1883 in Germany
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Events in the year 1883 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig II[4]
- King of Prussia â William I
- King of Saxony â Albert
- King of Württemberg â Charles
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe â Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line â Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line â Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont â George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Events
- 12 May â A German merchant Adolf Lüderitz purchases and takes possession of land in South-West Africa, which subsequently forms the basis of the first German colony of German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika).
Undated
- German company AEG is founded in Berlin.
- Germany gets the world's first national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883.
- The Schotten-Baumann reaction is first described in 1883 by German chemists Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann.
- The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen is opened.
Births
- 12 January â Gustav Otto, aircraft engineer (died 1926)
- 19 January â Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)
- 31 January â Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician (died 1954)
- 16 February â Conrad Hommel, German painter (died 1971)
- 9 February â Fritz August Breuhaus, German architect, interior designer and designer (died 1960)
- 17 February â Selma Lohse, German politician (died 1937)
- 23 February â Otto Nuschke, German politician (died 1957)
- 23 February â Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
- 8 March â Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician (died 1930)
- 13 March â Eugen Ritter von Schobert, German general (died 1941)
- 18 May â Walter Gropius, German architect (died 1969)
- 18 May â Theodor Loos, German actor (died 1954)
- 7 July â Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1942)
- 10 July â Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (died 1948)
- 10 July â Friedrich Flick, German entrepreneur and industrialist (died 1972)
- 7 August â Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (died 1934)
- 20 August â Robert Lehr, German politician (died 1956)
- 11 September â Emil Rausch, German swimmer (died 1954)
- 17 September â Käthe Kruse, notable pioneer of German doll-making (died 1968)
- 14 September â Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (died 1947)
- 24 September â Wilhelm Stählin, German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher (died 1975)
- 30 September â Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
- 8 October â Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (died 1970)
- 25 October â Walter Alfred Rosam, German painter (died 1916)
- 15 November â Günther Rüdel, German general (died 1950)
Deaths
- 19 January â Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, German sculptor (born 1802)
- 21 January â Prince Charles of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1801)
- 24 January â Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (born 1812)
- 13 February â Richard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)
- 27 February â Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (born 1820)
- 14 March â Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist (born 1818)
- 15 April â Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1823)
- 29 April â Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German economist and politician (born 1808)
- 4 August â August Howaldt, German engineer and ship builder (born 1809)
- 19 November â Arnold Schaefer, German historian (born 1819)
