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HOW IT WORKS
1895 in Germany
Summary
Events in the year
1895 in
Germany
.
←
1894
1893
1892
1895
in
Germany
→
1896
1897
1898
Decades:
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
See also:
Other events of 1895
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
National level
edit
Kaiser
–
Wilhelm II
Chancellor
–
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
State level
edit
Kingdoms
edit
King of Bavaria
–
Otto
King of Prussia
– Wilhelm II
King of Saxony
–
Albert
King of Württemberg
–
William II
Grand Duchies
edit
Grand Duke of Baden
–
Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse
–
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
edit
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
–
Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
to 20 March, then
Alexander, Prince of Lippe
(with
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
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
edit
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
–
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
–
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
edit
Cameroon
(Kamerun) –
Jesko von Puttkamer
(3rd term)
to 27 March, then ...von Lücke to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer
(4th term)
to 26 October, then from 27 October
Theodor Seitz
(2nd term)
German East Africa
(Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele to 25 April, then
Hermann Wissmann
German New Guinea
(Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gerog Schmiele to 3 March, then Hugo Rüdiger
(both
Landeshauptleute
of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa
(Deutsch-Südwestafrika) –
Theodor Leutwein
(Landeshauptleute)
Togoland
–
Jesko von Puttkamer
(Landeshauptleute)
(2nd term)
to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then
August Köhler
(Landeshauptleute)
Events
edit
First medical X-ray by
Wilhelm Röntgen
of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand
5 May
– German football club
Fortuna Düsseldorf
is founded.
8 November
–
Wilhelm Röntgen
produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or
Röntgen rays
15 December
– German football club
Eintracht Braunschweig
is founded.
Undated
edit
Hermann Emil Fischer
and Arthur Speier first describe
Fischer–Speier esterification
.
Wilhelm Emil Fein
invents the electrically driven hand
drill
.
Carl von Linde
files for patent of the
Linde cycle
.
Grace Chisholm Young
becomes the first woman awarded a doctorate at a German university.
German
trade unions
have c. 270,000 members.
Births
edit
20 January
–
Walter Bock
, German chemist (died
1948
)
14 February
–
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (died
1973
)
15 February
–
Wilhelm Burgdorf
, German general (died
1945
)
7 March
–
Werner Schrader
, German officer (died
1944
)
29 March
–
Ernst Jünger
, German author (died
1998
)
7 April
:
Margarete Schön
, German actress (died
1985
)
Theodor Strünck
, German lawyer (died
1945
)
15 June
–
Paul Giesler
, German politician (died
1945
)
23 June
–
Joseph Vogt
, German classical historian (died
1986
)
6 July
–
Ernst Langlotz
, German archaeologist (died
1978
)
8 July
–
Heinrich-Hermann von Hülsen
, German major general (died
1982
)
10 July
–
Carl Orff
, German composer (died
1982
)
9 August
–
Franz Schafheitlin
, German actor (died
1980
)
13 August
–
Werner Dankwort
, German diplomat (died
1986
)
26 August
–
Harald Paulsen
, German actor (died
1954
)
31 August
–
Karl Fiehler
, German politician (died
1969
)
4 September
–
Erich Weise
, German historian and archivist (
1972
)
[1]
6 September
–
Walter Dornberger
, German Army artillery officer, leader of the V-2 rocket programme (died
1980
)
15 September
–
Hildebrand Gurlitt
, German art dealer, art historian and war profiteer (died
1956
)
25 September
–
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
, German resistance fighter (died
1944
)
5 October
–
Ludwig Gehre
, German officer (died
1945
)
10 October
–
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
, German field marshal (died
1945
)
13 October
–
Kurt Schumacher
, German politician (died
1952
)
26 October
–
Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött
, German politician (died
1981
)
30 October
–
Gerhard Domagk
German pathologist and bacteriologist (died
1964
)
10 November
–
Franz Bachelin
, German
art director
(died
1980
)
16 November
–
Paul Hindemith
, German composer and conductor (died
1963
)
23 November
–
Rudolf Katz
, German politician and judge (died
1961
)
2 December
–
Erwin Casmir
, fencer (died
1982
)
29 December
–
Oswald Freisler
, lawyer (died
1939
)
Deaths
edit
13 March
–
Louise Otto-Peters
, German women's rights movement activist (born
1819
)
20 March
–
Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
, nobleman (born
1824
)
31 March
–
Georg von Dollmann
, German architect (born
1830
)
11 April
–
Julius Lothar Meyer
, German chemist (born
1830
)
23 April
–
Carl Ludwig
, German physician and physiologist (born
1816
)
30 April
–
Gustav Freytag
, German playwright (born
1816
)
23 May
–
Franz Ernst Neumann
, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (born
1798
)
2 June
–
Heinrich von Friedberg
, German politician (born
1813
)
30 June
–
Hermann Knoblauch
, German physicist (born
1820
)
14 July
–
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
, German writer (born
1825
)
1 August
–
Heinrich von Sybel
, German historian (born
1817
)
5 August
–
Friedrich Engels
, German philosopher, social scientist and journalist (born
1820
)
28 August
–
Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia
, Prussian princess (born
1857
)
8 September
–
Adam Opel
, German founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (born
1837
)
24 September
–
Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben
, German surgeon (born
1819
)
8 November
–
Johannes Overbeck
, German archaeologist (born 1826)
11 November
–
Gustav Langenscheidt
, German publisher (born
1832
)
14 December
–
Paul Melchers
, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (born
1813
)
References
edit
^
Erich Maschke; Erich Weise; Kurt Forstreuter, Sammelbesprechung über neuere polnische Literatur, in: AltprF 10, 1933, S. 148