1895 in Germany

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← 1894 1893 1892 1895 in Germany → 1896 1897 1898
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1895 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1895 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

State level

Kingdoms

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

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Frederick Francis III
• Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe to 20 March, then Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe 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

• 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 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term) to 27 March, then ...von Lücke to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (4th term) to 26 October, then from 27 October Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele to 25 April, then Hermann Wissmann
• Landeshauptleute
  of the German New Guinea Company)
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
  (Landeshauptleute)
• Togoland – Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term) to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)

Events

• 5 May – German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf
  is founded.
• Röntgen rays
• 15 December – German football club Eintracht Braunschweig
  is founded.

• Hermann Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier first describe Fischer–Speier esterification
  .
• Wilhelm Emil Fein invents the electrically driven hand drill.
• Linde cycle
  .
• Grace Chisholm Young becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
• German trade unions have c. 270,000 members.

Births

• 20 January – Walter Bock, German chemist (died 1948
  )
• 14 February – Max Horkheimer German philosopher and sociologist (died 1973
  )
• 15 February – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (died 1945
  )
• 7 March – Werner Schrader, German officer (died 1944
  )
• 29 March – Ernst Jünger, German author (died 1998
  )
• 7 April
  :
  • Margarete Schön, German actress (died 1985)
  • Theodor Strünck, German lawyer (died 1945)
• 15 June – Paul Giesler, German politician (died 1945
  )
• 23 June – Joseph Vogt, German classical historian (died 1986
  )
• 6 July – Ernst Langlotz, German archaeologist (died 1978
  )
• 8 July – Heinrich-Hermann von Hülsen, German major general (died 1982
  )
• 10 July – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982
  )
• 9 August – Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (died 1980
  )
• 13 August – Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (died 1986
  )
• 26 August – Harald Paulsen, German actor (died 1954
  )
• 31 August – Karl Fiehler, German politician (died 1969
  )
• 4 September – Erich Weise, German historian and archivist (1972)^[1]
• 6 September – Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer, leader of the V-2 rocket programme (died 1980
  )
• 15 September – Hildebrand Gurlitt, German art dealer, art historian and war profiteer (died 1956
  )
• 25 September – Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (died 1944
  )
• 5 October – Ludwig Gehre, German officer (died 1945
  )
• Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (died 1945
  )
• 13 October – Kurt Schumacher, German politician (died 1952
  )
• 26 October – Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician (died 1981
  )
• 30 October – Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist (died 1964
  )
• 10 November – Franz Bachelin, German art director (died 1980
  )
• 16 November – Paul Hindemith, German composer and conductor (died 1963
  )
• 23 November – Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge (died 1961
  )
• 2 December – Erwin Casmir, fencer (died 1982
  )
• 29 December – Oswald Freisler, lawyer (died 1939
  )

Deaths

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