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Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II^[1]
Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria – Otto to 5 November, then Ludwig III
King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
King of Württemberg – William II

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
Duke of Brunswick – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent) to 1 November, then Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Karl Ebermaier (1st term) to 9 October, then ... Full
Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Erich Schultz-Ewerth
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Seitz
Togoland – Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Events

April 10 – Albrecht Grocery Shop, predecessor of the Aldi discount store chain globally, is founded in Essen.^[2]
May 16 – Eberswalde Hoard discovered
June 20 – Bremen school shooting causes the death of five pupils and the wounding 21 other people.^[3]
September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
October 17 – Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board
Date unknown - Bergius process is invented by German chemist Friedrich Bergius.
Date unknown - Chemical element Protactinium is first identified by Oswald Helmuth Göhring and Kasimir Fajans.
Date unknown - Die Naturwissenschaften first published by Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.

Births

23 January - Herbert Runge, German boxer (died 1986)
29 January - Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer (died 2001)
25 February — Gert Fröbe, German actor (died 1988)
26 February – Hermann Lenz, German poet and author (died 1998)
2 March - Falk Harnack, German director and screenwriter (died 1991)
18 March - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (died 2018)
21 March - Werner Höfer, German journalist (died 1997)
9 April - Heinrich Wöhlk German optometrist. (died 1991)
10 April - Stefan Heym, German writer (died 2001)
19 April - Karl Rawer, German physicist, specialist in radio wave propagation and the ionosphere (died 2018)
21 April - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician (died 1997)
24 April - Paul Esser, German actor (died 1988)
27 April – Luz Long, German long jump athlete (died 1943)
13 May - Lotte Rausch, German actress (died 1995)
26 May - Josef Manger, German heavy weightlifter (died 1991)
31 May – Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian (died 1979)
2 June - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer, song-writer (died 1992)
10 June – Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist (died 1993)
26 June – Rudolf Brazda, German concentration camp prisoner (died 2011)
1 August - Heinz Ellenberg, German biologist (died 1997)
1 August - Hajo Herrmann, German Luftwaffe pilot (died 2010)
4 August – Johann Niemann, SS officer (died 1943)
10 August – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
26 August - Julius Döpfner, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died 1976)
15 September - Johannes Steinhoff, German general (died 1994)
15 September - Hans Filbinger, German politician (died 2007)
26 September - Berthold Beitz, German industrialist (died 2013)
26 September - Ernst Schnabel, German writer (died 1986)
24 October - Jürgen Oesten, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II. (died 2010)
8 November – Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer (died 2003)
13 November - Walter Horten, German aircraft pilot (died 1998)
21 November - Volker von Collande, German actor and film director (died 1990)
24 November - Gisela Mauermayer, German athlete (died 1995)
9 December - Friedrich Dickel, German politician (died 1993)
9 December - Fritz Grasshoff, German writer (died 1997)
18 December – Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1992)
19 December - Ernst Stuhlinger, German rocket scientist (died 2008)
25 December – Henri Nannen, German journalist (died 1996)
28 December - Egbert Hayessen, German mayor (died 1944)
30 December - Tilo von Berlepsch, German actor (died 1991)

Deaths

4 January - Alfred von Schlieffen, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
6 January - Carl Arp, landscape painter (born 1867)
8 January - Friedrich Schrempf, German editor and politician (born 1858)
11 January - Karl Binz, German pharmacologist (born 1832)^[4]
21 January - Friedrich von Hollmann, German admiral (born 1842)
6 March – Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, botanist (born 1834)
29 March – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman (born 1832)
14 April - Carl Hagenbeck, German merchant (born 1844)^[5]
19 April – Hugo Winckler, archaeologist (born 1863)
29 April - Andreas Flocken, German engineer and inventor (born 1845)
29 May – Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector (born 1840)
9 August – Wilhelm Albermann, German sculptor (born 1835)
13 August
- Bernhard Bardenheuer, surgeon (born 1839)
- August Bebel, politician (born 1840)
21 August – Carl Ludwig von Bar, jurist (born 1836)
29 August – Herman Aron, electrical engineer (born 1845)
31 August – Erwin Bälz, physician and anthroplogist (born 1849)
29 September – Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor (born 1858)
5 October - Hans von Bartels, painter (born 1856)
10 October - Adolphus Busch, German businessman (born 1839)
7 December - Heinrich Ernst Göring, German jurist and diplomat (born 1839)
8 December - Johann von Berenberg-Gossler, banker (born 1839)
22 December – Theodor Kaes, neurologist (born 1852)

References

^ "Historic Figures: Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941)". BBC - History. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
^ Weymouth, Lauren. "Secrets of the German supermarkets conquering America (24 slides)". MSN: Money. Archived from the original on 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
^ Schildkraut, Jaclyn; Elsass, H. Jaymi (2016). Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities: Media, Myths, and Realities. ABC-CLIO. p. 103. ISBN 9781440836534.
^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Binz, Karl". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 3. p. 717.
^ "Carl Hagenbeck. Famous Animal Dealer and Exhibitor Dies in Hamburg". The New York Times. April 14, 1913. Retrieved 2008-07-22.

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