1891 in Germany

Events in the year 1891 in Germany.

Incumbents

=National level=

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Leo von Caprivi

=State level=

==Kingdoms==

King of Bavaria – Otto
King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
King of Saxony – Albert
King of Württemberg – Charles to 6 October, then William II

==Grand Duchies==

==Principalities==

==Duchies==

==Colonial Governors==

Cameroon (Kamerun) – from 7 August Bruno von Schuckmann (acting governor)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term) to 21 February, then Julius Freiherr von Soden (with ... Rüdiger, acting governor)
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Fritz Rose (commissioner)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Louis Nels (acting commissioner) to March, then Curt von François (commissioner)
Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner) to 14 April, then vacant

Events

23–24 January – 1891 European Figure Skating Championships in Hamburg

=Undated=

German company Dr. Oetker is founded in Bielefeld.{{Cite book |last=Freedman |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tWMtRLaZOEC |title=Food: The History of Taste |date=2007 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-25476-3 |pages=242 |language=en}}
Robert Koch Institute is founded in Berlin.
International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main
The modern taximeter is invented by German Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn.{{cite magazine |last=McArdle |first=Megan |date=2012-05-01 |title=Why You Can't Get a Taxi |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-can-8217-t-get-a-taxi/8942/# |magazine=The Atlantic |accessdate=2015-10-02}}
The Fischer projection is devised by Hermann Emil Fischer.
August Thyssen and Joseph Thyssen found German steel company Thyssen.

Births

8 January – Walther Bothe, German physicist (died 1957)
22 January – Bruno Loerzer, German aviator and air force general (died 1960)
24 January – Walter Model, German field marshal (died 1945)
27 January – Wilhelm Morgner, German painter (died 1917)
31 January – Kurt von Plettenberg, German forester (died 1945)
14 February – Erich Engel, film and theatre director (died 1966)
15 February – Josef Wintrich, German judge (died 1958)
17 February – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and Zionist (died 1965)
3 March – Fritz Rumey, German World War I fighter ace (died 1918)
11 March – Gertrud Wolle, German film actress (died 1952)
12 March – Hermann Stenner, German painter (died 1914)
24 March – Rudolf Berthold, German fighter pilot (died 1920)
28 March – Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (died 1959)
2 April – Max Ernst, German painter (died 1976)
10 May – Anton Dostler, German general (died 1945)
13 May – Fritz Rasp, German actor (died 1976)
13 May – Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1956)
16 May – Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (died 1918)
18 May – Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (died 1970)
22 May – Johannes R. Becher, German politician, poet and novelist (died 1958)
21 June - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
14 July – Fritz Kampers, German actor (died 1950)
14 July – Werner Rittberger, German figure skater (died 1975)
29 July – Bernhard Zondek, Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (died 1966)
7 August – Johannes Joseph van der Velden, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (died 1954)
4 September – Fritz Todt, German engineer (died 1942)
16 September – Karl Dönitz, German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II (died 1980)
22 September – Hans Albers, German actor (died 1960)
9 October – Kurt von Tippelskirch, German general (died 1957)
22 October – Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg, German politician and landowner (died 1958)
25 October – Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (died 1962)
14 November – Josef Magnus Wehner, German poet and playwright (died 1973)
15 November – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)
16 November – Julius Leber, German politician (died 1945)
2 December – Otto Dix, German painter and forced Volkssturm conscript (died 1969)
6 December – Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator and fighter ace (died 1961)
10 December – Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1970)
17 December – Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I fighter ace (died 1917)

Deaths

26 January – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer and inventor (born 1832)
27 February – Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral (born 1843)
14 March – Ludwig Windthorst, German politician (born 1812)
24 April – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal, chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years (born 1800)
22 May – Ernst Julius Hähnel, German sculptor (born 1811)
23 June – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, chemist (born 1804)
21 June – Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, general (born 1832)
6 October – Charles I, King of Württemberg (born 1823)
14 December – Ferdinand von Roemer, German geologist (born 1818)
29 December – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (born 1823)

References

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