Germany 2011

Germany 2011
With Winfried Kretschmann, a Green politician is elected head of government of a German state for the first time in a red-green coalition in Baden-Württemberg.
Japan wins the women's soccer world championship in Germany.	The 21st apostolic journey of Benedict XVI took place from September 22nd to 25th with the Pope's visit to Germany . instead of.

The defining political issues in Germany in 2011 included the ongoing euro crisis , the nuclear phase-out and, from December, the beginning of the Wulff affair , which ultimately led to the resignation of the then Federal President Christian Wulff in 2012 .

While the women's soccer world championship held in Germany was one of the highlights of the sporting year , the Pope's visit , as the most important event for Catholics, was also accompanied by clear criticism and protests.

politics

Overview of politics
January 1st	Germany becomes a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council
January 3rd	The last conscripts are called up
January 12th	The Federal Cabinet extends the Bundeswehr mandate of the NATO ISAF mission by a further twelve months and sets the period for a troop withdrawal between 2011 and 2014.
22nd of January	The Saarland Prime Minister and CDU state chairman Peter Müller has announced that he will be retiring from both offices early this year.
January 28th	The Bundestag approved the extension of the Afghanistan mission by one year with a large majority . The Bundestag elects the former SED opponent and civil rights activist Roland Jahn as the new Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files .
February 5th	With the exchange of the ratification documents by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov at the Munich Security Conference , the New START disarmament treaty on the disarmament of nuclear weapons between the two countries comes into force.
February 9	Because of the bypassing of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament when buying back shares in the energy supplier EnBW in December 2010, the opposition parties SPD and Green are filing a constitutional complaint against Prime Minister Stefan Mappus .
1st March	Resignation of Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
2nd March	The previous Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière , will be the new Minister of Defense, while Hans-Peter Friedrich will take over the Ministry of the Interior.
March 12th	Around 60,000 demonstrators in Stuttgart form a human chain between the headquarters of the Baden-Württemberg state government and the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant , protesting for an immediate nuclear phase-out .
the 14th of March	In response to the accidents in Japanese nuclear power plants after the Tōhoku earthquake , the federal government imposed a three-month nuclear moratorium .
25th March	The Bundestag decides that the Bundeswehr with up to 300 soldiers in AWACS -Aufklärungsflügen over Afghanistan participate is.
26th of March	In several cities in the country a total of around 250,000 opponents of nuclear power are demonstrating for an immediate nuclear phase-out .
April 1st	The energy company RWE is filing a complaint with the administrative court against the shutdown of Unit A of the Biblis nuclear power plant resulting from the nuclear moratorium .
3rd of April	Guido Westerwelle gives up the chairmanship of the FDP Start of the three-day federal congress of the German Police Union
April 14th	The Federal Office for Radiation Protection found concentrations of cesium-137 in a borehole in the Asse mine, which was tested as a repository for radioactive waste , well above the limit value .
April 22	According to the arbitration commission of the Berlin district association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the former Berlin finance senator Thilo Sarrazin will not be excluded from the SPD.
May 9	Beginning of the census
12th of May	Rainer Brüderle resigns as Minister of Economics; his successor will be the designated FDP chairman Philipp Rösler . His previous office as Minister of Health will be taken over by Daniel Bahr .
May 13th	With more than 95 percent of the vote, Philipp Rösler is elected as the new federal party chairman of the FDP .
May 18	The Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament re- elects Kurt Beck as prime minister in the first round .
23. May	The four states of Berlin , Bremen , Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein are placed under the supervision of the Federal Government and the Länder by the Stability Council due to the threat of budgetary emergency.
15th June	The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität is withdrawing the PhD from MEP Silvana Koch-Mehrin ( FDP ) because of plagiarism in her thesis .
June 16	Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich opens the National Cyber ​​Defense Center in Bonn
June 30th	The Bundestag resolves to phase out nuclear power by 2022. With 57 of 83 votes, Jens Böhrnsen was confirmed in his office as President of the Senate and Mayor , while Karoline Linnert became his deputy .
July 1	The Conscription in Germany ends.
7th of July	The Bundestag decides to approve pre-implantation diagnostics within narrow limits.
August 1st	The Lower Saxony district of Soltau-Fallingbostel ( SFA ) is renamed the district of Heidekreis ( HK ).
August 10	The CDU politician Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is elected as the new Prime Minister by the Saarland Landtag in the second ballot .
August 11th	For the first time since the Federal Republic of Germany came into existence, a bilateral tax agreement is being negotiated with Switzerland .
August 14th	Christian von Boetticher resigns as a CDU top candidate and state party leader because of a previous love affair with a minor .
August 31	After the end of a ten-month test phase at Hamburg Airport , Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich announced that he would for the time being forego the widespread use of body scanners in air traffic.
September 4th	District reform Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
21st September	Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich bans the right-wing extremist aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives by decree .
September 29th	The Bundestag approves the expansion of the EFSF euro rescue fund .
October 7th	The Mayor of Munich Christian Ude is nominated as the top candidate for the state elections in Bavaria in 2013 .
8th October	The Chaos Computer Club publishes an analysis of the software known as "Federal Trojan" for state surveillance of telecommunications connections, according to which this software contains significant security gaps and unconstitutional functions.
23rd October	At the party congress in Erfurt, Die Linke decided on its first basic program.
October 26th	Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière presented the 2011 deployment concept .
30th of October	Ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the recruitment agreement with Turkey
November 1st	Horst Seehofer takes up the post of President of the Federal Council on a rotating basis . The Mayor of Frankfurt, Petra Roth, announced her resignation in July 2012.
November 8th	Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev officially open the Nord Stream pipeline in Lubmin .
November 24th	The House of Representatives re- elects Klaus Wowereit as governing mayor with 84 votes .
December 5th	Afghanistan Conference in the World Conference Center Bonn
December 7th	Gerhard Schindler becomes President of the Federal Intelligence Service .
December 14th	Christian Lindner resigns as General Secretary of the FDP.

