1896 in Germany

Events in the year 1896 in Germany.

Incumbents

=National level=

=State level=

==Kingdoms==

==Grand Duchies==

==Principalities==

==Duchies==

==Colonial Governors==

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann to 3 December, then Eduard von Liebert
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Hugo Rüdiger to 17 August, then from 22 September Curt von Hagen (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
Togoland – August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)

Events

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12 April – German football club Hannover 96 is founded.
1 June – Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung in Berlin is opened.

=Undated=

Gottlieb Daimler produces the first gasoline truck.
Emperor William Monument in Porta Westfalica is completed.
German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives the Wien approximation.

Births

11 January – Heinrich Stuhlfauth, German football player and goalkeeper (died 1966)
4 February – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (died 1997)
9 February – Erich Vagts, German politician (died 1980)
14 February – Werner Richard Heymann, German film composer (died 1961)
23 February – Herbert Weichmann, German politician (died 1983)
25 February – Ida Noddack, German chemist (died 1978)
2 March – Caesar von Hofacker, German colonel (died 1944)
22 March – Karl Dannemann, German actor (died 1945)
1 April – Wilhelm Sauter, German painter (died 1948)
13 May – Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1967)
20 May – Paul Kemp, German actor (died 1953)
9 June – Karl Sack, German jurist (died 1945)
16 July – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German physician (died 1969)
23 July – Reinhold Frank, German lawyer (died 1945)
19 August – Josef Kammhuber, German general (died 1986)
23 August – Hubert von Meyerinck, German actor (died 1971)
15 September – Theodor Haubach, German journalist (died 1945)
14 October – Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police officer and politician (died 1944)
18 October – Friedrich Hollaender, German film composer and author (died 1976)
30 October – Roma Bahn, German actress (died 1975)
9 November – Hellmut von der Chevallerie, German general (died 1965)
28 November – Otto Graf, German actor (died 1977)
3 December – Carlo Schmid, German politician (died 1979)
18 December – Hans Otto Erdmann, German officer (died 1944)
27 December – Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1977)
31 December – Carl Ludwig Siegel, German mathematician (died 1981)

Deaths

29 February – Albrecht von Stosch, German admiral (born 1818)
28 April – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (born 1834)
18 May – Otto von Camphausen, German politician (born 1812)
20 May – Clara Schumann, German musician and composer (born 1819)
2 June – Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, German geographer, explorer and author (born 1831)
11 July – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (born 1814)
13 July – August Kekulé, German chemist (born 1829)
10 August – Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of aviation (born 1848)
13 August – Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, German mathematician (born 1821)
22 October – Christian Roos, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1826)
3 November – Eugen Baumann, German chemist (born 1846)
19 November – Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician (born 1837)
December – Bianka Blume, German opera singer (born 1843).{{cite book|last1=Kutsch|first1=Karl-Josef|last2=Riemens|first2=Leo|last3=Rost |first3=Hansjörg|author1-link=Karl-Josef Kutsch|author2-link=Leo Riemens|title=Großes Sängerlexikon Volume 4|date=22 February 2012|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=9783598440885|page=456 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gro%C3%9Fes_S%C3%A4ngerlexikon/dsfq_5dFeL0C?hl=en&gbpv=0|language=de}}
17 December – Paul Beiersdorf, German pharmacist (born 1836)
26 December — Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist (born 1818)

References

Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany

Germany

Category:1890s in Germany