – Journalist and weather presenter false rape accusations.[27]
- May – 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreakin northern Germany
- 26 June – 17 July – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, won by Japan.
- 30 June – Tennis: Germany's Sabine Lisicki is knocked out in the semi-finals of the women's singles at Wimbledon, having made it further in the tournament than previously expected.
- 1 July – Conscription ends in Germany
- 7 July – German Bundestag allowed Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
- 2 September – Euro 2012, with a 6–2 win over Austria.
- 4 September – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2011
- 7 September – The bailouts.
- 18 September – Berlin state election, 2011 – Klaus Wowereit of the SPD is re-elected as Mayor. The FDP is voted out of the Berlin parliament, while the Pirate Partyis voted in.
- 11 October – Euro 2012 qualifying, defeating Belgium3–1.
- 4 November – Bosphorus serial murders: Far-right extremists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt die in a fire in Zwickau while Beate Zschaepe hands herself in to the police. Together, they were found to be responsible for a series of racially motivated murders and the murder of policewoman Michele Kiesewetter in Heilbronnin 2007.
- 8 November – The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was officially inaugurated by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French Prime Minister François Fillon at the ceremony held in Lubmin.
- 2 December – For .
- 5 December – An International Conference on Afghanistan is held in Bonn.
- 23 December – Christian Wulff and Angela Merkel attend the funeral of Václav Havel in Prague.
Deaths
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- 1 January – Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, actor.
- 3 January – Eva Strittmatter, 80, author.
- 6 January – Gad Granach, 95, memoirist.
- 13 January – Hellmut Lange, 87, actor.
- 24 January – Bernd Eichinger, 61, film producer and director.
- 10 February – Claus Helmut Drese, 88, theatre and opera administrator.
- 11 February – Josef Pirrung, 61, footballer.
- 16 February – Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, writer and editor.
- 19 February – Dietrich Stobbe, 72, politician, former Mayor of Berlin.
- 20 February – Helmut Ringelmann, 84, film and television producer.
- 23 February – Gustav Just, 89, journalist and politician.
- 19 March – Knut, 4, polar bear.
- 3 April – Ulli Beier, 89, editor, writer and scholar.
- 4 April – Witta Pohl, 74, actress.
- 6 April – Hans Tiedge, 73, spy.
- 30 April – Egon Drews, 84, canoeist.
- 7 May – Gunter Sachs, 78, German-Swiss photographer and art collector.
- 8 May – Hans-Georg Borck, 89, military officer.
- 30 May – Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, DJ, musician and radio host.
- 31 May – Hans Keilson, 101, German-Dutch author, doctor and psychoanalyst.
- 4 June – Curth Flatow, 91, screenwriter and dramatist.
- 14 June – Peter Schamoni, 77, director and producer.
- 18 June – Ulrich Biesinger, 77, footballer.
- 30 June – Georg Sterzinsky, 75, cardinal.
- 4 July – Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian nobleman and politician, died in Bavaria.
- 4 July – Gerhard Unger, 95, opera singer.
- 13 July – Heinz Reincke, 86, actor.
- 14 July – Leo Kirch, 84, media entrepreneur.
- 17 July – Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish activist.
- 20 July – Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
- 28 July – Bernd Clüver, 63, Schlager singer.
- 3 August – Rudolf Brazda, 98, Concentration camp prisoner.
- 4 August – Conrad Schnitzler, 74, musician.
- 14 August – Friedrich Schoenfelder, 94, actor.
- 22 August – Vicco von Bülow(Loriot), 87, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.
- 31 August – Rosel Zech, 69, actress.
- 6 September – Hans Apel, 79, politician.
- 7 September – 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash)
- 14 September – Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
- 17 September – Kurt Sanderling, 98, conductor.
- 28 September – Heidi, opossum.
- 2 October – Peter Przygodda, 69, film director.
- 12 October – Heinz Bennent, 90, actor.
- 17 October – Manfred Gerlach, 83, politician.
- 18 October – Friedrich Kittler, 68, literary scholar and media theorist.
- 28 October – Jiri Grusa, 72, Czech diplomat and author, died in Hanover.
- 29 October – Walter Norris, 79, American musician and pianist, died in Berlin.
- 30 October – Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player.
- 3 November – H. G. Francis (Hans Gerhard Franciskowsky), 75, author of popular fiction.
- 12 November – Eva Monley, 88, German-born Kenyan film location scout.
- 14 November – Franz Josef Degenhardt, 79, singer, poet, novelist and satirist.
- 22 November –
- Kristian Schultze, 66, musician.
- Hans Reichel, 62, guitarist.
- 1 December – Christa Wolf, 82, writer and poet.
- 3 December – SSmember.
- 6 December – Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and widow of Roy Orbison.
- 11 December – Hans Heinz Holz, 84, Marxist philosopher.
- 13 December – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, footballer.
- 15 December – Walter Giller, 84, actor.
- 21 December – Werner Otto, 102, businessman and entrepreneur.
- 24 December –
- Johannes Heesters, 108, actor and singer, stroke.[28]
- Walter Söhne, 98, agronomist.[29]
- 25 December – Hans-Heinrich Isenbart, 88, sports commentator.[30]
See also
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