Politically, the year was particularly marked by the debate about the nuclear phase-out and the euro rescue package . Especially with regard to domestic political affairs, both the state trojan analyzed by the Chaos Computer Club and the ongoing dispute over data retention between Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger caused controversy . In terms of foreign policy, Germany stood out for its abstention from UN Security Council Resolution 1973 , which was intended to set up a no-fly zone over the country in response to the civil war in Libya (2011) and to enable a NATO mission.

After the then Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg initiated the suspension of compulsory military service , he resigned because of the plagiarism affair surrounding his dissertation.

The recruitment agreement with Turkey was signed 50 years ago . The anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony in Munich and the arrival of the special train “50 Years of Migration” from Turkey at Munich Central Station.

The protest against Stuttgart 21 continues.

State elections were held in seven of the 16 federal states this year. While the FDP suffered heavy losses over the course of the year, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen was able to record the largest increase in members and votes in its history, mainly due to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima and the protest against Stuttgart 21 . With the election to the Berlin House of Representatives , the Pirate Party began to establish itself as a new parliamentary force.

In September, the number of registered unemployed fell to 2.796 million, the lowest level since 1991 . The unemployment rate was 6.6 percent.

2011 census

→ Main article : 2011 census

With the 2011 census, a census took place for the first time since 1984 . Around a third of all citizens, including all homeowners and selected other households, were obliged to answer a questionnaire. The deadline for the survey was Monday, May 9th. While massive protests took place at the 1984 census, the population demonstrated only marginally against the 2011 census.

After the Guttenberg plagiarism affair , Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigns as Minister of Defense.

Guttenberg plagiarism affair

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In February, the plagiarism affair surrounding the current Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg preoccupied the public. Several plagiarisms were discovered in his dissertation , which led to his doctoral degree being withdrawn from the University of Bayreuth on February 23 . On March 1, 2011 Guttenberg announced his resignation from all federal political offices. With the help of GuttenPlag Wiki and VroniPlag Wiki , plagiarism affairs arose from other academics such as FDP politician Silvana Koch-Mehrin and CDU politician Matthias Pröfrock , whose doctoral degrees were also revoked.

Reactions to the Fukushima nuclear disaster

In response to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima , the federal government initiated a safety review of all 17 German nuclear reactors and the three-month shutdown of the seven oldest nuclear power plants as part of the so-called nuclear moratorium (announced March 14, 2011) . On June 6, the decided Cabinet Merkel II the gradual phase out nuclear power by 2022 and thus took the decided in autumn 2010 life extensions back.

A total of around 250,000 opponents of nuclear power will demonstrate across Germany on March 26th

The catastrophe in Japan also reinforced the anti-nuclear movement in Germany. At the beginning of November there were massive protests in Wendland against a Castor transport from the La Hague reprocessing plant in northern France to the Gorleben interim storage facility . The demonstrators repeatedly managed to block the train, so that it did not arrive in Gorleben for 125 hours; this was the longest delay in a Castor transport until then.

Bundeswehr reform

One of the largest reforms in the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011 included the conversion of the Bundeswehr into a volunteer and professional army , which also represented the largest restructuring of the Bundeswehr since its foundation. Conscription , which had existed since July 1956, was suspended from July 2011.

On October 26th, Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière presented the Bundeswehr deployment concept , which stipulated that 31 of the 394 Bundeswehr locations should be closed and 90 significantly reduced. In 2011, the Bundeswehr had around 7,000 soldiers deployed abroad.

Wulff affair

→ Main article : Wulff affair

With the accusation of incorrectly answering an inquiry regarding the financing of his own home in the Lower Saxony state parliament in 2010, an affair began in December 2011 with the then Federal President Christian Wulff , which led to his resignation in February 2012. The allegations intensified after it became known that Wulff had tried to influence reporting by the Bild newspaper with a phone call . In the following weeks, Wulff was confronted with further allegations of accepting benefits. He announced his resignation on February 17, 2012.

State Trojan affair

The controversial state trojan was developed by DigiTask.

In October, the Chaos Computer Club published the result of its analysis of the leaked state Trojan , sparking a controversial domestic political debate. The software, which was commissioned by the Bavarian State Government and developed by DigiTask , enabled the investigative authorities to reload any monitoring modules and copy intimate data, which, however, contradicted the limits set by the Federal Constitutional Court. In addition, gross design and implementation errors would have led to glaring security gaps.

household

The federal budget was in 2011 is lower by five billion euro debt recorded as first thought. The reasons were higher tax revenues (due to a better economy) and low capital market interest rates . According to the Ministry of Finance, the federal government received EUR 248.1 billion more in tax revenue than expected. At the same time, spending on non-employed people was lower.

FDP crisis

For the FDP , which is part of the government, 2011 was the beginning of an ongoing crisis. After foreign minister, vice chancellor and party chairman Guido Westerwelle was exposed to increasing criticism of his office, he did not run again as party chairman at the party congress on May 13 and thus gave up the office. Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group, Philipp Rösler became party leader, economy minister and vice chancellor. Rösler's successor as Minister of Health was Daniel Bahr . In surveys, the party fell to around three percent despite the change in personnel. On December 14th, the then General Secretary Christian Lindners resigned from his position.

The FDP suffered significant losses in all of the seven state elections in 2011, which meant that it failed to pass the five percent hurdle in Saxony-Anhalt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin and no longer entered the parliaments there could move in.

