1901 in Germany
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Events in the year 1901 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Wilhelm II
- Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia– Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert
- King of Württemberg – William II
Grand duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
- Frederick Francis IV
- 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
- Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeldas 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
- 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]
- 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)
- Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
- 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 — )
Deaths
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818).
- Kiaochow(Kiautschou)
- 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819)[6]
- Wilhelm II (born 1840 in the United Kingdom)
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References
- ISBN 9780869611135.
- ^ "Kaiser Hit by a Missile Thrown into His Carriage", Chicago Daily Tribune, March 7, 1901, p. 1.
- ^ Harold Brearley (1957). The Development of the Trolley Bus. Oakwood Press. p. 8.
- Whonamedit?. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- PMID 21432069.
- ^ "Prince Hohenlohe Dead. Ex-Chancellor of Germany Expires in Switzerland". The New York Times. 7 July 1901. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ "Short biography and bibliography". Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ISBN 9780275970635.
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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
- ISBN 9781135873264.
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