1885 in Germany
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Events in the year 1885 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
- King of Prussia– William I
- King of Saxony – Albert
- King of Württemberg – Charles
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
- Frederick Francis II
- Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander
Principalities
- Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia(regent, appointed in 1885)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Julius Freiherr von Soden(governor) (1st term)
- Karl Peters(administrator)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner, appointed in 1885)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to May 1885, then Heinrich Ernst Göring(acting commissioner)
- Togoland – Heinrich Randad (provisional consul) to 26 June, then Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner)
- Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) from 8 April – Gustav Denhardt (resident)
Events
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- 17 February – German government grants an imperial charter to Carl Peters for establishment of a protectorate in East Africa.
- Berlin Conferenceregulates European colonization and trade in Africa.
- citizens. More than 30,000 people are forced across the border.
- water-cooled enginedesign.
- 8 April – The sultan of Witu cedes 25 square miles of territory to German brothers Clemens and Gustav Denhardt, which becomes the first German territory in Wituland.[1]
- 27 May – The remainder of the Wituland becomes the German Protectorate of Wituland (Deutsch-Witu).[1]
Undated
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was built in 1885
- automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year).[2]
- Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach produce the Daimler Reitwagen, regarded as the first motorcycle.[3][4][5]
Births
- 2 January – Anna Hübler, German pair skater (died 1976)
- 17 January – Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general (died 1968)
- 27 January – Eduard Künneke, German composer (died 1953)
- 1 February – Friedrich Kellner, German diarist (died 1970)
- 7 February – Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (died 1953)
- 11 March – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (died 1974)
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- 12 April – Hermann Hoth, German general (died 1971)
- 18 April – Claus Bergen, German painter (died 1964)
- 14 May – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (died 1973)
- Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, German-born Albanian noblewoman (died 1936)
- 2 June – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neuropathologist (died 1964)
- 9 June – Carl Hoffmann, German film director (died 1947)
- 30 June – Heinrich Schomburgk, German tennis player (died 1965)
- 6 July – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (died 1945)
- 8 July – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (died 1977)
- 8 July
- 24 July – Paul von Hase, German soldier (died 1944)
- 9 August – Hans Lachmann-Mosse, German publisher (died 1944)
- 7 September
- Eleonore Baur, German Nazi, only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (died 1981)
- Franz Eichhorst, German painter (died 1948)
- 9 September – Paul Henckels, German actor (died 1967)
- 14 September – Carl de Vogt, German actor (died 1970)
- 1 November – Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (died 1961)
- 8 November – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (died 1966)
- 9 November – Julius Ebbinghaus, German philosopher (died 1981)
- 24 November – Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (died 1955)
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- 30 November – Albert Kesselring, German Generalfeldmarshal of Luftwaffe (died 1960)
- 17 December – Theodor Steltzer, German politician (died 1967)
- 25 December
- Albert Betz, German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology (died 1968)
- Angela Zigahl, German teacher and politician (died 1955)
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Deaths
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- 12 January – Prince August of Württemberg, German nobleman and general in Army of Kingdom Württemberg (born 1813)
- 22 February – Carl Scheppig, German architect (born 1803)
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- 6 April – Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (born 1797)
- 7 April – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (born 1804)
- Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, head of the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern from 1869 and Prime Minister of Prussia (born 1811)
- 15 June – Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Prussian nobleman (born 1828)
- 16 June – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (born 1818)
- 17 June – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, German field marshal (born 1809)
- 24 August – Eduard Riedel, German architect (born 1813)
- 17 September – Gustav Becker, German clockmaker (born 1819)
- 23 September – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (born 1808)
- 17 November – Gustav Seyffarth, German egyptologist (born 1796)
- 6 December – Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (born 1820)
- 9 December – Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (born 1820)
References
- ^ a b German Wituland, a colonial rarity Archived 2004-04-07 at the Wayback Machine Afrol News, retrieved 28 October 2011
- ^ Benz, Carl Friedrich (1925). Lebensfahrt eines deutschen erfinders; erinnerungen eines achtzigjahrigen. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang.
- ISBN 1-56799-460-1.
- ISBN 1-4054-5466-0.
- ISBN 1-56458-303-1.
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