Turbulence among the Greens

With the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann becomes the first Green Prime Minister in Germany.

Alliance 90 / The Greens were able to record the highest approval ratings in their history due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the protest against Stuttgart 21 . In polls, the party achieved up to 28 percent. The number of members also rose to 59,000 at the end of the year, which was the largest increase in the party's history. With the state elections in Baden-Württemberg , the Greens were able to appoint a Minister-President for the first time in Winfried Kretschmann . However, the attempt to achieve a similar success with Renate Künast in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives failed . In surveys, the party's values ​​fell again to 14 to 17 percent and the Berlin regional association got caught up in internal disputes.

Heads of government

Federation Federal President : Christian Wulff Federal Chancellor : Angela Merkel countries Prime ministers of Baden-Württemberg : Stefan Mappus (until May 12), Winfried Kretschmann Prime Minister of Bavaria : Horst Seehofer Governing Mayor of Berlin : Klaus Wowereit Prime Minister of Brandenburg : Matthias Platzeck Governing Mayor of Bremen : Jens Böhrnsen Governing Mayors of Hamburg : Christoph Ahlhaus (until March 7th), Olaf Scholz Prime Minister of Hesse : Volker Bouffier Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania : Erwin Sellering Prime Minister of Lower Saxony : David McAllister Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia : Hannelore Kraft Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate : Kurt Beck Prime ministers of Saarland : Peter Müller (until August 10th), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Prime Minister of Saxony : Stanislaw Tillich Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt : Wolfgang Böhmer (until April 19), Reiner Haseloff Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein : Peter Harry Carstensen Prime Minister of Thuringia : Christine Lieberknecht

Federal President Christian Wulff Chancellor Angela Merkel

elections

Overview elections
20. February	State election in Hamburg
March, 20th	State election in Saxony-Anhalt
27th of March	State election in Baden-Württemberg State election in Rhineland-Palatinate 2011 Local elections in Hesse Referendum in Hessen
May 22	Citizenship election in Bremen
September 4th	State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Local elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
September 11	Local elections in Lower Saxony
September 18	Election to the Berlin House of Representatives
November 27th	Referendum on Stuttgart 21

Seven elections to state parliaments took place during the year. With Olaf Scholz in Hamburg , Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Württemberg , Reiner Haseloff in Saxony-Anhalt and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Saarland, four new prime ministers moved into the state parliaments. The state election in Hamburg was scheduled on 20 February by the citizens after the 2008 ruling since black-green coalition was broken in the previous year and the senators of the GAL in the Senate Ahlhaus had resigned on August 28, 2011th The election resulted in the absolute majority of the SPD in the state parliament, which elected Olaf Scholz as first mayor on March 7, 2011 and the senators he had proposed on March 23, 2011 ( Senate Scholz I ). After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on March 20, the coalition of CDU and FDP that had ruled until then was replaced by a CDU / SPD coalition led by the CDU under Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer . After the state election in Baden-Württemberg a week later , which was particularly influenced by the protest against Stuttgart 21 and the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants , the CDU had to hand over government responsibility to a coalition of the Greens and SPD after 58 years. Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green Prime Minister of a German state . At the same time, the state elections were held in Rhineland-Palatinate , with the SPD losing almost ten percent and the Greens moving into parliament with over ten percent more votes. In the state election in Bremen , the CDU fell behind the Greens for the first time. Furthermore, after the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the Greens were represented in all German state parliaments for the first time. In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives , the Pirate Party made it into a state parliament for the first time.

On March 27, both the referendum to include the debt brake in the Hessian state constitution and the local elections took place in Hesse . Further local elections took place on September 4th in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and on September 11th in Lower Saxony .

After the topic of Stuttgart 21 had already dominated the election campaign for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, the state-wide referendum on Stuttgart 21 attracted special nationwide attention. A majority of 58.8 percent voted against the bill and therefore in favor of maintaining state funding for the project.

Law

• January 11th : The public prosecutor's office in Duisburg starts investigations against 16 accused of the accident at the 2010 Love Parade .
• February 10th : The regional court sentenced the father of the gunman von Winnenden to a prison sentence of one year and nine months on probation for negligent homicide .
• May 4 : The Federal Constitutional Court tilts the preventive detention
• May 12 : District Court II sentenced the former overseer of the Sobibor extermination camp, John Demjanjuk, to five years in prison for aiding and abetting murder in at least 27,900 cases.
• May 20 : The entire network infrastructure of the Pirate Party is confiscated by the Federal Criminal Police Office due to a request for legal assistance from France , as a third party allegedly planned a criminal offense against a public service of the party.
• May 31 : The Mannheim Regional Court acquitted the Swiss moderator Jörg Kachelmann in the Kachelmann trial of the allegation of rape .
• July 4th : Regensburg / Germany : The appeal hearing against Richard Williamson begins before the district court on charges of sedition . The trial ends on July 11th with Williamson being sentenced to a fine of 6,500 euros.
• July 5 : Oral hearing on the lawsuit against the Monetary Union Financial Stability Act , which enables Germany to participate in the emergency loans for Greece , begins before the Federal Constitutional Court .
• September 7th : The Federal Constitutional Court rejects constitutional complaints against the euro rescue package decided by the European Union , but at the same time strengthens the Bundestag's rights of participation .
• September 9th : The district court confirms that the Samsung group is not allowed to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer model , as its design imitates the protected design of the Apple iPad .
• September 15 : According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice, German courts are no longer allowed to simply deny men the clarification of paternity and contact with their alleged children. It does not matter that the offspring have a legal father.
• September 19 : The 18-year-old student Torben P., who first knocked down a man in Berlin 's Friedrichstrasse subway station in April and then kicked him when he was already on the ground, is sentenced to two years by the Berlin district court for attempted manslaughter and sentenced to ten months youth imprisonment.
• September 29th : Because of the murder of ten-year-old Mirco from Grefrath , the district court sentenced the confessed defendant to life imprisonment.
• October 11 : The Hessian Administrative Court in Kassel stops night flights in Frankfurt am Main a few days before the new northwest runway opens .
• October 27 : The painter Wolfgang Beltracchi is on probation for six years in one of the largest art forgery trials of the past decades, his wife Helene Beltracchi for four years, her sister Jeanette for one year and nine months and the friend and accomplice Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus Sentenced to five years in prison.
• November 3 : A member of the rocker band Hells Angels , who shot a police officer through his apartment door, is acquitted by the Federal Court of Justice because he assumed a threat from the rival gang Banditos and acted in putative defense.
• November 4th : Harald Range succeeds Monika Harms as Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice .
• November 9th : The current five percent threshold clause in European elections violates the Basic Law after a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court .

