# 1901 in Germany

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Events in the year 1901 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### National level

* Kaiser – Wilhelm II
* Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

### State level
#### Kingdoms

* King of Bavaria – Otto
* King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
* King of Saxony – Albert
* King of Württemberg – William II

#### Grand duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
* Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest

#### Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
* Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
* Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
* Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#### Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
* Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, 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) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
* Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann (acting) to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
* German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
* German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor) (2nd term)
* German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
* German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
* Togoland - August Köhler

## Events

* 23 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom.
* 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen.
* 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.
* 25 November – Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.

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* Oscar Troplowitz invents the medical plaster patch called "Leukoplast" for Beiersdorf.

## Births

* 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
* 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
* 19 January – Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
* 21 March – Karl Arnold, German politician (died 1958)
* 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
* 27 March – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (died 1963)
* 17 May – Max Lorenz, German tenor (died 1975)
* 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German—Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
* 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
* 7 July – Gustav Knuth, German film actor (died 1987)
* 24 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (died 1987)
* 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
* 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994)
* 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
* 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
* Undated — Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)

## Deaths

* 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818).
* 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
* 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (born 1818)
* 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819)
* 5 August - Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II (born 1840 in the United Kingdom)
* 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (born 1829)
* 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker (born 1839)
* 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (born 1849)
* 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (born 1839)
* 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (born 1815)