1890 in Germany

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Events in the year 1890 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

  • Kaiser – Wilhelm II
  • Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck to March 20, then Leo von Caprivi

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

Grand Duchies[]

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

Principalities[]

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) – Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term) to (17 April), then , to 3 August, then ... (acting governor) to December 2, then Jesko von Puttkamer (acting governor) (2nd term)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – (acting commissioner to 30 September, then commissioner)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner) to August, then Louis Nels (acting commissioner)
  • Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
  • Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident) to 1 July

Events[]

  • 5 February – German company Allianz is founded in Berlin.
  • 20 February – German federal election, 1890
  • 20 March – Bismarck cabinet ends.
  • 1 July — Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland (part of modern-day Kenya) and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the UK vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.
  • 16 July - German company Mannesmann is founded in Düsseldorf.
  • August — Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Alexander III of Russia meet at Narva.

Date unknown[]

  • German physician and physiologist Emil von Behring publishes an article with Kitasato Shibasaburo reporting that they have developed "antitoxins" against both diphtheria and tetanus in Berlin.

Births[]

  • 9 January – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer (died 1935)
  • 30 January – Albert Zürner, German diver (died 1920)
  • 6 February – Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (died 1956)
  • 20 February – Georg Thomas, German general (died 1946)
  • 5 March – Wilhelm Boden, German politician (died 1961)
  • 22 March – Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician (died 1945)
  • 22 April – Erwin Jaenecke, German general (died 1960)
  • 10 May – Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946)
  • 15 June – Wilhelm Leuschner, German politician (died 1944)
  • 25 June – Hans Marchwitza, German writer and poet (died 1965)
  • 4 July – Otto Feick, German gymnast (died 1959)
  • 8 July – Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright (died 1940)
  • 29 July – Elisabeth von Thadden, German educator and resistance fighter (died 1944)
  • 30 July – Ludwig Schwamb, German politician (died 1945)
  • 3 August – Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1972)
  • 4 August – Erich Weinert, German author (died 1953)
  • 14 August – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war criminal (died 1946)
  • 18 August – Walther Funk, German banker and economist (died 1960)
  • 16 September – Traugott Herr, German general (died 1976)
  • 23 September – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshall (died 1957)
  • 10 October – Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot (died 1925)
  • 2 December – C. Paul Jennewein, German-American sculptor (died 1978)
  • 6 December:
    • Hans Bethge, German pilot (died 1918)
    • Carl Jules Weyl, German-American art director and Reichswehr soldier (died 1948)
  • 17 December – Prince Joachim of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1920)

Deaths[]

  • 7 January - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German queen (born 1811)
  • 20 January – Franz Lachner, German composer and conductor (born 1803)
  • 27 January – Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, German psychiatrist (born 1833)
  • 18 March – Johann Georg Halske, German businessman (born 1814)
  • 19 March – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman (born 1838)
  • 27 March – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist (born 1803)
  • 30 April – Hermann von Dechend, German politician who served as the first President of the Reichsbank (born 1814)
  • 26 May – Adelbert Delbrück, German banker and businessman (born 1822)
  • 27 August - Emil Otto Grundmann, German painter (born 1844)
  • 3 September - Johann von Lutz, German politician (born 1826)
  • 15 September – Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss, German scientist (born 1812)
  • 19 September – Friedrich Gaedcke, German chemist (born 1828)
  • 23 September - Lorenz von Stein, German economist and sociologist (born 1815)
  • 4 November - Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (born 1820)
  • 3 December – Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, German politician (born 1803)
  • 26 December - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology (born 1822)

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