1881 in Germany

Events from the year 1881 in Germany.

Incumbents

=National level=

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

=State level=

==Kingdoms==

==Grand Duchies==

==Principalities==

==Duchies==

Events

31 March – last Anti-Socialist Law is passed by the German Reichstag.
16 May – Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, world's first electric tramway, starts in Berlin.
25 September – in Meckesheim physician Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer performs the first modern Caesarean section, the transverse incision technique to minimise bleeding.
27 October – German federal election, 1881

Births

1 January – Hermann Schmitz, German industrialist (died 1960)
4 January – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (died 1919){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Lehmbruck|title=Wilhelm Lehmbruck|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=27 February 2024}}
17 January – Karl Scharnagl, German politician (died 1963)
16 February – Hans Vogel, German politician (died 1945)
16 February – Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (died 1956)
23 March – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (died 1965){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hermann-Staudinger|title=Hermann Staudinger|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=27 February 2024}}
1 April – Wilhelm Sollmann, German journalist and politician (died 1951)
3 April – Hans Kniep, German botanist (died 1930)
19 April – Ernst Schneppenhorst, German politician (died 1945)
2 May – Ernst Legal, German actor (died 1955)
18 May – Erwin Madelung, German mathematician (died 1972)
30 May – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (died 1968)
31 May – Heinrich Burger, German figure skater (died 1942)
9 June – Felix von Luckner, German author, sailor and nobleman (died 1966)
24 June – Heinz Tietjen, German conductor (died 1967)
29 June – Gottlob Walz, German diver (died 1943)
27 July – Hans Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hans-Fischer|title=Hans Fischer|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=27 February 2024}}
28 July – Günther Quandt, German industrialist (died 1954)
8 August – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (died 1954)
26 August – Franz Gürtner, German jurist and politician (died 1941)
4 October – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (died 1948)
9 October – Friedrich Syrup, German politician (died 1945)
12 November – Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat (died 1944)
12 November – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (died 1954)
2 December – Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (died 1956)
4 December – Erwin von Witzleben, German officer (died 1944)
15 December – Eugen Bolz, German politician (died 1945){{cite news|url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/eugen-bolz/?no_cache=1|title=Eugen Bolz|publisher=German Resistance Memorial Center|access-date=27 February 2024|language=de}}
25 December – Christian Hülsmeyer, German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur (died 1957)
31 December – Max Pechstein, German painter (died 1955)

Deaths

7 April – Johann Hinrich Wichern, German religious leader (born 1808)
15 May – Franz von Dingelstedt, German poet and dramatist (born 1814)
2 June – Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg, German diplomat (born 1815)
23 June – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (born 1804)
10 July – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (born 1812)
11 October – Friedrich Hitzig, German architect (born 1811){{cite news|url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/11934792X|title=Friedrich Hitzig|publisher=Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek|access-date=27 February 2024|language=de}}

References

Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany

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