1916 in Germany

none yes 1916 Events in the year 1916 in Germany. Incumbents National level Emperor – Wilhelm II Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg State level Kingdoms King of Bavaria – Ludwig III King of Prussia – Wilhelm II King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III King of Württemberg – William II Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick VI Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent) Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont Duchies Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Colonial Governors Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation) German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee Events July 2011 4 March – Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces. August - the Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz beginsZografos Anastasios Disarmed and Captive: Greek Gendarmes in Görlitz 2019 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26102-3_7 European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War 89–102 Campion Jonas 2023-03-24 Cham Springer International Publishing en 10.1007/978-3-030-26102-3_7 978-3-030-26102-3 López Laurent Payen Guillaume subscription Horosēma Hellēno-germanikōn scheseōn 2010 Hidryma tēs Voulēs tōn Hellēnōn gia ton Koinovouleutismo kai tē Dēmokratia Wolfgang Schultheiss Euangelos K. Chrysos 978-960-6757-28-0 Athēna 720573358 August 28 – WWI: Germany declares war on Romania. Italy declares war on Germany. 28 September - the 1916 Berlin strike beginsHoffrogge Ralf https://books.google.com/books?id=ZInPBAAAQBAJ Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement 11 September 2014 Brill 978-90-04-28006-9 37 en 10.1163/9789004280069 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces. Date unknown The 1916 Summer Olympics are cancelled in Berlin Food is rationed in the German Empire. Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine, is first synthesized. Births July 2011 30em 10 January – Richard Münch, German actor (died 1987) 23 January – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (died 1961) 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, German electrical engineer (died 1981) 4 March – Hans Eysenck, German-born British psychologist (died 1997) 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000) 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died 1943) 22 June – Emil Fackenheim, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (died 2003) 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977) 2 July – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German WWII pilot (died 1982) 17 July – Henning Brandis, German physician and microbiologist (died 2004) 14 August – Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German night fighter pilot and flying ace (died 1944) 7 September – Käthe Menzel-Jordan, German architect and preservationist (died 2026) 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007) 26 November – Gerhard Unger, German tenor (died 2011) 19 December – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (died 2010) Deaths August 2011 30em 12 February – Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831) 4 March – Franz Marc, painter (born 1880) 11 May: Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873) Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873) 13 July – Josef Rieder (cyclist) 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848). 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884) 4 December – Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892) 5 December - Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, grandmother of Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1822 in the United Kingdom) 19 December – Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830) References 1916 Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany