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Events in the year 1909 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II
  • Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V
  • Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

Principalities

  • Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (who assumed the title "Prince of Schwarzburg" from 28 March)
  • Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen to 28 March, then Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
  • Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
  • Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
  • Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
  • Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

  • Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of Brunswick – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
  • Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, 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) – Theodor Seitz (3rd term) to 10 February, then (acting governor) to October, the again Theodor Seitz (4th and final term)
  • Kiaochow (Kiautschou) –
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) –
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
  • German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Bruno von Schuckmann
  • Togoland –

Events

  • 19 December: German football club Borussia Dortmund was founded.
  • Summer – German Chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch first demonstrate the Haber process, the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure.

Undated

  • A team under German chemist Fritz Hofmann first synthesizes synthetic rubber (Methylkautschuk).
  • Linde–Frank–Caro process was invented by Adolf Frank and developed with Carl von Linde and Heinrich Caro.

(Methylkautschuk).

Births

  • 4 January – Cilly Aussem, German tennis player (died 1963)
  • 8 January – Willy Millowitsch, German actor (died 1999)
  • 15 January – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer (died 1939)
  • 31 January – Yosef Burg German-born Israeli politician and rabbi (died 1999)
  • 3 February – Kurt Petter, physician, youth leader and educational administrator (died 1969)
  • 20 February – Heinz Erhardt, German comedian (died 1979)
  • 19 March – Otto John, German lawyer (died 1997)
  • 27 March – Golo Mann, German historian, essayist and writer (died 1994)
  • 2 April – Otto Haxel, German nuclear physicist (died 1998)
  • 23 April – Karl Klasen, German banker (died 1991)
  • 24 April: Bernhard Grzimek German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.(died 1987)
  • Konrad Frey, German gymnast (died 1974)
  • Werner Jacobs, German film director (died 1999)
  • 25 April – Ludwig Martin, German lawyer (died 2010)
  • 26 April – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (died 2002)
  • 8 May – Paul May, German film director (died 1976)
  • 11 May – Georg von Holtzbrinck, German publisher (died 1983)
  • 22 May – Willi Geiger, German judge (died 1994)
  • 25 May – Alfred Kubel, German politician (died 1999)
  • 21 June — Helmut Möckel, youth leader and politician (died 1945)
  • 22 June – Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, German officer (died 1944)
  • 4 July – Alex Seidel, German weapons manufacturer (died 1989)
  • 7 July – Gottfried von Cramm, tennis player (died 1976)
  • 22 July – Franz-Josef Röder, politician (died 1979)
  • 9 August – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (died 1944)
  • 13 August – Werner Otto, German businessman (died 2011)
  • 5 September – Hans Carste, German composer and conductor (died 1971)
  • 7 September – Kurt A. Körber, German entrepreneur (died 1992)
  • 14 October – Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (died 1938)
  • 25 October – Dieter Borsche, German actor (died 1982)
  • 30 October – Carl Lange, German actor (died 1999)
  • 7 November – Ezriel Carlebach, German-born Israeli journalist and publicist (died 1956)
  • 2 December – Marion Dönhoff, German journalist (died 2002)
  • 23 December – Joachim Werner, German archaeologist (died 1994)

Deaths

  • 22 January – Emil Erlenmeyer, chemist (born 1825)
  • 2 February – Adolf Stoecker, German pastor and politician (born 1835)
  • 26 February – Hermann Ebbinghaus, psychologist (born 1850)
  • 24 March – Alfred Messel, German architect (born 1853)
  • 28 March – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, nobleman (born 1830)
  • 30 April – Albert Langen, German publisher (born 1869)
  • 9 May – Margarete Steiff, German seamstress and company founder (born 1847)
  • 13 May – Heinrich Limpricht, German chemist (born 1827)
  • 19 May - , German politician (born 1849)
  • 24 May – Georg von Neumayer, German polar explorer (born 1826)[2]
  • 3 June - Theodor Barth, German politician and publicis (born 1849)
  • 8 June – Fritz Overbeck, German painter (born 1869)
  • 3 July – Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel, German gynecologist (born 1862)
  • 13 October – Julius Ruthardt, German violinist and composer (born 1841)
  • 30 October – Leopold Sonnemann, German newspaper publisher (born 1831)
  • 16 December – Ludwig Friedländer, German philologist (born 1824)

References

  1. ^ "Historic Figures: Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941)". BBC - History. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  2. ^ Swan, R. A. "Neumayer, Georg Balthasar von (1826–1909)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 11 June 2018.


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