Culture and society

• January 17th: The term “kebab murders” for the right-wing extremist series of murders against migrants becomes the bad word of the year
• European Green Capital Hamburg 2011

BUGA 2011 : Landscape park in front of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz with a view of the mountain station of the Rhine cable car

• 17th to 20th March: Leipzig Book Fair , main country is Serbia
• April 1: Big Brother Awards # 2011
• April 12: Opening of the 45th Art Cologne
• April 15 to October 16: Federal Garden Show in Koblenz
• April 17: The Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari is awarded the Theodor Haecker Prize .
• 17.-29. May: International Mahler Festival in Leipzig
• May 18 to June 5: Dresden Music Festival
• May 23: The international women’s football culture festival is awarded this year's Gustav Heinemann Citizen Prize of the SPD .
• 27.-29. May: Rhineland-Palatinate Day in Prüm
• 2nd - 12th June: Handel Festival in Halle (Saale)
• June 3: After a false invitation to a private birthday party on Facebook , several of the 1,500 unwanted visitors in Hamburg are arrested.
• 10-19 June: Hessentag in Oberursel (Taunus)
• 11-21 June: Bach Festival in Leipzig
• June 27: After five German beech forests and the Fagus plant in Alfeld , UNESCO also names the Hamburg Wadden Sea and 111 pile dwellings in Germany and other countries as World Heritage .
• June 27: The monument conservator Gottfried Kiesow is awarded the national prize for his services to monument protection in Europe .
• July 2nd: Day of the Franks in Bad Kissingen
• 21.-24. July: The 26th Bochum Total takes place in Bochum .
• August 26: The German Language Association honors René Obermann , CEO of Deutsche Telekom , with the negative award Sprachpanscher of the year .
• 2-4 September: Mendelssohn Festival in Leipzig
• September 9th to October 9th: Beethovenfest Bonn
• September 11th: Open Monument Day , Topic: Romanticism, Realism, Revolution - The 19th Century. The stylistic versatility, the rapid technical progress and the social change of this era reflected in the architecture were shown. (Rhine) Romanticism, Classicism, Art Nouveau and the sober living quarters in the working-class quarters of large cities as well as technical and industrial monuments and the archeology of the 19th century filled the thematic framework. The nationwide opening was in Trier .
• 1st - 3rd October: North Rhine-Westphalia Day in Bonn
• October 14: The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden opens.
• October 25th: The Argentine-Israeli conductor and co-founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim is awarded the International Willy Brandt Prize for his commitment to international understanding .
• November 9th: Pius Heinz is the first German to win the World Poker Championship .
• December 3rd : The demolition of the Deutschlandhalle begins with the ceiling being blown up .
• December 16 : The Society for German Language selects the stress test as word of the year .

music

• List of number one hits in Germany (2011)
• Eurovision Song Contest 2011
• Echo award 2011

literature

• February 8 : The essay Outrage! by the former French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel appears in German.
• March 17 : The writer Clemens J. Setz , the non-fiction author Henning Ritter and the translator Barbara Conrad are awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
• May 18 : The writer Friedrich Christian Delius receives the Georg Büchner Prize .
• June 5 : Pastor and former GDR civil rights activist Joachim Gauck is awarded the Ludwig Börne Medal for his life's work .
• June 10 : The German Book Trade Association announces that the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• September 2011 # Thursday, September 1st : S. Fischer Verlag celebrates its 125th birthday in the Literaturhaus Frankfurt .
• October 10 : The Berlin writer Eugen Ruge is awarded the German Book Prize for his GDR family novel In times of waning light .
• 12. - 16th October : Book Fair . The host country is Iceland . At the end of the fair, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
• November 14th : The Chinese author, reporter, musician and poet Liao Yiwu is awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize in Munich .

Movie and TV

• Golden Camera 2011
• April 1 : Thomas Gottschalk is awarded the Grimme Prize for his life's work .
• April 8 : The feature film Vincent will Meer by Ralf Huettner is with the German Film Prize awarded.
• Berlin International Film Festival 2011
• June 17th : Thomas Bellut is elected artistic director of the Second German Television .
• September 11th : Günther Jauch returns to public television with his talk show of the same name .
• November 11th : Amid protests, the rapper Bushido is awarded the Bambi .
• December 3 : The feature film Melancholia by Lars von Trier is in Berlin with the European Film Prize awarded.
• December 3rd : Thomas Gottschalk moderates the show Wetten, dass ..? For the last time . .

Visual arts

• July 15 : The Hessian House Foundation sells the painting Darmstadt Madonna by Hans Holbein the Younger to the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth for an estimated price of 50 million euros .

