1908 in Germany
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Events in the year 1908 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony â Frederick Augustus III
- 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 Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe â Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line â 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 II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick â Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg â Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg to 7 February, then Ernst II, 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 Theodor Seitz (3rd term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) â Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Bruno von Schuckmann
- Togoland â Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen
Events
- 8 July â The paper coffee filter, created by German housewife Melitta Bentz, is patented.[1]
- 28 October â Daily Telegraph Affair: a British newspaper publishes undiplomatic remarks made by Emperor Wilhelm.
- date unknown
- German association football club BFC Nord 08 Berlin is founded.[2]
- Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff is appointed German ambassador to the United States.
Births
- 26 January â Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (died 2009)[3]
- 27 January â Trude Eipperle, German operatic soprano (died 1997)[4]
- 4 February â Heinz Pollay, German equestrian (died 1979)
- 10 February â Alfred Kranzfelder, German naval officer (died 1945)
- 25 February â Karl Heinz Stroux, German actor, film- and theatredirector (died 1985)
- 2 March â Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (died 1990)
- 7 March â Inge Viermetz, German official and defendant at the Nuremberg Trials (date of death unknown)
- 12 March â Kurt Stöpel, German bicycle racer (died 1997)
- 17 March â Brigitte Helm, German film actress (died 1996 in Switzerland)
- 25 March â Helmut Käutner, German film director (died 1980)
- 26 March â Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (died 1981)
- 15 April â Richard Löwenthal, German author and journalist (died 1991)
- 19 April â Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (died 1968)
- 5 May â Kurt Böhme, German bass (died 1989)
- 7 May â Max Grundig, German entrepreneur (died 1989)
- 19 May â Rolf Dahlgrün, German politician (died 1969)
- 20 May â Carlo Otte, Nazi administrator[5]
- 22 May â Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player (died 1985)
- 11 June â Karl Hein German athlete (died 1982)
- 24 June â Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
- 31 July â Franz Meyers, German politician (died 2002)
- 4 August â Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994)
- 10 August â Hanan Rubin, German-born Israeli politician (died 1962)
- 18 August â Heinrich Hellwege, German politician (died 1991)
- 27 August â Karl Ernst Rahtgens, German officer (died 1944)
- 20 September â Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1982)
- 22 September â Fritz Gunst, German water polo player (died 1992)
- 9 October â Werner von Haeften, Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot (died 1944)
- 12 October â Georg Henneberg, German physician (died 1996)
- 14 October â Rudolf Ismayr, German weightlifter (died 1998)
- 25 October â Gotthard Handrick, German athlete and fighter pilot (died 1978)
- 26 October â Richard Häussler, German actor (died 1964)
- 11 November â Martin Held, German actor (died 1992)
- 20 November â Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1968)
- 21 November â Franz Pfnür, German alpine skier (died 1996)
Deaths
- 5 January â Joseph von Mering, German physician (born 1849)
- 9 January â Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832)[6]
- 22 January â August Wilhelmj, German violinist (born 1845)[7]
- 7 February â Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, nobleman (born 1826)
- 24 March â Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (born 1821)
- 27 March â Johann Georg Mönckeberg, politician (born 1839)
- 26 April â Karl Möbius, German zoologist (born 1825)[8]
- 17 May:
- Jacques Blumenthal, German pianist and composer (born 1829)
- Carl Koldewey, German Arctic explorer (born 1837)[9]
- 4 June â Hermann von der Hude, German architect (born 1830)
- 13 June â Henry Lomb, German-American optician, founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1828)
- 10 July â Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, German botanist (born 1817)
- 29 July â Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch, German sculptor (born 1856)
- 3 November â Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861)[10]
- 20 November â Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (born 1829)[11]
