1904 in Germany
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Events in the year 1904 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Wilhelm II
- Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia– Wilhelm II
- George to 15 October then Frederick Augustus III
- King of Württemberg – William II
Grand duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
- Frederick Francis IV
- Adolphus Frederick V
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe–Weimar–Eisenach – 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 to 26 September, and then Leopold, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld, as regents)
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Lineas regent)
- Reuss Younger Line– Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Frederick II, 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 (8th term) to 9 May, then Otto Gleim (acting governor) (1st term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch–Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch–Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch–Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
- German South–West Africa (Deutsch–Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland – Waldemar Horn
Events
- Herero and Namaqua Genocide.
- 3 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
- German Imperial Navyintroduces SOS as a distress signal.
- German Imperial Army, under Lothar von Trotha, defeat the Herero tribesmen at the Battle of Waterberg.
Architecture
- The Prussian House of Lords is rebuilt.
- The Kaiserbrücke in Mainzis completed.
- Publisher Pier Verlag established in Munich.
Arts
- January – Süddeutsche Monatshefte begins publication.
- Max Beckmann, Hans Purrmann, and Alexej von Jawlensky are added to the Berlin Secession group of artists.[1]
- Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth paints a series of three portraits depicting socialite Marianne Lichtwark.[2]
Commerce
- September – Stationery manufacturer Herlitz established in Berlin.
- Accumulatoren–Fabrik AFA establishes its battery making subsidiary VARTA in Hagen.
Diplomacy
- Convention of Istanbul, signed by a number of powers including Germany in 1888, came into force.[3]
Science
- Foundation of the German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare ZEFQ.
Sport
Association football
- 16 April – FC Einigkeit Braunschweigestablished.
- 4 May – FC Schalke 04established.
- 21 May – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established with Germany as a founder member.
- Westfalia Herneestablished.
- 1 July – Bayer 04 Leverkusen established.[4]
- 4 July – Borussia Fuldaestablished.
- Reinickendorfer FC Westestablished.
- 29 July – Alemannia Schwäbisch Gmünd established.[5]
- 4 August – FC Singen 04established.
- Date unknown – Germania Breslau, Sport Club Reuß, Fußball–Club Prussia Königsberg, Oberhausener SV and 1. Würzburger FV 04 amongst the other clubs established.
Other
- St. Louis, Missouri. Germany finishes second in the overall medal table with four gold medals, four silver and five bronze. The four gold medals all come in the swimming events, with two for Emil Rausch and one each for Walter Brack and Georg Zacharias.
- Date unknown – The inaugural Berlin City Chess Championship is won by Horatio Caro.
Transport
- The Berlin Mexikoplatz station is opened under the name Zehlendorf–Beerenstraße.
Ships launched
- SMS Deutschland (battleship)
- SMS Lothringen (battleship)
- SS Scharnhorst (passenger liner)
- SMS Yorck (armoured cruiser)
Publications
Drama
Non–fiction
Births
- 2 January – Walter Heitler, physicist
- Karl Brandt, Nazi physician
- 9 January – Wilhelm Groth, physical chemist
- 28 February – Alfred Bohrmann, astronomer
- 5 March – Karl Rahner, theologian
- 7 March – Kurt Weitzmann, art historian[10]
- 10 March – Adalbert Schneider, Navy officer
- 11 March – Albrecht von Hagen, Resistancefighter
- 12 March – Adolf Arndt, politician
- 21 March – Karl Leonhard, psychiatrist
- 24 March – Hans Ertel, natural scientist
- 26 March – Hermann Schroeder, composer
- 12 April – Paul Dahlke, actor
- 15 April – Valentin Krempl, bobsledder
- 17 April – Franz Reuß, Luftwaffegeneral
- SSofficer
- 28 April – Elisabeth Schumacher, Resistancefighter
- 4 May – Josef Pieper, philosopher
- SSofficer
- 9 May – Reinhard Schwarz–Schilling, composer
- 23 May – Johannes Flintrop, critic of Nazism
- 7 June – Werner Gruner, German weapons designer (died 1995)
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- 9 July – Ernst Küppers, swimmer
- 14 July – Hans von Herwarth, diplomat
- 15 July – Rudolf Arnheim, film theorist
- 2 August – Werner Seelenbinder, wrestler and communist
- 9 August – Hasso von Boehmer, Army officer
- 10 August – Karl Helling, chess master
- Klaus von Pape, Nazi 'martyr'
- 24 August – Ludwig Schmidseder, composer and pianist
- Nobel Prize in Medicinelaureate
- 30 August – Friedrich von Mellenthin, Army general
- 1 September – Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilungleader
- 8 September – Karl Hessenberg, mathematician
- 14 September – Walter Meyer, rower
- SSofficer
- 21 October – Basilea Schlink, founder and leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
- Roman Catholiccardinal
- 12 November – Edmund Veesenmayer, Nazi politician
- 13 November – Günter Reimann, communist activist
- 13 November – Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistancefighter
- SSofficer
- 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, surrealist painter
- 17 December – Josef–Franz Eckinger, Army officer
- 30 December – Edith Schultze–Westrum, actress
- Date unknown – Heinz Kloss, linguist
- Date unknown – Wolfgang Stresemann, orchestra leader
Deaths
- 4 January – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist
- 5 January – Karl Alfred von Zittel, palaeontologist
- 6 January – Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, electrical engineer
- 10 January – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, botanist
- 20 January – Albert von Maybach, railway manager
- 24 January – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman
- 24 February – Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Prussian general
- 5 March – Alfred von Waldersee, Field Marshal
- 22 March – Karl Moritz Schumann, botanist
- 1 April – Otto von Böhtlingk, Indologist
- 6 May – Franz von Lenbach, painter
- 21 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman
- , noblewoman
- Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg–Strelitz, nobleman
- 5 July – Franz Martin Hilgendorf, zoologist
- 4 August – Christoph von Sigwart, philosopher
- 5 August – Karl Weigert, pathologist
- 9 August – Friedrich Ratzel, geographer
- 26 August – Franz Riegel, internist
- 3 September – Heinrich Koebner, dermatologist
- 18 September – Herbert von Bismarck, politician
- 26 September – Ernest II, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld, nobleman, regent of the Principality of Lippe
- 8 October – Clemens Winkler, chemist who discovered germanium
- King of Saxony
- 29 October – Emil Schlagintweit, scholar of Tibetan Buddhism
- 10 November – Alphons Stübel, geologist and vulcanologist
- Hans von Hopfen, writer
- 2 December – Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern–Sigmaringen, nobleman
- Alexandrine of Baden (1820–1904), noblewoman
- 25 December – Guido Bodländer, chemist
- Date unknown
- Gustav Kessler, trade unionist
- Eduard von Martens, zoologist
- Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke, botanist
References
- ^ Lovis Corinth
- ^ Carolyn Helen Kay, Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886–1914, Buffalo NY, 2002, p. 103
- ISBN 978-0-7546-2436-3.
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fussball GmbH. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- 1.FC Normannia Gmünd. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ISBN 0-415-06043-5. Retrieved 15 December 2021 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780814730607.
- BMW Motorcycle Owners of America, Inc. 24 May 2005. Archived from the originalon 20 December 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ Notice de personne "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)" [Person notice "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ Notice de personne "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904-1988)" [Person notice "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904-1988)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ISBN 9781317884248.
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