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Events in the year 1886 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Kaiser – William I
  • Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
  • Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
  • Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

Principalities

  • Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
  • Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
  • Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
  • Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

  • Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
  • 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) – Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Karl Peters (administrator)
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – (commissioner); also from 10 June (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
  • Togoland – (commissioner)
  • Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Events

  • 6 February – German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers chemical element Germanium.
  • 14 November – Friedrich Soennecken files his patent for his holepunch Papierlocher für Sammelmappen.
  • 15 November – Robert Bosch GmbH is founded.

Undated

  • German Friedrich Soennecken invents the ring binder in Bonn.
  • Neuschwanstein Castle is completed.

Births

  • Undated – Otto Wunderlich, German landscape photographer (died in )
  • 2 January – Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel German general (died 1944)
  • 25 January – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (died 1954)
  • 14 February – Karl Reinhardt, German philologist (died 1958)
  • 6 March – Fritz Goerdeler, German jurist (died 1945)
  • 10 March – Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (died 1950)
  • 18 March – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German Imperial Naval submarine captain in World War I and Kriegsmarine Rear admiral (died 1941)
  • 27 March – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (died 1969)
  • 16 April – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (died 1944)
  • 1 May – Walter Cramer, German businessman (died 1944)
  • 2 May – Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (died 1956)
  • 3 May – Kurt von Briesen, German general (died 1941)
  • 5 June – Kurt Hahn, German educator (died 1974)
  • 7 August – Paul Westheim, German art historian and publisher (died 1963)
  • 15 August – Karl Korsch, German politician (died 1961)
  • 19 August – Robert Heger, German conductor (died 1878)
  • 20 August – Paul Tillich, Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian (died 1965)
  • 25 August – Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (died 1954)
  • 14 September – Erich Hoepner, German general (died 1944)
  • 20 September – Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (died 1954)
  • 4 October – Erich Fellgiebel, German general (died 1944)
  • 7 October – Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (died 1950)
  • 15 October – Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German colonel (died 1944)
  • 26 October – Hanns Braun, German athlete (died 2018)
  • 6 November – Gus Kahn, German-American songwriter (died 1941)
  • 7 November – Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (died 1954)
  • 28 November – Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (died 1954)
  • 25 December:
    • Gotthard Heinrici, German general (died 1971)
    • Franz Rosenzweig, German theologian and philosopher (died 1929)

Deaths

  • 9 April – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (born 1826)
  • 23 May – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (born )
  • 13 June – Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (born 1845)
  • 31 July – )

References


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