1901 in Germany

1901 in Germany
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.
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)
25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
21 May – Manfred Aschner, German—Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
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)
References
Years of the 20th century in Germany
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