1895 in Germany

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Events in the year 1895 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

Grand Duchies[]

  • Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
  • Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
  • 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 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors[]

  • Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term) to 27 March, then ... to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (4th term) to 26 October, then from 27 October Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – to 25 April, then Hermann Wissmann
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – to 3 March, then (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
  • Togoland – Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term) to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)

Events[]

First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand
  • 5 May – German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf is founded.
  • 8 November – Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
  • 15 December – German football club Eintracht Braunschweig is founded.

Undated[]

  • Hermann Emil Fischer and first describe Fischer–Speier esterification.
  • Wilhelm Emil Fein invents the electrically-driven hand drill.
  • Carl von Linde files for patent of the Linde cycle.

Births[]

  • 20 January – Walter Bock, German chemist (died 1948)
  • 14 February – Max Horkheimer German philosopher and sociologist (died 1973)
  • 15 February – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (died 1945)
  • 7 March – Werner Schrader, German officer (died 1944)
  • 29 March – Ernst Jünger, German author (died 1998)
  • 7 April:
  • 15 June – Paul Giesler, German politician (died 1945)
  • 6 July – Ernst Langlotz, German archaeologist (died 1978)
  • 10 July – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
  • 9 August – Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (died 1980)
  • 13 August – Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (died 1986)
  • 26 August – Harald Paulsen, German actor (died 1954)
  • 31 August – Karl Fiehler, German politician (died 1969)
  • 6 September – Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer, leader of the V-2 rocket programme (died 1980)
  • 15 September – Hildebrand Gurlitt, German art dealer, art historian and war profiteer (died 1956)
  • 25 September – Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (died 1944)
  • 5 October – Ludwig Gehre, German officer (died 1945)
  • 10 October – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (died 1945)
  • 13 October – Kurt Schumacher, German politician (died 1952)
  • 26 October – Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician (died 1981)
  • 30 October – Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist (died 1964)
  • 16 November – Paul Hindemith, German composer and conductor (died 1963)
  • 23 November – Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge (died 1961)
  • 2 December – Erwin Casmir, fencer (died 1982)
  • 29 December – Oswald Freisler, lawyer (died 1939)


Deaths[]

  • 13 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (born 1819)
  • 20 March – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, nobleman (born 1824)
  • 31 March – Georg von Dollmann, German architect (born 1830)
  • 11 April – Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (born 1830)
  • 23 April – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1816)
  • 30 April – Gustav Freytag, German playwright (born 1816)
  • 23 May – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (born )
  • 2 June – Heinrich von Friedberg, German politician (born 1813)
  • 30 June – Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (born 1820)
  • 14 July – Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German writer (born 1825)
  • 1 August – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (born 1817)
  • 5 August – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher, social scientist and journalist (born 1820)
  • 28 August – Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1857)
  • 8 September – Adam Opel, German founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (born 1837)
  • 24 September – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (born 1819)
  • 8 November – Johannes Overbeck, German archaeologist (born )
  • 11 November – Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher (born 1832)
  • 14 December – Paul Melchers, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1813)

References[]


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