1894 in Germany
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Events in the year 1894 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Emperor â Wilhelm II[1]
- Chancellor â Leo von Caprivi to 26 October, then from 29 October Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II[1]
- King of Saxony â Albert
- King of Württemberg â William II
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Karl Günther, 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 Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) â Leist to 24 February, then Eugen von Zimmerer (4th and final term) to 31 December, then Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Gerog Schmiele (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Curt von François (Landeshauptleute) to 15 March, then Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
- Togoland â Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term)
Events
- 1 October â Leipziger Volkszeitung is first published.
Undated
- The Reichstag building in Berlin is completed and opened.[2]
- The German company Wintershall is founded.
Births
- 8 February â Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (died 1971)
- 26 February â Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (died 1979)
- 11 March â Otto Grotewohl, German politician (died 1964)
- 1 April â Eduard Wagner, German general (died 1944)
- 11 April â Fritz Lindemann, German officer (died 1944)
- 14 April â Fritz Thiele, German member of the German resistance who served as the communications chief of the German Army (died 1944)
- 19 April â Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
- 19 May â Heinz Ziegler, German general (died 1972)
- 30 July â Gerda Müller, German actress (died 1951)
- 17 August â Otto Suhr, German politician (died 1957)
- 19 August â Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest (died 1944)
- 20 August â Josef StraÃberger, German weightlifter (died 1950)
- 6 September â Carl Grossberg, German painter (died 1940)
- 12 September â Friedrich Ebert Jr., German politician (died 1979)
- 15 September â Herbert Windt, German composer (died 1965)
- 14 October â Heinrich Lübke, German politician (died 1972)
- 2 November â Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer, pioneer of aerodynamics (died 1976)
- 19 November â Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (died 1971)
- 17 December â Hans Henny Jahnn, German playwright and novelist (died 1959)
- 19 December â Paul Dessau, German conductor and composer (died 1979)
- 21 December â Gustav Ehrhart, German chemist (died 1971)
Deaths
- 1 January â Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (born 1857)
- 11 January:
- Wilhelm von Freeden, German mathematician (born 1822)
- Joseph Weyland, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1826)
- 12 February â Hans von Bülow, German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer (born 1830)
- 20 February â Georg Albert Lücke, German surgeon (born 1829)
- 11 April â Constantin Lipsius, German architect (born 1832)
- 21 May â August Kundt, German physicist (born 1839)
- 8 September â Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (born 1821)
- 17 October â Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (born 1820)