Sports

• Basketball Bundesliga 2010/11
• Handball Bundesliga 2010/11
• Football Bundesliga 2010/11
• EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 2010/11
• Alpine World Ski Championships 2011
• Football Women's World Cup 2011
• European Women's Field Hockey Championship 2011
• Men's field hockey championship 2011
• European Darts Championship 2011
• DFB Cup 2010/11
• DEB Cup 2011/12
• DEB Women's Cup 2011
• DHB Cup 2010/11
• German Open 2011 (Badminton)
• German Badminton Championship 2011
• German Athletics Championships 2011
• European Gymnastics Championships 2011
• 2011 DTM season
• April 19: In the third game of the final series of the German Ice Hockey League , the Eisbären Berlin Grizzly Adams defeat Wolfsburg 5: 4, winning the final series 3: 0 games and are German ice hockey champions for the fifth time .
• June 26th: Marc Lieb , Lucas Luhr , Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard in a Manthey -Porsche win the 24-hour race .
• July 10th: The German triathlete Andreas Raelert sets a new world record over the Ironman distance at the Challenge Roth , and in the women’s race, the British Chrissie Wellington also wins a new world record .
• July 17th: At the ninth round of the motorcycle world championship at the Sachsenring , Dani Pedrosa won in MotoGP , Marc Márquez in Moto2 and Héctor Faubel in the 125 cm³ class.
• July 24: At the tenth race of this year's Formula 1 season at the Nürburgring , Lewis Hamilton wins in a McLaren ahead of Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari and Mark Webber in a Red Bull .
• August 13: In the final of the men's fistball world championship , Germany wins 4: 2 against Austria and is thus the 10th fistball world champion.
• AUG 28: With a 4: 2 final win over the Netherlands to win Germany the EuroHockey Nations Championships the men .
• September 25th: The Kenyan Patrick Makau repeats his victory in the Berlin Marathon last year and improves Haile Gebrselassie's world record by 21 seconds.
• November 24th : After repeated fanatic riots, the German Football Association excludes the second division Dynamo Dresden from the DFB Cup competition 2012/13 .
• December 18 : The biathlete Magdalena Neuner , the basketball player Dirk Nowitzki and the first men's team of the Borussia Dortmund football club are voted Germany's athletes of the year .

Environment and health

Course of HUS infections

• From May to the end of July, Germany in particular is affected by a HUS epidemic . The hitherto unknown, severe form of haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) with diarrhea appeared primarily in northern Germany and is most likely due to Egyptian fenugreek seeds .
• After the discovery of dioxin waste in animal feed, thousands of animals in several federal states have to be killed because of the risk of contamination.
• June 2nd : Frank Ulrich Montgomery , previous Vice President of the German Medical Association , is elected President.
• November 3 : The management of a Bremen hospital announces that three premature babies have died of dangerous intestinal germs since August.
• November 17th : The former forest director and co-founder of the Bavarian Forest National Park , Georg Sperber , is honored for his life's work at the award ceremony of the first German Nature Conservation Award in Bonn .

religion

Overview religion
February 2nd	Topping-out ceremony for the DITIB central mosque in Cologne
3 February	University theologians call for reforms in the Roman Catholic Church
May 15	Georg Häfner is beatified .
1st - June 5th	German Evangelical Church Congress
June 13th	The Catholic clergyman Alois Andritzki is beatified.
2nd July	Rainer Woelki is appointed archbishop of the local Catholic diocese .
September 3	Consecration of the Old Catholic Angélique Arnauld Church in Hanover
September 22nd - 25th	Pope visit to Germany
November 9th	Inauguration of the Beith-Schalom synagogue in Speyer

Referring to the cases of abuse that have become known at the Canisius-Kolleg Berlin and the deep crisis of the Roman Catholic Church resulting from these and other cases , theologians from universities, especially from German-speaking countries, called in February under the title Church 2011: A necessary departure for reform of the Roman Catholic Church .

Shortly after Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich took up his post, he sparked a controversial debate when he said before the Federal Press Conference on March 3 that there was "nowhere in history to prove" that Islam belongs to Germany. In doing so, he countered the then Federal President Christian Wulff, who had said after taking office that Islam was part of Germany.

After the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as part of Operation Neptune's Spear , a public debate about Christian values ​​sparked after Chancellor Angela Merkel said "I am delighted that bin Laden has been killed" and this comment was condemned by the Vatican.

The then Federal President Christian Wulff at the inauguration of the Beith-Schalom synagogue

On September 3rd, the Old Catholic Angélique Arnauld Church , which was completed in 2010, was consecrated. With the inauguration of the Beith-Schalom synagogue in Speyer on November 9th, the Jewish community received an important new synagogue . The topping-out ceremony for the construction of the DITIB Central Mosque in Cologne was celebrated on February 2nd. However, as originally planned, the building could not be completed at the turn of the year 2011/2012.

The 21st apostolic journey of Benedict XVI took place from September 22nd to 25th with the Pope's visit to Germany . instead of. The visit was the most important event for Catholics in Germany. However, the Pope's speech in the Bundestag caused political controversy. 55 organizations had also called for protests, which were directed primarily against the sexual morality of the church.

science and technology

Transformer platform of the offshore wind farm "Baltic I"

• March 14th Stephan Grill is awarded the Young Talent Prize and Cesare Montecucco the main prize of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize .
• March 16 : Ulla Bonas , Christian Büchel , Anja Feldmann , Kai-Uwe Hinrichs , Anthony A. Hyman , Bernhard Keimer , Franz Pfeiffer , Joachim Friedrich Quack , Gabriele Sadowski and Christine Silberhorn are awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .
• May 2nd : " Baltic 1 " is the first commercial offshore wind farm off the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
• October 25 : The first German hybrid power plant , which combines wind, hydrogen and biogas, is put into operation by Enertrag in Brandenburg .
• October 12th : Scientists in Tübingen succeed for the first time in deciphering the genetic material of the plague pathogen that triggered the so-called Black Death in the Middle Ages and claimed an estimated 25 million lives.

