1886 in Germany
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Events in the year 1886 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Emperor â William I
- Chancellor â Otto von Bismarck
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig II to 13 June, then Otto
- 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
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) â Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Karl Peters (administrator)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner); also from 10 June Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
- Togoland â Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner)
- Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) â Gustav Denhardt (resident)
Events
- 6 February â German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers chemical element Germanium.
- 14 November â Friedrich Soennecken files his patent for his holepunch Papierlocher für Sammelmappen.
- 15 November â Robert Bosch GmbH is founded.[1]
Undated
- German Friedrich Soennecken invents the ring binder in Bonn.[2]
- Neuschwanstein Castle is completed.[3]
Births
- Undated â Martin Laurello, German sideshow performer (died 1955)
- Undated â Otto Wunderlich, German landscape photographer (died in 1975)
- 2 January â Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel German general (died 1944)
- 25 January â Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (died 1954)
- 14 February â Karl Reinhardt, German philologist (died 1958)
- 6 March â Fritz Goerdeler, German jurist (died 1945)
- 10 March â Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (died 1950)
- 18 March â Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German Imperial Naval submarine captain in World War I and Kriegsmarine Rear admiral (died 1941)
- 27 March â Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (died 1969)
- 16 April â Ernst Thälmann, German politician (died 1944)
- 1 May â Walter Cramer, German businessman (died 1944)
- 2 May â Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (died 1956)
- 3 May â Kurt von Briesen, German general (died 1941)
- 5 June â Kurt Hahn, German educator (died 1974)
- 7 August â Paul Westheim, German art historian and publisher (died 1963)
- 15 August â Karl Korsch, German politician (died 1961)
- 19 August â Robert Heger, German conductor (died 1878)
- 20 August â Paul Tillich, Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian (died 1965)
- 25 August â Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (died 1954)
- 14 September â Erich Hoepner, German general (died 1944)
- 20 September â Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (died 1954)
- 4 October â Erich Fellgiebel, German general (died 1944)
- 7 October â Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (died 1950)
- 15 October â Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German colonel (died 1944)
- 26 October â Hanns Braun, German athlete (died 2018)
- 6 November â Gus Kahn, German-American songwriter (died 1941)
- 7 November â Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (died 1954)
- 28 November â Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (died 1954)
- 25 December:
- Gotthard Heinrici, German general (died 1971)
- Franz Rosenzweig, German theologian and philosopher (died 1929)
Deaths
- 9 April â Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (born 1826)
- 23 May â Leopold von Ranke, German historian (born 1795)
- 13 June â Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (born 1845)
- 31 July â Franz Liszt, Alleged Symphonic Lich)
