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1881 in Germany
Summary
Events from the year
1881 in
Germany
.
←
1880
1879
1878
1881
in
Germany
→
1882
1883
1884
Decades:
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
See also:
Other events of 1881
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
National level
edit
Kaiser
–
William I
Chancellor
–
Otto von Bismarck
State level
edit
Kingdoms
edit
King of Bavaria
–
Ludwig II
King of Prussia
– William I
King of Saxony
–
Albert
King of Württemberg
–
Charles
Grand Duchies
edit
Grand Duke of Baden
–
Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse
–
Louis IV
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
–
Frederick Francis II
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
–
Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
–
George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
–
Charles Gonthier, 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
edit
Duke of Anhalt
–
Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
Duke of Brunswick
–
William, Duke of Brunswick
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
Events
edit
31 March
– last
Anti-Socicalist Law
is passed by the German
Reichstag
.
16 May
–
Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway
, world's first
electric tramway
, starts in Berlin.
25 September
– in
Meckesheim
physician
Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer
performs the first modern
Caesarean section
, the transverse incision technique to minimise bleeding.
27 October
–
German federal election, 1881
Births
edit
1 January
–
Hermann Schmitz
, German industrialist (died
1960
)
4 January
–
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
, German sculptor (died
1919
)
[1]
17 January
–
Karl Scharnagl
, German politician (died
1963
)
16 February
–
Hans Vogel
, German politician (died
1945
)
16 February
–
Hans Meiser
, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (died
1956
)
23 March
–
Hermann Staudinger
, German chemist (died
1965
)
[2]
1 April
–
Wilhelm Sollmann
, German journalist and politician (died
1951
)
3 April
–
Hans Kniep
, German botanist (died
1930
)
19 April
–
Ernst Schneppenhorst
, German politician (died
1945
)
2 May
–
Ernst Legal
, German actor (died
1955
)
18 May
–
Erwin Madelung
, German mathematician (died
1972
)
30 May
–
Georg von Küchler
, German field marshal (died
1968
)
31 May
–
Heinrich Burger
, German figure skater (died
1942
)
9 June
–
Felix von Luckner
, German author, sailor and nobleman (died
1966
)
24 June
–
Heinz Tietjen
, German conductor (died
1967
)
29 June
–
Gottlob Walz
, German diver (died
1943
)
27 July
–
Hans Fischer
, German chemist and
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
1945
)
[3]
28 July
–
Günther Quandt
, German industrialist (died 1954)
8 August
–
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
, German field marshal (died
1954
)
26 August
–
Franz Gürtner
, German jurist and politician (died
1941
)
4 October
–
Walther von Brauchitsch
, German field marshal (died
1948
)
9 October
–
Friedrich Syrup
, German politician (died
1945
)
12 November
–
Ulrich von Hassell
, German diplomat (died
1944
)
12 November
–
Maximilian von Weichs
, German field marshal (died
1954
)
2 December
–
Heinrich Barkhausen
, German physicist (died
1956
)
4 December
–
Erwin von Witzleben
, German officer (died
1944
)
15 December
–
Eugen Bolz
, German politician (died
1945
)
[4]
25 December
–
Christian Hülsmeyer
, German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur (died
1957
)
31 December
–
Max Pechstein
, German painter (died
1955
)
Deaths
edit
7 April
–
Johann Hinrich Wichern
, German religious leader (born
1808
)
15 May
–
Franz von Dingelstedt
, German poet and dramatist (born
1814
)
2 June
–
Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg
, German diplomat (born
1815
)
23 June
–
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
, German botanist (born
1804
)
10 July
–
Georg Hermann Nicolai
, German architect (born
1812
)
11 October
–
Friedrich Hitzig
, German architect (born
1811
)
[5]
References
edit
^
"Wilhelm Lehmbruck".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Retrieved
27 February
2024
.
^
"Hermann Staudinger".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Retrieved
27 February
2024
.
^
"Hans Fischer".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Retrieved
27 February
2024
.
^
"Eugen Bolz" (in German).
German Resistance Memorial Center
. Retrieved
27 February
2024
.
^
"Friedrich Hitzig" (in German).
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
. Retrieved
27 February
2024
.