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1885 in Germany
Summary
Events in the year
1885 in
Germany
.
←
1884
1883
1882
1885
in
Germany
→
1886
1887
1888
Decades:
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
See also:
Other events of 1885
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
–
Prince Albert of Prussia
(regent, appointed in 1885)
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
edit
Cameroon
(Kamerun) – Maximilian Buchner
(acting commissioner)
to 1 April, then
Eduard von Knorr
(acting commissioner)
to 4 July, then
Julius Freiherr von Soden
(governor)
(1st term)
German East Africa
(Deutsch-Ostafrika) from 27 May –
Karl Peters
(administrator)
German New Guinea
(Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gustav von Oertzen
(commissioner, appointed in 1885)
German South-West Africa
(Deutsch-Südwestafrika) –
Gustav Nachtigal
(commissioner)
to May 1885, then
Heinrich Ernst Göring
(acting commissioner)
Togoland
– Heinrich Randad
(provisional consul)
to 26 June, then Ernst Falkenthal
(commissioner)
Wituland
(Deutsch-Witu) from 8 April –
Gustav Denhardt
(resident)
Events
edit
17 February
– German government grants an imperial charter to
Carl Peters
for establishment of a protectorate in
East Africa
.
26 February
– The final act of the
Berlin Conference
regulates European colonization and trade in Africa.
26 March
–
Prussian deportations
: the
Prussian
government orders the expulsion of all ethnic
Poles
and
Jews
holding
Russian
citizenship, later extended to include Polish
Austrian
citizens. More than 30,000 people are forced across the border.
3 April
–
Gottlieb Daimler
is granted a German patent for his 1-cylinder
water-cooled
engine
design.
8 April
– The sultan of
Witu
cedes 25 square miles of territory to German brothers
Clemens
and
Gustav Denhardt
, which becomes the first German territory in
Wituland
.
[1]
27 May
– The remainder of the
Wituland
becomes the German
Protectorate
of Wituland (
Deutsch-Witu
).
[1]
Undated
edit
The
Benz Patent Motorwagen
was built in 1885
The
Reitwagen
(riding car), the first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)
Karl Benz
produces the
Benz Patent-Motorwagen
, regarded as the first
automobile
(patented and publicly launched the following year).
[2]
Gottlieb Daimler
and
Wilhelm Maybach
produce the
Daimler Reitwagen
, regarded as the first
motorcycle
.
[3]
[4]
[5]
Births
edit
2 January
–
Anna Hübler
, German pair skater (died
1976
)
17 January
–
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
, German general (died
1968
)
27 January
–
Eduard Künneke
, German composer (died
1953
)
1 February
–
Friedrich Kellner
, German diarist (died
1970
)
7 February
–
Hugo Sperrle
, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (died
1953
)
11 March
–
Hans Leibelt
, German film actor (died
1974
)
7 April
–
Walther Schwieger
, German U-boat commander of
U-20
, which sank the
Lusitania
(died
1917
)
12 April
–
Hermann Hoth
, German general (died
1971
)
18 April
–
Claus Bergen
, German painter (died
1964
)
14 May
–
Otto Klemperer
, German conductor (died
1973
)
21 May
–
Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg
, German-born Albanian noblewoman (died
1936
)
2 June
–
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
, German neuropathologist (died
1964
)
9 June
–
Carl Hoffmann
, German film director (died
1947
)
30 June
–
Heinrich Schomburgk
, German tennis player (died
1965
)
6 July
–
Ernst Busch
, German field marshal (died
1945
)
8 July
–
Ernst Bloch
, German philosopher (died
1977
)
8 July
Hugo Boss
, German fashion designer (died
1948
)
Paul Leni
, German film director (died
1929
)
24 July
–
Paul von Hase
, German soldier (died
1944
)
9 August
–
Hans Lachmann-Mosse
, German publisher (died
1944
)
7 September
Eleonore Baur
, German Nazi, only woman to participate in Munich
Beer Hall Putsch
(died
1981
)
Franz Eichhorst
, German painter (died 1948)
9 September
–
Paul Henckels
, German actor (died
1967
)
14 September
–
Carl de Vogt
, German actor (died
1970
)
1 November
–
Anton Flettner
, German aviation engineer and inventor (died
1961
)
8 November
–
Emil Fahrenkamp
, German architect (died
1966
)
9 November
–
Julius Ebbinghaus
, German philosopher (died
1981
)
24 November
–
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
, German actor (died
1955
)
26 November
–
Heinrich Brüning
, German politician and former
Chancellor of Germany
(died
1970
)
30 November
–
Albert Kesselring
, German Generalfeldmarshal of Luftwaffe (died
1960
)
17 December
–
Theodor Steltzer
, German politician (died
1967
)
25 December
Albert Betz
, German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology (died
1968
)
Angela Zigahl
, German teacher and politician (died
1955
)
|}
Deaths
edit
12 January
–
Prince August of Württemberg
, German nobleman and general in Army of Kingdom Württemberg (born
1813
)
22 February
–
Carl Scheppig
, German architect (born
1803
)
21 March
–
Franz Abt
, German composer and choral conductor (born
1819
)
6 April
–
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein
, Prussian general (born
1797
)
7 April
–
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
, German physiologist and zoologist (born
1804
)
2 June
–
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
, head of the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Hohenzollern from 1869 and Prime Minister of Prussia (born
1811
)
15 June
–
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
, Prussian nobleman (born
1828
)
16 June
–
Wilhelm Camphausen
, German painter (born
1818
)
17 June
–
Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
, German field marshal (born
1809
)
24 August
–
Eduard Riedel
, German architect (born
1813
)
17 September
–
Gustav Becker
, German clockmaker (born
1819
)
23 September
–
Carl Spitzweg
, German painter (born
1808
)
17 November
–
Gustav Seyffarth
, German egyptologist (born
1796
)
6 December
–
Robert Gerwig
, German civil engineer and politician (born
1820
)
9 December
–
Hermann Heinrich Becker
, German politician (born
1820
)
References
edit
^
a
b
German Wituland, a colonial rarity Archived 2004-04-07 at the
Wayback Machine
Afrol News
, retrieved 28 October 2011
^
Benz, Carl Friedrich (1925).
Lebensfahrt eines deutschen erfinders; erinnerungen eines achtzigjahrigen
. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang.
^
Gardiner, Mark (1997).
Classic motorcycles
. MetroBooks. p. 16.
ISBN
1-56799-460-1
.
^
Brown, Roland (2005).
The Ultimate History of Fast Motorcycles
. Bath: Parragon. p. 6.
ISBN
1-4054-5466-0
.
^
Wilson, Hugo (1993).
The Ultimate Motorcycle Book
. Dorling Kindersley. pp. 8–9.
ISBN
1-56458-303-1
.