Economy and finance

• February 15 : The German stock market and the New York stock exchange operator NYSE Euro Next agree on a merger , whereby the capital with a value of about 26 billion US dollars largest trading center for securities created.
• May 1 : Jens Weidmann succeeds Axel A. Weber as President of the Bundesbank .
• June 14th : The electricity, gas and telecommunications provider Teldafax declares its insolvency and files for bankruptcy .
• June 16 : Eichborn Verlag files for bankruptcy.
• June 16 : The energy company RWE announces that the Biblis B nuclear reactor will not be connected to the grid again after the nuclear moratorium has expired .
• June 17 : The Spanish construction company ACS announces that it now holds over 50 percent of the shares in the German construction company Hochtief .
• July 25 : Deutsche Bank announces that the previous head of investment banking Anshu Jain and the head of Deutsche Bank Germany Jürgen Fitschen will jointly take over the chairmanship of the board as successor to Josef Ackermann from May 2012 .
• August 4 : The European Central Bank resumes buying government bonds due to the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area .
• October 18 : The DAX companies announce that they want to increase the proportion of women in management positions to up to 35 percent.
• December 5 : The OECD publishes a study on income trends, according to which income inequality in Germany has risen considerably more than in most other industrialized nations over the past two decades.
• December 21 : Solar Millennium AG, which specializes in the planning and implementation of solar thermal power plants , files for insolvency at the local court .

Annual dedications and species protection

• The common redstart ( Phoenicurus phoenicurus ) is bird of the year ( Naturschutzbund Deutschland NABU)
• The leg breaker ( Narthecium ossifragum ) is flower of the year ( Foundation Nature and Plants )
• The great schiller butterfly ( Apatura iris ) is butterfly of the year ( Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland BUND)
• The service tree ( Sorbus torminalis ) is tree of the year (Trustees Tree of the Year)
• The red lattice ( Clathrus ruber ) is mushroom of the year ( German Society for Mycology )
• The grayling ( Thymallus thymallus ) is fish of the year (Association of German Sport Fishermen)
• The rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis ) is a medicinal plant of the year (natural health club Theophrastus)
• The Eurasian lynx ( Lynx lynx ) is Wild Animal of the Year ( Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild )
• The great insect ant ( Formica exsecta ) is insect of the year (Kuratorium insect of the year)
• The common labyrinth spider ( Agelena labyrinthica ) is Spider of the Year ( German Arachnological Society )
• The wall lizard ( Podarcis muralis ) is reptile of the year (German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Studies)
• The United Nations Environment Program has declared 2011 and 2012 the “Year of the Bat”
• The United Nations Forest Forum proclaims 2011 the "International Year of Forests"

See also: nature of the year

• 

  Common redstart
  ( Phoenicurus phoenicurus )

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  Leg breaker
  ( Narthecium ossifragum )

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  Greater Schiller Butterfly
  ( Apatura iris )

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  Service tree
  ( Sorbus torminalis )

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  Red lattice
  ( Clathrus ruber )

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  European grayling

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  Rosemary
  ( Rosmarinus officinalis )

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  Eurasian lynx
  ( Lynx lynx )

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  Great notch ant
  ( Formica exsecta )

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  Labyrinth spider on web
  ( Agelena labyrinthica )

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  Wall lizard
  ( Podarcis muralis )

Criminal cases

• Arson attacks on motor vehicles in Berlin
• Assassination attempt at Frankfurt Airport on March 2, 2011
• Police murder in Augsburg 2011
• Explosives attack on the Bremen bridge on September 10, 2011
• Exposure of the right-wing extremist terrorist cell, the National Socialist Underground
• April 15 : Police announce the arrest of an urgent suspect in connection with the school camp killings .
• November 24th : The alleged Nazi underground filmmaker is tracked down and arrested by GSG 9 in Potsdam-Mittelmark . The 32-year-old Saxon is said to have created the videos of the group, in which their deeds are glorified.
• December 7th : Josef Ackermann escapes a letter bomb sent by the Federazione Anarchica Informale .
• December 11th : Another alleged helper of the Zwickau terror cell is arrested in Johanngeorgenstadt .

Disasters

Waldhof accident

• April 8th : Caused by a sandstorm, near Rostock the largest pile-up in Germany for 20 years. 82 vehicles collide and eight people are killed.
• January 29 : Hordorf train accident ( ten people are killed and 23 others are injured in the collision of a HarzElbeExpress passenger train with a freight train)
• January 13 : That with 2,377 tons of sulfuric acid laden motor tanker Waldhof havariert the Rhine near St. Goarshausen near the Loreley .

Weather

Overall, Germany had an average of 548 hours of sunshine, 305 liters of rain per square meter and an average temperature of 16.8 ° C in the summer months from June to August.

