1884 in Germany

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Events in the year 1884 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

Grand Duchies[]

Principalities[]

Duchies[]

  • Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick to 18 October, then Duchy claimed by Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who was excluded and a temporary council of regency was established.
  • Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors[]

  • Cameroon (Kamerun) from 14 July – Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 19 July, then (acting commissioner)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) from 24 April – Adolf Lüderitz (magistrate) to 7 October, then Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner)
  • Togoland from 5 July – Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 6 July October, then (provisional consul)

Events[]

  • 24 April – Territory in South West Africa is placed under German protection, becoming the first German colonial possession.
  • 9 June – The construction of the Reichstag building in Berlin started.
  • 5 July – German protectorate is first declared over part of Togoland.
  • 14 July – Commencement of German administration in Cameroon (Kamerun).
  • 28 October – German federal election, 1884
  • 15 November – The Berlin Conference which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends 26 February 1885).

Date unknown[]

  • German company Glastechnisches Laboratorium Schott & Genossen was founded, later becoming Schott AG

Science[]

  • Germany got the second part of world's oldest national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Accicential Insurance Bill of 1884.
  • Koch's postulates are four criteria designed to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease. The postulates were formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884.
  • Paal-Knorr Synthesis was initially reported independently by German chemists and Ludwig Knorr as a method for the preparation of furans
  • Robert Koch resided and researched at Grant Medical College in Bombay, India, where he was able to determine the causative agent of cholera, isolating Vibrio cholerae.

Births[]

  • 31 January – Theodor Heuss, German politician, publicist and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1963)[1]
  • 12 February – Max Beckmann, German painter and graphic artist (died 1950)
  • 26 March – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died )
  • 12 April – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (died 1951)
  • 14 May – Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (died )
  • 10 June – Walther Schreiber, German politician (died 1958)
  • 14 June – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (died 1953)
  • 14 June – Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (died 1956)
  • 23 June – Werner Krauss, German actor (died 1959
  • 24 June – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria, member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a highly decorated Army officer in the First World War (died 1916)
  • 2 July – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neuropathologist (died 1931)
  • 7 July – Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist and playwright (died 1958)
  • 14 July – Prince Adalbert of Prussia, German nobleman (died )
  • 17 July – Walter von Keudell, German politician (died 1973)
  • 23 July – Emil Jannings, German actor (died 1950)
  • 31 July – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (died 1944)
  • 20 August – Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
  • 28 August – Christian Stock, German politician (died 1967)
  • 24 September – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (died 1953)
  • 29 September – Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (died 1950)
  • 8 October – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (died 1942)
  • 10 October – Friedrich von Rabenau, German general and theologian (died 1945)
  • 11 October – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died )
  • 21 October – Claire Waldoff, German singer (died 1957)
  • 24 October – Arno Bieberstein , German swimmer (died 1918)
  • 1 December – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (died 1976)
  • 2 December – Johannes Popitz, German politician (died 1945)
  • 14 December – Erich Ponto, German actor (died 1957)

Deaths[]

  • 17 January – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (born 1804)
  • 20 January - Julius Pintsch, German tinsmith, inventor and entrepreneur (born 1815
  • 25 January – Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor and composer (born 1815)
  • 28 January – Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, German astronomer (born 1827)
  • 13 March - Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician (born 1819)
  • 6 April – Emanuel Geibel, German poet and playwright (born 1815)
  • 19 June – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (born 1803)
  • 10 July – Karl Richard Lepsius, German archaeologist and linguist (born 1810)
  • 1 August – Heinrich Laube, German poet (born 1806)
  • 21 August - Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist (born 1819)
  • 2 September – Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld, German field marshal (born )
  • 18 October – William, Duke of Brunswick, German nobleman (born 1806)
  • 29 October - Albert Dulk, German writer (born 1819)
  • 25 November – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (born 1818)
  • 10 December – Eduard Rüppell, German explorer (born )

References[]

  1. ^ "Theodor Heuss | German statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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