1901 in Germany

none yes April 2022 February 2021 1901 The following is a list of events from the year 1901 in Germany. Incumbents National level Emperor – 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 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 – Charles Alexander to 5 January, then 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 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) 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. Martin C. G. C. Maps and surveys of Malaŵi: a history of cartography and the land survey profession: exploration methods of David Livingstone on Lake "Nyassa": hydrographic survey and international boundaries: geographical, environmental, and land registration data in central Africa A.A. Balkema Cape Town 1980 9780869611135 109 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen."Kaiser Hit by a Missile Thrown into His Carriage", Chicago Daily Tribune, March 7, 1901, p. 1. 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.Harold Brearley The Development of the Trolley Bus Oakwood Press 1957 8 25 November – Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/177.html Alois Alzheimer Whonamedit? 2011-10-21 25 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100325195844/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/177.html dead Date unknown Oscar Troplowitz invents the medical plaster patch called "Leukoplast" for Beiersdorf. 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) 21 March – Karl Arnold, German politician (died 1958) 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German-Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970) 27 March – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (died 1963) 17 May – Max Lorenz, German tenor (died 1975) 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989) 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976) 7 July – Gustav Knuth, German film actor (died 1987) 24 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (died 1987) 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) 19 December – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (died 2002) 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992) Undated – Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945) Deaths 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1818) 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou) 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (b. 1818)Locher Wolfgang Gerhard Max von Kettenkoffer (1818–1901) as a Pioneer of Modern Hygiene and Preventive Medicine Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine November 2007 12 6 238–245 10.1007/BF02898030 21432069 2723483 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)https://www.nytimes.com/1901/07/07/archives/prince-hohenlohe-dead-exchancellor-of-germany-expires-in.html The New York Times Prince Hohenlohe Dead. Ex-Chancellor of Germany Expires in Switzerland. 7 July 1901 28 April 2010 5 August – Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II (b. 1840 in the United Kingdom) 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (b. 1829)http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per69 Short biography and bibliography Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 10 April 2022 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker (b. 1839) McMurray Jonathan Distant ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the construction of the Baghdad Railway Praeger Westport, Conn 2001 9780275970635 64 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (b. 1849) 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (b. 1839)Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel, 1839—1901 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (b. 1815) Hannavy John Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography Routledge London 2013 9781135873264 1484 References 1901 Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany