2021 in Germany
Events in the year 2021 in Germany. Incumbents President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier Chancellor: Angela Merkel (until 8 December 2021) Olaf Scholz (from 8 December 2021) Events 4 January – The COVID-19 lockdown is extended until 31 January. 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. 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 Deaths 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.