1904 in Germany

none April 2022 1904 Events in the year 1904 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 – 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 Grand Duke of Mecklenburg–Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg–Strelitz – Frederick William to 30 May, then 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 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 to 24 January, then 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 12 January – The Herero of Deutsch–Südwestafrika, under the leadership of Samuel Maharero, rise against German colonial rule. The rising marks the beginning of what has become known as the Herero and Namaqua Genocide. January 16 – Rosa Luxemburg is sentenced to 3 months in prison for lese majeste (election campaign in 1903). 3 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder. April - The German Imperial Navy introduces SOS as a distress signal. 11 August – The 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 Mainz is 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.Lovis Corinth Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth paints a series of three portraits depicting socialite Marianne Lichtwark.Carolyn Helen Kay, Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886–1914, Buffalo NY, 2002, p. 103 Commerce September – Stationery manufacturer Herlitz established in Berlin. Accumulatoren–Fabrik AFA establishes its battery making subsidiary VARTA in Hagen. Diplomacy 8 April – The Convention of Istanbul, signed by a number of powers including Germany in 1888, came into force.Allain Jean Jean Allain 2004 International Law in the Middle East: Closer to Power Than Justice London Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-0-7546-2436-3 53 Science Foundation of the German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare. Sport Association football 16 April – FC Einigkeit Braunschweig established. 4 May – FC Schalke 04 established. 21 May – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established with Germany as a founder member. 13 June – Westfalia Herne established. 1 July – Bayer 04 Leverkusen established.https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/page/bayer-usa ABOUT BAYER 04 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fussball GmbH en 22 January 2023 4 July – Borussia Fulda established. 25 July – Reinickendorfer FC West established. 29 July – Alemannia Schwäbisch Gmünd established.https://fc-normannia.de/club/historie/ Historie 1.FC Normannia Gmünd de 22 January 2023 4 August – FC Singen 04 established. Date unknown – Germania Breslau, Sport Club Reuß, Fußball–Club Prussia Königsberg, Oberhausener SV and 1. Würzburger FV 04 amongst the other clubs established. Other 1 July to 24 November – 1904 Summer Olympics take place in 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 November 1 – The Berlin Mexikoplatz station is opened under the name Zehlendorf–Beerenstraße. Ships launched May 14 – SS Scharnhorst (passenger liner) May 14 – SMS Yorck (armoured cruiser) May 27 – SMS Lothringen (battleship) November 19 – SMS Deutschland (battleship) Publications Drama Erich Mühsam – The Con Men Frank Wedekind – Die Büchse der Pandora Non–fiction Ernst Haeckel – Kunstformen der Natur Births 30em 2 January – Walter Heitler, physicist (died 1981) 8 January – Karl Brandt, Nazi physician (died 1948) 9 January – Wilhelm Groth, physical chemist (died 1977) 14 January – Ernst Wellmann, army officer (died 1970)https://books.google.com/books?id=Pda3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 Lucke Fritz Edwards Robert Olive Michael Panzer Wedge Two: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow Stackpole Military History Series Stackpole Books 2013 215 978-0-8117-1205-7 15 December 2021 Google Books 29 January – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (died 1976)https://books.google.com/books?id=UZQqBgAAQBAJ Lange Bettina Gehlen, Arnold Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers Brown Stuart Collinson Diané Wilkinson Robert London and New York Routledge Reference 1996 269–270 0-415-06043-5 15 December 2021 Google Books 18 February – Otto Rahn, medievalist and SS officer (died 1939) Clarke Nicholas The occult roots of Nazism : secret Aryan cults and their influence on Nazi ideology: the Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 New York University Press New York 1992 9780814730607 188 22 February – Ernst Jakob Henne, racing driver (died 2005)http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/Henne/HenneObit.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20111220044430/http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/Henne/HenneObit.htm 20 December 2011 Racing legend Ernst Jakob Henne dies 24 May 2005 BMW Motorcycle Owners of America, Inc. 26 December 2021 28 February – Alfred Bohrmann, astronomer 5 March – Karl Rahner, theologian 7 March – Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the RSHA (died 1942)((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) Reinhard Heydrich Encyclopedia Britannica 31 May 2021 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich 16 January 2022 7 March – Kurt Weitzmann, art historianhttp://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11929046r Notice de personne "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)" Person notice "Weitzmann, Kurt (1904-1993)" 25 September 2019 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 17 March 2022 10 March – Adalbert Schneider, Navy officer 11 March – Albrecht von Hagen, Resistance fighter 12 March – Adolf Arndt, politician 21 March – Karl Leonhard, psychiatrist 24 March – Hans Ertel, natural scientist 26 March – Hermann Schroeder, composer 6 April – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (died 1988)http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12029534q Notice de personne "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904-1988)" Person notice "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904-1988)" 18 March 2013 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 14 February 2022 12 April – Paul Dahlke, actor 15 April – Valentin Krempl, bobsledder 17 April – Franz Reuß, Luftwaffe general 27 April – Fritz Weitzel, SS officer 28 April – Elisabeth Schumacher, Resistance fighter 4 May – Josef Pieper, philosopher 8 May – Franz Schreiber, SS officer 23 May – Johannes Flintrop, critic of Nazism 7 June – Werner Gruner, German weapons designer (died 1995) 14 June – Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistance fighter (died 2007) 20 June – Heinrich von Brentano, politician (died 1964) Webb Adrian The Longman companion to Germany since 1945 Longman London, England 1998 9781317884248 268 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 16 August – Klaus von Pape, Nazi 'martyr' 24 August – Ludwig Schmidseder, composer and pianist 29 August – Werner Forssmann, physician and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate 30 August – Friedrich von Mellenthin, Army general 1 September – Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader 8 September – Karl Hessenberg, mathematician 14 September Walter Meyer, rower Richard Mohaupt, German composer and kapellmeister (died 1957) 21 October – Basilea Schlink, founder and leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary 23 October – Maximilien de Furstenberg, Roman Catholic cardinal 12 November – Edmund Veesenmayer, Nazi politician 13 November – Günter Reimann, communist activist 13 November – Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistance fighter 26 November – Bernhard Krüger, SS officer 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, surrealist painter Date unknown – Heinz Kloss, linguist Date unknown – Wolfgang Stresemann, orchestra leader Deaths 30em 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 24 May – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg, noblewoman 30 May – 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 15 October – George, King of Saxony 29 October – Emil Schlagintweit, scholar of Tibetan Buddhism 10 November – Alphons Stübel, geologist and vulcanologist 19 November – Hans von Hopfen, writer 2 December – Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern–Sigmaringen, nobleman 20 December – 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 1904 Category:Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany