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1916 in Germany

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1916
in
Germany

Decades:
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  • 1900s
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  • 1920s
  • 1930s
See also:Other events of 1916
History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1916 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • KaiserWilhelm II
  • ChancellorTheobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of BadenFrederick II
  • Grand Duke of HesseErnest Louis
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFrederick Francis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzAdolphus Frederick VI
  • Grand Duke of OldenburgFrederick Augustus II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachWilliam Ernest

Principalities

Duchies

  • Duke of AnhaltFrederick II, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of BrunswickErnest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
  • Duke of Saxe-AltenburgErnst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaCharles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-MeiningenBernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

  • Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee

Events

  • 4 March – Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces.
  • 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.

Births

  • 12 FebruaryHelmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer (died 1981)
  • 10 MayAlfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died )
  • 9 JuneSiegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died (died 1943)
  • 26 JuneYitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
  • 20 SeptemberRudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)

Deaths

  • 12 FebruaryRichard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
  • 4 MarchFranz Marc, painter (born 1880)
  • 11 May:
    • Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
    • Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
  • 13 JulyJosef Rieder (cyclist)
  • 11 OctoberOtto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848).
  • 8 NovemberPrince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884
  • 4 DecemberHans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892
  • 19 DecemberGuido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)

References


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