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Events in the year 1903 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 IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
  • Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

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 – 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 (8th term)
  • Kiaochow (Kiautschou) –
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
  • German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
  • Togoland –

Events

  • 13 February – Venezuelan crisis. After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, Britain, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela, resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in December 1902 will be lifted, and Venezuela commit 30% of its customs duties to settling claims.
  • 16 June – German federal election, 1903: The Centre Party remains the largest party in the Reichstag.[1] Shortly after the election, the National-Social Association is dissolved by its leader Friedrich Naumann, and its members join the Free-minded Union.[2]

Undated

Births

  • 7 January – Albrecht Haushofer, German geographer, diplomat and writer (died 1945)
  • 18 January – Werner Hinz, German actor (died 1985)
  • 10 February – Karl Deichgräber, classical philologist (died 1984)
  • 24 February – Franz Burda I, German publisher (died 1986)
  • 6 March – Franz Wessel, German judge (died 1958)
  • 24 March – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (died 1995)
  • 26 April – Alex Möller, German politician (died 1985)
  • 27 April – Karl Maron, German politician (died 1975)
  • 8 June – Eduard Brücklmeier, German diplomat (died 1944)
  • 10 June:
    • Robert A. Stemmle, German film director and screenwriter (died 1974)
    • Theo Lingen, German actor, screenwriter and film director (died )
  • 16 July – Fritz Bauer, German judge (died 1968)
  • 22 July:
    • Willi Dehnkamp, German politician (died 1985)
    • Anton Saefkow, German politician (died 1944)
  • 26 July – Kurt Mahler, German mathematician (died 1988)
  • 31 July – Emil Hirschfeld, German athlete (died 1968)
  • 29 August – Ernst Kreuder, German writer (died 1972)
  • 3 August – Rudolf Wolters, German architect (died 1983)
  • 11 September:
    • Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (died 1969)
    • Carl Joseph Leiprecht, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1981)
  • 11 October – Hans Söhnker, film actor (died 1981)
  • 23 October – Werner Klingler, German film director and actor (died 1972)
  • 5 December – Johannes Heesters, German actor (died 2011)
  • 26 December – Herbert Albert, German conductor (died 1973)
  • Date unknown – Ernst David Bergmann, German-born Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist (died 1975)

Deaths

  • 14 June – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (born 1826)
  • 4 September – Hermann Zumpe, German conductor (born 1850)
  • 1 November – Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist (born 1817)

References

  1. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Kurlander, Eric (2007). The Landscapes of Liberalism: Particularism and Progressive Politics in Two Borderland Regions. Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-speaking Central Europe, 1860–1930. University of Toronto Press. p. 125.
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