1902 in Germany

none April 2022 April 2022 1902 The following is a list of events from the year 1902 in Germany. Incumbents National level Emperor – Wilhelm IIWilliam II emperor of Germany Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-II-emperor-of-Germany 2023-02-09 www.britannica.com en Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülowhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68718566 GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR. West Gippsland Gazette 197 Victoria, Australia 18 March 1902 26 March 2023 4 (MORNING.) National Library of Australia State level Kingdoms King of Bavaria – Otto King of Prussia – Wilhelm II King of Saxony – Albert to 19 June, then George King of Württemberg – William II Grand duchies Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William 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 as regent) Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent) 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 Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Colonial governors Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term) to 3 February, then ... Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term) Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term) German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein Togoland – August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn Events December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Births 6 January – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (died 1994)Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, "Helmut Poppendick Affidavit, 14 January 1947", Harvard Law School Library Item No. 849. https://web.archive.org/web/20081025145958/http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/pflip.php?caseid=HLSL_NMT01&docnum=849&numpages=1&startpage=1&title=Affidavit.&color_setting=C 25 October 2008 17 January – Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (died 1986)National Archives The National Archives (United Kingdom) The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force: 1933-1945 London Public Record Office 2001 978-1-903365-30-4 117 30 January – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian (died 1983) 1 February – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (d. 1948) 5 February – Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979) 7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)Harris M. Lentz Obituaries in the Performing Arts McFarland & Company 1994 149 18 March – Siegfried Westphal, German general (died 1982) 21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987) 2 April – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974) Tschichold Jan Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974 National Library of Scotland Edinburgh 1982 9780902220539 8–9 25 April – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (died 1964) 10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958) 2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985) 12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970) 13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988) Laporte Leo Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac Que Indianapolis, Ind 2005 9780789733191 263 22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003) 5 September – Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944) 21 October – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990) 1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987) Sandford John Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture Routledge London New York 1999 9781136816031 323 4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)Who's who in Technology Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien 1984 154 22 November – Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989) 21 December – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944) Deaths August 2011 7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, writer (b. 1835) March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (b. 1821) April 5 – Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850) April 19 Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (b. 1846) Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (b. 1850) 19 June – Albert, King of Saxony, (b. 1828) 5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (b. 1821) 7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (b. 1832) 26 September – Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. (b. 1829) 25 November – Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic (b. 1841) References 1902 Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany