1901 in Germany

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Events in the year 1901 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg

Grand duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann (acting) to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor)(2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
• Togoland - August Köhler

Events

• 23 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom. ^[1]
• 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen. ^[2]
• 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service. ^[3]
• 25 November – Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name. ^[4]

Births

• 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
• 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
• 19 January – Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
• 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
• 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German—Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
• 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
• 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
• 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994)
• 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
• 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
• Undated — Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)

Deaths

• 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818).
• 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
• 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (born 1818) ^[5]
• 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819) ^[6]
• 5 August - Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II (born 1840 in the United Kingdom)
• 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (born 1829) ^[7]
• 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker (born 1839) ^[8]
• 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (born 1849)
• 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (born 1839) ^[9]
• 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (born 1815) ^[10]

References

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2. "Kaiser Hit by a Missile Thrown into His Carriage", Chicago Daily Tribune, March 7, 1901, p. 1.
3. Harold Brearley (1957). The Development of the Trolley Bus. Oakwood Press. p. 8.
4. "Alois Alzheimer". Whonamedit? . Retrieved 21 October 2011.
5. Locher, Wolfgang Gerhard (November 2007). "Max von Kettenkoffer (1818–1901) as a Pioneer of Modern Hygiene and Preventive Medicine". Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 12 (6): 238–245. doi:10.1007/BF02898030. PMC   2723483 . PMID   21432069.
6. "Prince Hohenlohe Dead. Ex-Chancellor of Germany Expires in Switzerland". The New York Times . 7 July 1901. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
7. "Short biography and bibliography". Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science . Retrieved 10 April 2022.
8. McMurray, Jonathan (2001). Distant ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the construction of the Baghdad Railway. Westport, Conn: Praeger. p. 64. ISBN   9780275970635.
9. This article incorporates text from a publication that prior to 1923, is in the public domain : "Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel, 1839—1901", The Etude , Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Company
10. Hannavy, John (2013). Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. London: Routledge. p. 1484. ISBN   9781135873264.