1896 in Germany
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Events in the year 1896 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 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 Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Hermann Wissmann to 3 December, then Eduard von Liebert
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Hugo Rüdiger to 17 August, then from 22 September Curt von Hagen (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
- Togoland â August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)
Events
- 12 April â German football club Hannover 96 is founded.
- 1 June â Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung in Berlin is opened.
Undated
- Gottlieb Daimler produces the first gasoline truck.
- Emperor William Monument in Porta Westfalica is completed.
- German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives the Wien approximation.
Births
- 11 January â Heinrich Stuhlfauth, German football player and goalkeeper (died 1966)
- 4 February â Friedrich Hund, German physicist (died 1997)
- 9 February â Erich Vagts, German politician (died 1980)
- 14 February â Werner Richard Heymann, German film composer (died 1961)
- 23 February â Herbert Weichmann, German politician (died 1983)
- 25 February â Ida Noddack, German chemist (died 1978)
- 2 March â Caesar von Hofacker, German colonel (died 1944)
- 22 March â Karl Dannemann, German actor (died 1945)
- 1 April â Wilhelm Sauter, German painter (died 1948)
- 13 May â Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1967)
- 20 May â Paul Kemp, German actor (died 1953)
- 9 June â Karl Sack, German jurist (died 1945)
- 16 July â Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German physician (died 1969)
- 23 July â Reinhold Frank, German lawyer (died 1945)
- 19 August â Josef Kammhuber, German general (died 1986)
- 23 August â Hubert von Meyerinck, German actor (died 1971)
- 15 September â Theodor Haubach, German journalist (died 1945)
- 14 October â Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police officer and politician (died 1944)
- 18 October â Friedrich Hollaender, German film composer and author (died 1976)
- 30 October â Roma Bahn, German actress (died 1975)
- 9 November â Hellmut von der Chevallerie, German general (died 1965)
- 28 November â Otto Graf, German actor (died 1977)
- 3 December â Carlo Schmid, German politician (died 1979)
- 18 December â Hans Otto Erdmann, German officer (died 1944)
- 27 December â Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1977)
- 31 December â Carl Ludwig Siegel, German mathematician (died 1981)
Deaths
- 29 February â Albrecht von Stosch, German admiral (born 1818)
- 28 April â Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (born 1834)
- 18 May â Otto von Camphausen, German politician (born 1812)
- 20 May â Clara Schumann, German musician and composer (born 1819)
- 2 June â Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, German geographer, explorer and author (born 1831)
- 11 July â Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (born 1814)
- 13 July â August Kekulé, German chemist (born 1829)
- 10 August â Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of aviation (born 1848)
- 13 August â Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, German mathematician (born 1821)
- 22 October â Christian Roos, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1826)
- 3 November â Eugen Baumann, German chemist (born 1846)
- 19 November â Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician (born 1837)
- December â Bianka Blume, German opera singer (born 1843).[1]
- 17 December â Paul Beiersdorf, German pharmacist (born 1836)
- 26 December â Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist (born 1818)
