1883 in Germany

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1883
in
Germany

Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also:Other events of 1883
History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1883 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

  • KaiserWilliam I
  • ChancellorOtto von Bismarck

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

Grand Duchies[]

  • Grand Duke of BadenFrederick I
  • Grand Duke of HesseLouis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFrederick Francis II
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFrederick William
  • Grand Duke of OldenburgPeter II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachCharles Alexander

Principalities[]

Duchies[]

  • Duke of AnhaltFrederick I, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of BrunswickWilliam, Duke of Brunswick
  • Duke of Saxe-AltenburgErnst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaErnst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-MeiningenGeorg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Events[]

  • 12 May – A German merchant Adolf Lüderitz purchases and takes possession of land in South-West Africa, which subsequently forms the basis of the first German colony of German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika).

Undated[]

  • German company AEG is founded in Berlin.
  • Germany gets the world's first national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883.
  • The Schotten-Baumann reaction is first described in 1883 by German chemists Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann.
  • The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen is opened.

Births[]

  • 12 JanuaryGustav Otto, aircraft engineer (died 1926)
  • 19 JanuaryHermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)
  • 31 JanuaryHermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician (died 1954)
  • 16 FebruaryConrad Hommel, German painter (died 1971)
  • 23 FebruaryOtto Nuschke, German politician (died 1957)
  • 23 FebruaryKarl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
  • 8 MarchAdolf Köster, German diplomat and politician (died )
  • 13 MarchEugen Ritter von Schobert, German general (died 1941)
  • 18 MayWalter Gropius, German architect (died 1969)
  • 18 MayTheodor Loos, German actor (died 1954)
  • 7 JulyPrince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1942)
  • 10 JulyJohannes Blaskowitz, German general (died 1948)
  • 10 JulyFriedrich Flick, German entrepreneur and industrialist (died 1972)
  • 7 AugustJoachim Ringelnatz, German writer (died 1934)
  • 20 AugustRobert Lehr, German politician (died 1956)
  • 11 SeptemberEmil Rausch, German swimmer (died 1954)
  • 17 SeptemberKäthe Kruse, notable pioneer of German doll-making (died 1968)
  • 14 SeptemberMartin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (died 1947)
  • 24 SeptemberWilhelm Stählin, German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher (died 1975)
  • 30 SeptemberBernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
  • 8 OctoberOtto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (died 1970)
  • 25 OctoberWalter Alfred Rosam, German painter (died 1916)
  • 15 NovemberGünther Rüdel, German general (died 1950)

Deaths[]

  • 19 JanuaryGeorg Ferdinand Howaldt, German sculptor (born 1802)
  • 21 JanuaryPrince Charles of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1801)
  • 24 JanuaryFriedrich von Flotow, German composer (born 1812)
  • 13 FebruaryRichard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)
  • 27 FebruaryJulius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (born 1820)
  • 14 MarchKarl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist (born 1818)
  • 15 AprilFrederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1823)
  • 29 AprilFranz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German economist and politician (born 1808)
  • 4 AugustAugust Howaldt, German engineer and ship builder (born 1809)
  • 19 NovemberArnold Schaefer, German historian (born 1819)

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