1912 in Germany
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Events in the year 1912 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 Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- 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 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 .... Hansen (acting governor) to 29 March, then Karl Ebermaier (1st term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) â Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg to 22 April, then Albert Heinrich Schnee
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Erich Schultz-Ewerth
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Seitz
- Togoland â Edmund Brückner to 19 June, then Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
Events
- January 12 â German federal election, 1912
- October 17 â Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel
- December 6 â The Nefertiti Bust was found at Amarna by the German Oriental Company (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft â DOG), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.
- December 24 â Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.[1]
Undated
- German company Fresenius is founded by Eduard Fresenius.
- Alfred Wegener proposes a fully formulated theory of continental drift and gave the supercontinent Pangaea its name.
- Max von Laue suggests using crystal lattices to diffract X-rays.
- Neosalvarsan becomes available and supersedes the more toxic and less water-soluble salvarsan as an effective treatment for syphilis.
Births
- 16 January â Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986)
- 21 January â Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000)
- 1 February â Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977)
- 5 February â Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
- 18 February â Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992)
- 24 February â Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006)
- 3 March â Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999)
- 4 March â Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died 1996)
- 6 March â Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997)
- 8 March â Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (died 1941)
- 13 March â Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004)
- 22 March â Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000)
- 23 March â Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
- 29 March â Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)[2]
- 31 March â Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989)
- 29 April â Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
- 2 May:
- Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985)
- Karl Adam, German rowing coach (died 1976)
- 9 May â Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010)
- 1 June â Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012)
- 5 June â Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
- 11 June - Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist (died 1996)
- 21 June â Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944)
- 28 June â Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007)
- 30 June â Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003)
- 8 July â Christel Goltz, German operatic soprano (died 2008)
- 9 July
- Willi Stadel, German gymnast (died [1999)
- Albrecht Obermaier, German naval officer (died 2004)
- 28 July â Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988)
- 3 August:
- Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
- Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (died 1988)
- 14 August â Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
- 31 August â Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941)
- 2 September â Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017)
- 19 September â Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011)[3]
- 14 October â Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940)
- 1 November â Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer (died 2013)
- 28 November â Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992)
- 29 November â Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944)
- Date unknown
- Hans Metzger, former German diplomat
- Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (died 1994)[4]
Deaths
- 8 January â Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
- 5 February â Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831)
- 8 February â Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
- 5 March â Rochus von Liliencron, German germanist and historian (born 1820)
- 12 March â Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Dönitz, German physician, anatomist, zoologist and entomologist (born 1838)
- 30 March â Karl May, German writer (born 1842)
- 30 July â Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843)
- 10 August â Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841)
- 24 September â Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842)
- 10 October â Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888)
- 27 October â Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)
- 22 November â Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846)
- 28 November â Otto Brahm, German drama and literary critic (born 1856)
- 23 December â Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
- 30 December â Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)