Others

• Postage stamps 2011 of the Federal Republic of Germany
• February 19 : After more than four months in prison in Iran , two journalists from Bild return on Sunday .
• December 4 : Because of the demolition or defusing of a 1.8 ton British air mine , a US aircraft bomb and a fog acid barrel device from World War II , around 45,000 residents are temporarily evacuated in Koblenz , which is the largest evacuation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Selection of known deceased

Bernd Eichinger

Otto von Habsburg

Loriot

Rudolf Mössbauer

Christa Wolf

Johannes Heesters

• January 1 : Gerd Michael Henneberg , actor (* 1922 )
• January 3 : Eva Strittmatter , poet and writer (* 1930 )
• January 6th : Gad Granach , German-Jewish emigrant (* 1915 )
• January 13 : Hellmut Lange , actor, voice actor and television presenter (* 1923 )
• January 24th : Bernd Eichinger , film producer, screenwriter and director (* 1949 )
• February 10 : Claus Helmut Drese , opera and theater director, director and author (* 1922)
• February 11 : Josef Pirrung , football player (* 1949)
• February 16 : Hans Joachim Alpers , publisher and writer (* 1943 )
• February 19 : Dietrich Stobbe , SPD politician (* 1938 )
• February 20 : Helmut Ringelmann , film producer (* 1926 )
• February 23 : Gustav Just , journalist and politician (* 1921 )
• March 19 : Knut , polar bear (* 2006 )
• April 3 : Ulli Beier , writer, linguist and editor (* 1922)
• April 4 : Witta Pohl , actress (* 1937 )
• April 6 : Hansjoachim Tiedge , intelligence officer and defector (* 1937)
• April 30 : Egon Drews , canoeist (* 1926)
• May 7th : Gunter Sachs , German-Swiss industrial heir, bobsledder, photographer, documentary filmmaker, art collector and astrology researcher (* 1932 )
• May 8 : Hans-Georg Borck , captain of the Wehrmacht (* 1921)
• May 30th : Tillmann watchmaker , DJ, music producer and radio presenter (* 1967 )
• May 31 : Hans Keilson , German-Dutch doctor, psychoanalyst and German-speaking writer (* 1909 )
• June 4 : Curth Flatow , playwright and screenwriter (* 1920 )
• June 14 : Peter Schamoni , film director and producer (* 1934 )
• June 18 : Ulrich Biesinger , football player (* 1933 )
• June 30th : Georg Sterzinsky , Archbishop of Berlin (* 1936 )
• July 4 : Otto von Habsburg , Austrian-German writer, publicist and politician (* 1912 )
• July 4th : Gerhard Unger , character tenor (* 1916 )
• July 13 : Heinz Reincke , actor and voice actor (* 1925 )
• July 28 : Bernd Clüver , pop singer (* 1948 )
• August 3 : Rudolf Brazda , survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp (* 1913 )
• August 4th : Conrad Schnitzler , artist, musician and composer (* 1937)
• August 14 : Friedrich Schoenfelder , actor and voice actor (* 1916)
• August 22nd : Vicco von Bülow ( Loriot ), caricaturist, director, actor, stage and costume designer (* 1923)
• August 31 : Rosel Zech , theater and film actress (* 1940 )
• September 6 : Hans Apel , SPD politician (* 1932)
• September 7th : Robert Dietrich , ice hockey player of Russian-German descent (* 1986 )
• September 14 : Rudolf Mößbauer , physicist and discoverer of the Mößbauer effect (* 1929 )
• September 17 : Kurt Sanderling , conductor (* 1912)
• September 28 : Heidi (opossum) , opossum female (* 2008 )
• October 2 : Peter Przygodda , filmmaker (* 1941 )
• October 12 : Heinz Bennent , actor (* 1921)
• October 17 : Manfred Gerlach , politician (* 1928 )
• October 18 : Friedrich Kittler , literary scholar and media theorist (* 1943)
• October 28 : Jiří Gruša , Czech writer, poet, dissident and diplomat (* 1938)
• October 29 : Walter Norris , American jazz pianist (* 1931 )
• November 3 : Hans Gerhard Franciskowsky , author of books and radio plays (* 1936)
• November 12 : Eva Monley , Kenyan film producer, location scout and production manager (* 1923)
• November 14th : Franz Josef Degenhardt , songwriter, writer and doctorate in law and attorney (* 1931)
• November 22nd : Kristian Schultze , composer, arranger, keyboardist and music producer (* 1945 )
• November 22nd : Hans Reichel , guitarist, violinist, instrument maker and typeface designer (* 1949)
• December 1 : Christa Wolf , writer (* 1929)
• December 3 : Heinrich Sonne , Hauptsturmführer of the reserve in the Waffen-SS (* 1917 )
• December 11th : Hans Heinz Holz , philosopher (* 1927 )
• December 13 : Klaus-Dieter Sieloff , football player (* 1942 )
• December 15 : Walter Giller , actor (* 1927)
• December 21 : Werner Otto , entrepreneur (* 1909)
• December 24th : Johannes Heesters , actor and singer (* 1903 )
• December 24th : Walter Söhne , agricultural machinery engineer (* 1913)
• December 25th : Hans-Heinrich Isenbart , moderator, journalist and horse specialist (* 1923)

See also

• History of Germany (since 1990)

