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1891 in Germany

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Events in the year 1891 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Kaiser – Wilhelm II
  • Chancellor – 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) – from 7 August Bruno von Schuckmann (acting governor)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term) to 21 February, then Julius Freiherr von Soden (with ... , acting governor)
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – (commissioner)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Louis Nels (acting commissioner) to March, then Curt von François (commissioner)
  • Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner) to 14 April, then vacant

Events

Undated

  • German company Dr. Oetker is founded in Bielefeld.
  • Robert Koch Institute is founded in Berlin.
  • International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main
  • The modern taximeter is invented by German Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn.
  • The Fischer projection is devised by Hermann Emil Fischer.
  • August Thyssen und Joseph Thyssen found German steel company Thyssen.

Births

  • 8 January – Walther Bothe, German physicist (died 1957)
  • 24 January – Walter Model, German field marshal (died 1945)
  • 27 January – Wilhelm Morgner, German painter (died 1917)
  • 31 January – Kurt von Plettenberg, German forester (died 1945)
  • 14 February – Erich Engel, film and theatre director (died 1966)
  • 15 February – Josef Wintrich, German judge (died 1958)
  • 17 February – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and Zionist (died 1965)
  • 11 March – Gertrud Wolle, German film actress (died 1952)
  • 12 March – Hermann Stenner, German painter (died )
  • 28 March – Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (died 1959)
  • 2 April – Max Ernst, German painter (died 1976)
  • 13 May – Fritz Rasp, German actor (died 1976)
  • 13 May – Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1956)
  • 22 May – Johannes R. Becher, German politician, poet and novelist (died 1958)
  • 21 June - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
  • 14 July – Fritz Kampers, German actor (died 1950)
  • 14 July – Werner Rittberger, German figure skater (died 1975)
  • 29 July – Bernhard Zondek, Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (died 1966)
  • 7 August – Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1954)
  • 4 September – Fritz Todt, German engineer (died 1942)
  • 16 September – Karl Dönitz , German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II (died 1980)
  • 22 September – Hans Albers, German actor (died 1960)
  • 9 October – Kurt von Tippelskirch, German general (died 1957)
  • 22 October – Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg, German politician and landowner (died 1958)
  • 25 October – Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (died 1962)
  • 14 November – Josef Magnus Wehner, German poet and playwright (died 1973)
  • 15 November – Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (died 1944)
  • 16 November – Julius Leber, German politician (died 1945)
  • 2 December – Otto Dix, German painter and forced Volkssturm conscript (died 1969)
  • 10 December – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1970)

Deaths

  • 26 January – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer and inventor (born 1832)
  • 27 February – Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral (born 1843)
  • 14 March – Ludwig Windthorst, German politician (born 1812)
  • 24 April – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal, chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years (born 1800)
  • 22 May – Ernst Julius Hähnel, German sculptor (born 1811)
  • 23 June – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, chemist (born 1804)
  • 21 June – Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, general (born 1832)
  • 6 October – Charles I, King of Württemberg (born 1823)
  • 14 December – Ferdinand von Roemer, German geologist (born 1818)
  • 29 December – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (born 1823)

References

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