1895 in Germany
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Events in the year 1895 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II
- 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 to 20 March, then Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe as regent)
- 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 Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term) to 27 March, then ...von Lücke to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (4th term) to 26 October, then from 27 October Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele to 25 April, then Hermann Wissmann
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Gerog Schmiele to 3 March, then Hugo Rüdiger (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
- Togoland â Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term) to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)
Events
- 5 May â German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf is founded.
- 8 November â Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
- 15 December â German football club Eintracht Braunschweig is founded.
Undated
- Hermann Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier first describe FischerâSpeier esterification.
- Wilhelm Emil Fein invents the electrically driven hand drill.
- Carl von Linde files for patent of the Linde cycle.
- Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
- German trade unions have c. 270,000 members.
Births
- 20 January â Walter Bock, German chemist (died 1948)
- 14 February â Max Horkheimer German philosopher and sociologist (died 1973)
- 15 February â Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (died 1945)
- 7 March â Werner Schrader, German officer (died 1944)
- 29 March â Ernst Jünger, German author (died 1998)
- 7 April:
- Margarete Schön, German actress (died 1985)
- Theodor Strünck, German lawyer (died 1945)
- 15 June â Paul Giesler, German politician (died 1945)
- 23 June â Joseph Vogt, German classical historian (died 1986)
- 6 July â Ernst Langlotz, German archaeologist (died 1978)
- 8 July â Heinrich-Hermann von Hülsen, German major general (died 1982)
- 10 July â Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
- 9 August â Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (died 1980)
- 13 August â Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (died 1986)
- 26 August â Harald Paulsen, German actor (died 1954)
- 31 August â Karl Fiehler, German politician (died 1969)
- 4 September â Erich Weise, German historian and archivist (1972)[1]
- 6 September â Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer, leader of the V-2 rocket programme (died 1980)
- 15 September â Hildebrand Gurlitt, German art dealer, art historian and war profiteer (died 1956)
- 25 September â Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (died 1944)
- 5 October â Ludwig Gehre, German officer (died 1945)
- 10 October â Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (died 1945)
- 13 October â Kurt Schumacher, German politician (died 1952)
- 26 October â Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician (died 1981)
- 30 October â Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist (died 1964)
- 10 November â Franz Bachelin, German art director (died 1980)
- 16 November â Paul Hindemith, German composer and conductor (died 1963)
- 23 November â Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge (died 1961)
- 2 December â Erwin Casmir, fencer (died 1982)
- 29 December â Oswald Freisler, lawyer (died 1939)
Deaths
- 13 March â Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (born 1819)
- 20 March â Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, nobleman (born 1824)
- 31 March â Georg von Dollmann, German architect (born 1830)
- 11 April â Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (born 1830)
- 23 April â Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1816)
- 30 April â Gustav Freytag, German playwright (born 1816)
- 23 May â Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (born 1798)
- 2 June â Heinrich von Friedberg, German politician (born 1813)
- 30 June â Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (born 1820)
- 14 July â Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German writer (born 1825)
- 1 August â Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (born 1817)
- 5 August â Friedrich Engels, German philosopher, social scientist and journalist (born 1820)
- 28 August â Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1857)
- 8 September â Adam Opel, German founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (born 1837)
- 24 September â Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon (born 1819)
- 8 November â Johannes Overbeck, German archaeologist (born 1826)
- 11 November â Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher (born 1832)
- 14 December â Paul Melchers, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1813)