1912 in Germany

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Events in the year 1912 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 – Adolf II, 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) – .... Hansen (acting governor) to 29 March, then Karl Ebermaier (1st term)
Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – to 22 April, then Albert Heinrich Schnee
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Erich Schultz-Ewerth
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Seitz
Togoland – to 19 June, then Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Events[]

January 12 – German federal election, 1912
October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel
December 6 – The Nefertiti bust was found at Amarna by the German Oriental Company (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft – DOG), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.
December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.^[1]

Undated[]

German company Fresenius is founded by Eduard Fresenius.
Alfred Wegener proposes a fully formulated theory of continental drift and gave the supercontinent Pangaea its name.
Max von Laue suggests using crystal lattices to diffract X-rays.
Neosalvarsan becomes available and supersedes the more toxic and less water-soluble salvarsan as an effective treatment for syphilis.

Births[]

16 January – Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986)
21 January – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000)
1 February – Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977)
5 February – Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
18 February – Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992)
24 February – Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006)
3 March – Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999)
4 March – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died )
6 March – Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997)
13 March – Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004)
22 March – Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000)
23 March – Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
29 March – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)^[2]
31 March – Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989)
29 April – Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
2 May:
- Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985)
- Karl Adam, German rowing coach (died 1976)
9 May – Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010)
1 June – Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012)
5 June – Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
11 June - Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist (died 1996)
21 June – Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944)
28 June – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007)
30 June – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003)
28 July – Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988)
3 August:
- Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
- Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (died 1988)
14 August – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
31 August – Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941)
2 September – Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017)
19 September – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011)
14 October – Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940)
28 November – Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992)
29 November – Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944)
Date unknown – Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (died 1994)^[3]

Deaths[]

8 January – Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
5 February – Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831)
8 February – Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
5 March – Rochus von Liliencron, German germanist and historian (born 1820)
12 March – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Dönitz, German physician, anatomist, zoologist and entomologist (born 1838)
30 March – Karl May, German writer (born 1842)
30 July – Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843)
10 August – Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841)
24 September – Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842)
10 October – Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888)
27 October – Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)
22 November – Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846)
28 November – Otto Brahm, German drama and literary critic (born 1856)
23 December – Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
30 December – Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)

References[]

^ Freudenmann, R. W.; Oxler, F.; Bernschneider-Reif, S. (2006). "The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents" (PDF). Addiction. 101 (9): 1241–1245. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722.
^ Piszkiewicz, Dennis (1997). From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch. Westport: Praeger. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-27595-456-7.
^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 1716. ISBN 9781135963422.

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[1] Freudenmann, R. W.; Oxler, F.; Bernschneider-Reif, S. (2006). "The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents" (PDF). Addiction. 101 (9): 1241–1245. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722.

[2] Piszkiewicz, Dennis (1997). From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch. Westport: Praeger. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-27595-456-7.

[3] Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 1716. ISBN 9781135963422.

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