1916 in Germany
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Events in the year 1916 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig III
- 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 XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line â Heinrich XXVII, 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 Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
- 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 Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March â Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Albert Heinrich Schnee
Events
- 4 March â Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces.
- August - the Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz begins[1][2]
- 28 September - the 1916 Berlin strike begins[3]
- 4 September â Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.
Births
- 23 January â Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (died 1961)
- 12 February â Helmut Gröttrup, German electrical engineer (died 1981)
- 10 May â Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000)
- 9 June â Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died 1943)
- 26 June â Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
- 7 September â Käthe Menzel-Jordan, German architect and preservationist (died 2026)
- 20 September â Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)
Deaths
- 12 February â Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
- 4 March â Franz Marc, painter (born 1880)
- 11 May:
- Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
- Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
- 13 July â Josef Rieder (cyclist)
- 11 October â Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848).
- 8 November â Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884
- 4 December â Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892
- 5 December - Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, grandmother of Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1822 in the United Kingdom)
- 19 December â Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)
