1902 in Germany
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The following is a list of events from the year 1902 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony â Albert to 19 June, then George
- 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 Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
- Reuss Elder Line â Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
- 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) to 3 February, then ... Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) â Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland â August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn
Events
- DecemberâFebruary 1903 â Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Births
- 6 January â Helmut Poppendick, German physician (died 1994)[3]
- 17 January â Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (died 1986)[4]
- 30 January â Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian (died 1983)
- 1 February â Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (d. 1948)
- 5 February â Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
- 7 March â Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)[5]
- 18 March â Siegfried Westphal, German general (died 1982)
- 21 March â Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
- 2 April â Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)[6]
- 25 April â Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died 1964)
- 10 July â Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
- 2 August â Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
- 12 August â Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
- 13 August â Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)[7]
- 22 August â Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003)
- 5 September â Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944)
- 21 October â Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990)
- 1 November â Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)[8]
- 4 November â Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)[9]
- 22 November â Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989)
- 21 December â Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944)
Deaths
- 7 January â Wilhelm Hertz, writer (b. 1835)
- March 11 â Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (b. 1821)
- April 5 â Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
- April 19
- Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (b. 1846)
- Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (b. 1850)
- 19 June â Albert, King of Saxony, (b. 1828)
- 5 September â Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (b. 1821)
- 7 September â Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (b. 1832)
- 26 September â Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. (b. 1829)
- 25 November â Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic (b. 1841)