2011 in Germany - Events

Events

  • January 7 - A major food scandal erupts.
  • January 7 - Due to thawing weather conditions, several rivers burst their banks.
  • February 20 - Hamburg state election, 2011. German party SPD wins a majority.
  • March 1 - Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns as German defence minister.
  • March 2 - Two U.S. soldiers are killed and two wounded in the 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting.
  • March 15 - German chancellor Angela Merkel shuts down the seven oldest German nuclear power plants.
  • March 20 - Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2011
  • March 27 - Baden-Württemberg state election, 2011 and Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011
  • April 3 - Guido Westerwelle announced his resignation as party leader of German liberal Free Democratic Party after ten years in these position.
  • May 12 - Rainer Brüderle lost his Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology to politician Philipp Rösler. Daniel Bahr becomes next German Federal Minister of Health.
  • May 12 - Winfried Kretschmann becomes Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg. As the first Green Party Minister-President in Germany, he leads a Green/SPD coalition.
  • May 14 - Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf
  • May 22 - Bremen state election, 2011 in Bremen
  • May 30 - German government announces plans to abandon nuclear power entirely by 2022.
  • May - 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in northern Germany
  • June 26 - July 17 - 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, won by Japan.
  • June 30 - 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.
  • July 1 - Conscription ends in Germany
  • July 7 - German Bundestag allowed Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
  • September 2 - Germany secures qualification for Euro 2012, with a 6-2 win over Austria.
  • September 4 - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, 2011
  • September 7 - The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rules that Germany can continue to contribute to Eurozone bailouts.
  • September 18 - 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 Party is voted in.
  • October 11 - Germany kept its 100% record in Euro 2012 qualifying, defeating Belgium 3-1.
  • November 4 - 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 Heilbronn in 2007.
  • November 8 - The Nord Stream 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.
  • December 2 - For Euro 2012, Germany is drawn into a group with the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal.
  • December 5 - An International Conference on Afghanistan is held in Bonn.
  • December 23 - Christian Wulff and Angela Merkel attend the funeral of Vaclav Havel in Prague.

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