1910 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1910 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1910 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg

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
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – 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 (4th and final term) to 27 August, then (acting governor) to September, then (acting governor) to 25 October, then (3rd 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 to 20 June, then Theodor Seitz from 28 August
• Togoland – to 7 November, then vacant

Events[]

• 22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.
• 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded.

Births[]

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• 20 February – Rudolf Beckmann, SS officer (died )
• 22 June – Herbert Quandt, German industrialist (died 1982)
• 1 August – Gerda Taro, Polish-German war photographer (died 1937)
• 11 September – Gerhard Schröder, politician (died 1989)
• 18 September – Josef Tal, German-born Israeli composer (died 2008)
• 8 October – Helmut Kallmeyer, chemist and Action T4 perpetrator (died 2006)
• 6 November – Erik Ode, German actor (died 1983)
• Date unknown – Yaakov Ben-Tor, German-born Israeli geologist (died 2002)

Deaths[]

• 27 May – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
• 10 July – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (born 1812)
• 26 August – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, pathologist (born 1833)
• 15 November – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (born 1831)
• 19 November – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (born 1835)

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