1901 in Germany
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The following is a list of events from the year 1901 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
- Grand Duke of Baden â Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse â Ernest Louis
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin â Frederick Francis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz â Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg â Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach â Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest
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 Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld 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
- Duke of Anhalt â Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick â Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg â Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha â Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen â Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) â Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) â Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann (acting) to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland â August Köhler
Events
- 23 February â Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom.[1]
- 6 March â Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen.[2]
- 10 July â Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.[3]
- 25 November â Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.[4]
Date unknown
- Oscar Troplowitz invents the medical plaster patch called "Leukoplast" for Beiersdorf.
Births
- 11 January â Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
- 12 January â Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
- 19 January â Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
- 21 March â Karl Arnold, German politician (died 1958)
- 25 March â Yeshayahu Forder, German-Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
- 27 March â Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (died 1963)
- 17 May â Max Lorenz, German tenor (died 1975)
- 21 May â Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
- 27 May â Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
- 7 July â Gustav Knuth, German film actor (died 1987)
- 24 August â Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (died 1987)
- 8 October â Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
- 15 October â Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994)
- 5 December â Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
- 19 December â Rudolf Hell, German inventor (died 2002)
- 27 December â Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
- Undated â Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)
Deaths
- 5 January â Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1818)
- 27 January â Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
- 10 February â Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (b. 1818)[5]
- 6 July â Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)[6]
- 5 August â Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II (b. 1840 in the United Kingdom)
- 21 August â Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (b. 1829)[7]
- 23 October â Georg von Siemens, German banker (b. 1839)[8]
- 28 October â Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (b. 1849)
- 25 November â Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (b. 1839)[9]
- 6 December â Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (b. 1815)[10]
