2011 in Germany - Deaths

Deaths

• January 1 - Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, actor.
• January 3 - Eva Strittmatter, 80, author.
• January 6 - Gad Granach, 95, memoirist.
• January 13 - Hellmut Lange, 87, actor.
• January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, film producer and director.
• February 10 - Claus Helmut Drese, 88, theatre and opera administrator.
• February 11 - Josef Pirrung, 61, footballer.
• February 16 - Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, writer and editor.
• February 19 - Dietrich Stobbe, 72, politician, former Mayor of Berlin.
• February 20 - Helmut Ringelmann, 84, film and television producer.
• February 23 - Gustav Just, 89, journalist and politician.
• March 19 - Knut, 4, polar bear.
• April 3 - Ulli Beier, 89, editor, writer and scholar.
• April 4 - Witta Pohl, 74, actress.
• April 6 - Hans Tiedge, 73, spy.
• April 30 - Egon Drews, 84, canoeist.
• May 7 - Gunter Sachs, 78, German-Swiss photographer and art collector.
• May 8 - Hans-Georg Borck, 89, military officer.
• May 30 - Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, DJ, musician and radio host.
• May 31 - Hans Keilson, 101, German-Dutch author, doctor and psychoanalyst.
• June 4 - Curth Flatow, 91, screenwriter and dramatist.
• June 14 - Peter Schamoni, 77, director and producer.
• June 18 - Ulrich Biesinger, 77, footballer.
• June 30 - Georg Sterzinsky, 75, cardinal.
• July 4 - Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian nobleman and politician, died in Bavaria.
• July 4 - Gerhard Unger, 95, opera singer.
• July 13 - Heinz Reincke, 86, actor.
• July 14 - Leo Kirch, 84, media entrepreneur.
• July 17 - Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish activist.
• July 20 - Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
• July 28 - Bernd Clüver, 63, Schlager singer.
• August 3 - Rudolf Brazda, 98, Concentration camp prisoner.
• August 4 - Conrad Schnitzler, 74, musician.
• August 14 - Friedrich Schoenfelder, 94, actor.
• August 22 - Vicco von Bülow (Loriot), 87, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.
• August 31 - Rosel Zech, 69, actress.
• September 6 - Hans Apel, 79, politician.
• September 7 - Robert Dietrich, 25, ice hockey player, (plane crash)
• September 14 - Rudolf Moessbauer, 82, Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
• September 17 - Kurt Sanderling, 98, conductor.
• September 28 - Heidi, opossum.
• October 2 - Peter Przygodda, 69, film director.
• October 12 - Heinz Bennent, 90, actor.
• October 17 - Manfred Gerlach, 83, politician.
• October 18 - Friedrich Kittler, 68, literary scholar and media theorist.
• October 28 - Jiri Grusa, 72, Czech diplomat and author, died in Hanover.
• October 29 - Walter Norris, 79, American musician and pianist, died in Berlin.
• October 30 - Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player.
• November 3 - H. G. Francis (Hans Gerhard Franciskowsky), 75, author of popular fiction.
• November 12 - Eva Monley, 88, German-born Kenyan film location scout.
• November 14 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, 79, singer, poet, novelist and satirist.
• November 22 -
  • Kristian Schultze, 66, musician.
  • Hans Reichel, 62, guitarist.
• December 1 - Christa Wolf, 82, writer and poet.
• December 3 - Heinrich Sonne, 94, Waffen-SS member.
• December 6 - Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and widow of Roy Orbison.
• December 11 - Hans Heinz Holz, 84, Marxist philosopher.
• December 13 - Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, footballer.
• December 15 - Walter Giller, 84, actor.
• December 21 - Werner Otto, 102, businessman and entrepreneur.
• December 24 -
  • Johannes Heesters, 108, actor and singer, stroke.
  • Walter Söhne, 98, agronomist.
• December 25 - Hans-Heinrich Isenbart, 88, sports commentator.