Web links

Commons : Germany 2011  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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40. ↑ Green membership development 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Steffi Lemke, Federal Political Director of Alliance 90 / The Greens 
41. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Winnenden trial - father guilty of negligent homicide (accessed on February 10, 2011).
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58. ↑ Mahler Festival in Leipzig ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
59. ^ Dresden Music Festival
60. ↑ spd.de: Heinemann Citizens' Prize goes to women's soccer project ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 31, 2011). 
61. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate Day
62. ↑ Handel Festival in Halle ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
63. ↑ Hessentag
64. ↑ Leipzig Bach Festival
65. ↑ zeit.de: Prehistoric pile dwellings become world cultural heritage (accessed on June 28, 2011).
66. ^ Nationalstiftung.de: German National Prize 2011 (accessed on December 31, 2011).
67. ↑ spiegel.de: Telekom boss Obermann is Sprachpanscher of the year (accessed on August 26, 2011).
68. ↑ Mendelssohn Festival ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
69. ↑ Beethovenfest
70. ↑ http://www.tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de/thema/ tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de, viewed December 6, 2010
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72. ↑ Day of German Unity and NRW Day 2011 in Bonn ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
73. ↑ zeit.de: Music: Daniel Barenboim honored with the Willy Brandt Prize ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed October 27, 2011). 
74. ↑ morgenpost.de: Deutschlandhalle collapses after a second (accessed on December 4, 2011).
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77. ↑ spiegel.de: Most important German literary award - FC Delius receives the Büchner Prize (accessed on May 21, 2011).
78. ↑ spiegel.de: President of Hearts - Joachim Gauck receives Börne Prize (accessed on December 31, 2011)
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85. ↑ spiegel.de: ZDF director election : Thomas Bellut comes first in the second (accessed on June 19, 2011).
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87. ↑ handelsblatt.com: Important work of art: Entrepreneur Würth buys Holbein-Madonna (accessed on July 16, 2011).
88. ↑ kicker.de: DEL: Wolfsburg also loses the third play-off final - the polar bears are German champions! (Accessed April 20, 2011).
89. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Nordschleife: In typical Manthey fashion! (Accessed June 26, 2011).
90. ↑ spiegel.de: Mixed Zone: New world record in triathlon, David Haye calls for rematch (accessed on July 13, 2011).
91. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Bradl withstands the pressure: Second at the Sachsenring ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 17, 2011).
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93. ^ Sport.orf.at: Austria missed title defense - final defeat against Germany (accessed on August 13, 2011).
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96. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: After a riot by Dynamo fans - DFB excludes Dresden from the cup (accessed on November 25, 2011).
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102. ↑ freiepresse.de: First Sorbe is beatified - Beatification on Whit Monday with a large service in Dresden ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 12, 2011).
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104. ↑ wording
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106. ↑ hr-online.de: Ceremony - Ehrlich Prize for Cell Researchers ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 28, 2011). 
107. ↑ bundesregierung.de: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2011 awarded ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 28, 2011).
108. ↑ dw-world.de: First German Baltic Sea wind farm in operation ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 2, 2011). 
109. ↑ "ENERTRAG Hybridkraftwerk" , "Functional Principle ENERTRAG Hybridkraftwerk (PDF; 384 kB)
110. ↑ New hybrid power plant goes online in Brandenburg
111. ↑ stern.de: University of Tübingen: genetic material of plague pathogen has been completely deciphered (accessed on October 17, 2011).
112. ↑ spiegel.de: Megahochzeit - German and New York stock exchanges seal merger (accessed on February 15, 2011).
113. ↑ manager-magazin.de: Weber successor - Weidmann becomes the new head of the Bundesbank (accessed on February 17, 2011).
114. ↑ manager-magazin.de: Insolvency: Electricity discounter Teldafax is broke (accessed on June 15, 2011).
115. ↑ tagesschau.de: All Altmeiler remain switched off - "The wishes of the politicians have been taken into account" ( Memento from June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 17, 2011).
116. ↑ reuters.com: Spanish group ACS controls majority of Hochtief (accessed June 17, 2011)
117. ↑ n24.de: Deutsche Bank chooses dual leadership for 2012: Jain and Fitschen  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed July 26, 2011).  
118. ↑ handelsblatt.com: Euro debt crisis: ECB is buying government bonds again (accessed on August 4, 2011).
119. ↑ zeit.de: OECD study: Income inequality is growing in Germany (accessed on December 5, 2011).
120. ↑ taz.de: Executive floor fails, company is broke (accessed on December 22, 2011).
121. ↑ NABU: "Bird of the Year 2011"
122. ↑ Stiftung Naturschutz: “Flower of the Year 2011” ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
123. ↑ BUND NRW Nature Conservation Foundation: "Butterflies of the Year 2011"
124. ↑ Tree of the Year 2011
125. ↑ German Society for Mycology: "Mushroom of the Year 2011"
126. ^ Association of German Sport Fishermen: "Fish of the Year 2011" ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
127. ↑ "Insect of the Year 2011" ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
128. ↑ Arachnological Society: "Spider of the Year 2011"
129. ↑ DHGT: "Reptile of the Year 2011" ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
130. ^ Year of the Bat
131. ↑ The Year of the Forests
132. ↑ spiegel.de: Police arrest suspect in Dennis murder case (accessed April 17, 2011).
133. ^ Abendblatt.de: National Socialist Underground - Brandenburg: Special unit arrested video helpers of the neo-Nazis (accessed on November 24, 2011).
134. ^ Anarchist group also avowed the attack in Rome , Hambuerger Abendblatt, December 9, 2011
135. ↑ ksta.de: Eleventh fatality after train accident (accessed on January 30, 2011).
136. ↑ TMS "Waldhof" of the Lehnkering Reederei capsized with 2,377 tons of sulfuric acid (PDF; 8.9 MB), in Schifffahrt-online, ISSN  1867-8831 / no. 1, Jan 2011, p. 8 ff
137. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
138. ↑ statista.com: Precipitation by federal state (accessed on July 8, 2012)
139. ↑ statista.com: temperature by federal state (accessed on July 8, 2012)
140. ↑ statista.com: Hours of sunshine by federal state (accessed on July 8, 2012)
141. ↑ tagesschau.de: After four months imprisonment in Iran - reporter returned to Germany ( Memento from February 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 20, 2011).
142. ↑ n-tv.de: Countdown to Bomb Sunday - Koblenz will be cleared (accessed on December 4, 2011).