1901 in Germany
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Events in the year 1901 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Kaiser – Wilhelm II
- Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony
- King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, 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 – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – to 27 January, then (acting) to 8 June, then
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland - August Köhler
Events
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Births
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- 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
- 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
- 19 January – Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
- 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German-Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
- 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
- 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
- 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
- 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (died 1994)
- 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
- 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
- Undated – Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)
Deaths
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- 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818)
- 27 January – , Governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
- 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819)
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