1892 in Germany

none yes September 2020 1892 Events in the year 1892 in Germany. Incumbents National level Emperor – Wilhelm II Chancellor – Leo von Caprivi 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 – Louis IV to 13 March, then Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis III Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, 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 – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Colonial Governors Cameroon (Kamerun) – Bruno von Schuckmann (acting governor) to 5 January, then Eugen von Zimmerer (3rd term) German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Julius Freiherr von Soden German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Fritz Rose (commissioner) to 31 August, then Georg Schmiele (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company) from 1 September German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Curt von François (commissioner) Togoland – vacant to 4 June, then Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (2nd term) Events 25 July – German football club Hertha BSC is founded in Berlin. Undated German Open Tennis Championships is founded in Hamburg. Travemünde Week in Travemünde is started. Berlin Philharmonic is founded in Berlin. Births 30em 4 January – Siegfried Lehman, German-Israeli educator (died 1958) 14 January – Martin Niemöller, German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor (died 1984) 16 January – Wilhelm von Apell, German general (died 1969) 18 January – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (died 1956) 29 January – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (died 1947) 2 February – Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer (died 1968) 2 March – Felix Bressart, German actor (died 1949) 10 March – Hans Steinhoff, German film director (died 1945) 22 March – Johannes Frießner, German general (died 1971) 30 March – Erhard Milch, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (died 1972) 1 April – Anton Storch, German politician (died 1975) 3 April – Hans Rademacher, German mathematician (died 1969) 7 April – Julius Hirsch, German footballer (died 1945) 16 April – Dora Richter, German transgender woman, first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (died unknown) 23 April – Richard Huelsenbeck, German poet and writer (died 1974) 30 April – Gottlob Bauknecht, German businessman (died 1976) 2 May: Trude Hesterberg, German actress (died 1967) Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (died 1918) 14 May – Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (died 1983) 31 May – Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (died 1934) 12 June – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (died 1973) 22 June – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (died 1945) 27 June – Erich Köhler, German politician (died 1958) 30 June – Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (died 1951) 12 July – Harry Piel, German actor and film director (died 1963) 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic (died 1940) 22 July – Arthur Seyss-Inquart, German politician (died 1946) 15 August – Walther Nehring, German general (died 1983) 13 September – Victoria Louise of Prussia, German noblewoman (died 1980) 23 September – Lorenz Jaeger, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died 1975) 3 October – Bernhard Schweitzer, German archaeologist (died 1966) 9 November – Erich Auerbach, German philologist, scholar, and literature critic (died 1957) 24 November – Karl Steinhoff, German politician (died 1981) 1 December – Walter Bathe, German swimmer (died 1959) 7 December – Max Ehrlich, German actor, screenwriter and humour writer (died 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp) 19 December – Max Seydewitz, German politician (died 1987) Deaths July 2011 30em Undated – William Julius Mann, theologian (born 1819) 7 January – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (born 1819) 16 January – Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, German general and military writer (born 1827) 5 February – Theodor Marsson, German botanist (born 1816) 13 March – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1837) 14 March – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (born 1819) 21 April – Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (born 1803) 5 May – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (born 1818) 20 June – Albert Wolff, German sculptor (born 1814) 5 August – Henriette Feuerbach, German author (born 1812) 16 October – Georg Bleibtreu, German painter (born 1828) 28 October – Felix Otto Dessoff, German conductor (born 1835) 6 November – Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, German historian (born 1838) 6 December – Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (born 1816) 28 December – Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche, Norwegian painter (born 1837).Vincent Lerche Norsk biografisk leksikon Øyvind Storm Bjerke Helle, Knut Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo https://nbl.snl.no/Vincent_Lerche no 6 November 2019 Literature Frank Wedekind's magnum opus drama "Das Erwachen des Fruhlings" or "Spring Awakening" is set during this year with one of the play's protagonists Wendla Bergmann's death occurring on October 27. 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