# 1915 in Germany

Events in the year 1915 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### National level

* Kaiser – Wilhelm II
* Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

### State level
#### Kingdoms

* King of Bavaria – Ludwig III
* King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
* King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
* King of Württemberg – William II

#### 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 VI
* 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 XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
* Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, 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 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
* 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 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

#### Colonial Governors

* Cameroon (Kamerun) – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term)
* German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee
* German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Seitz to 15 July

## Events

* 9 July – German forces in German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) capitulate and the territory is occupied by South Africa.
* 20 August – An auto parts, electronics and other manufacturing brand, ZF Friedrichshafen was founded, as predecessor name was Zepernicker Zahnradfabrik.

### Undated

* German geophysicist Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent.
* German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer publishes an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

## Births

* 22 January – Heinrich Albertz, German politician (died 1993)
* 27 January – Ernst Schröder, German actor (died 1994)
* 14 February – Georg Thomalla, German actor (died 1999)
* 21 February – Roland von Hößlin, German officer (died 1944)
* 6 March – Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German officer (died 1944)
* 7 March – Johannes Wiese, German pilot during World War II, a fighter ace (died 1991)
* 11 March – Karl Krolow, German poet (died 1991)
* 12 March – Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots (died 1994)
* 13 April:
** Max Jammer, German-born Israeli physicist (died 2010)
** Stephan Hermlin, German poet (died 1997)
* 16 June – Marga Faulstich, German chemist (died 1998)
* 25 August – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht (died 1944)
* 26 August – Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat (died 2002)
* 28 August – Paul Schneider-Esleben, German architect (died 2005)
* 5 September – Horst Sindermann, German politician (died 1990)
* 6 September – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (died 1988)
* 15 September – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (died 1996)
* 9 October – Henner Henkel, German tennis champion (died 1942)
* 9 December - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-British operatic soprano (died 2006)
* 13 December – Curd Jürgens, German actor (died 1982)

## Deaths

* 4 January – Anton von Werner, German painter (born 1843)
* 9 April – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (born 1852)
* 2 May – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870)
* 10 May – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (born 1856)
* 15 May – Oskar Frenzel, German painter (born 1855)
* 20 June – Emil Rathenau, German entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1838)
* 9 July – Carl Walther, German gunsmith (born 1858)
* 15 July – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (born 1844)
* 4 August – Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (born 1846)
* 20 August – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and scientist (born 1854)
* 19 September – David Friedrich Weinland, German zoologist and novelist (born 1829)
* 27 September – Kaspar von Zumbusch, German sculptor (born 1830)
* 15 October – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (born 1862)
* 4 December – Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, composer and conductor (born 1855)
* 19 December – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)