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1887 in Germany
Summary
Events in the year
1887 in
Germany
.
←
1886
1885
1884
1887
in
Germany
→
1888
1889
1890
Decades:
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
See also:
Other events of 1887
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
–
Otto
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)
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) –
Julius Freiherr von Soden
(1st term)
to 13 May, then
Jesko von Puttkamer
(1st term)
to 4 October, then
Eugen von Zimmerer
(1st term)
German East Africa
(Deutsch-Ostafrika) –
Karl Peters
(administrator)
German New Guinea
(Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gustav von Oertzen
(commissioner)
to January; also Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz
(
Landeshauptleute
of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa
(Deutsch-Südwestafrika) –
Heinrich Ernst Göring
(acting commissioner)
Togoland
– Ernst Falkenthal
(commissioner)
to May, then from July
Jesko von Puttkamer
(acting commissioner)
(1st term)
Wituland
(Deutsch-Witu) –
Gustav Denhardt
(resident)
Events
edit
21 February
–
German federal election, 1887
18 June
–
Reinsurance Treaty
in Berlin
[1]
29 September
– Football club
Hamburger SV
was founded.
Undated
edit
The
Petri dish
is created by German bacteriologist
Julius Richard Petri
.
Heinrich Hertz
discovers the
photoelectric effect
on the production and reception of
electromagnetic waves
in radio, an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
invents the
contact lens
, made of a type of brown glass.
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
is founded.
Friedrich Loeffler
creates
Löffler's serum
, a coagulated blood serum used for the detection of the bacteria.
Births
edit
1 January
–
Wilhelm Canaris
, German
Imperial
admiral and head of the German
Abwehr
(died
1945
)
3 January
–
August Macke
, German painter (died
1914
)
7 January
–
Thomas Wimmer
, German politician (died
1964
)
29 January
–
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
, German nobleman (died
1949
)
6 February
–
Josef Frings
, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died
1978
)
8 February
–
Heinrich Spoerl
, German author (died
1955
)
20 March
–
Walther Kittel
, Wehrmacht general (died
1971
) in
Metz
, modern-day
France
21 March
–
Erich Mendelsohn
, German architect (died
1953
)
2 April
–
Louise Schroeder
, German politician (died
1957
)
19 April
–
Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
, German nobleman (died
1962
)
2 June
–
Gottlieb Hering
, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died in
1945
)
13 June
–
Bruno Frank
, German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (died
1945
)
20 June
–
Kurt Schwitters
, German artist (died
1958
)
23 June
–
Ernst Rowohlt
, German publisher (died
1960
)
22 July
–
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died
1975
)
25 July
–
Carl Freiherr von Langen
, German equestrian (died
1934
)
8 August
–
Gertrud Morgner
, German politician (died
1978
)
9 August
–
Hans Oster
, German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who was also a leading figure of the German resistance (died
1945
)
22 August
–
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
, German politician (died
1977
)
3 September
–
Max Brauer
, German politician (died
1973
)
22 September
–
Hans Schlossberger
, German physician (died
1960
)
23 September
–
Wilhelm Hoegner
, German politician (died
1980
)
10 November
–
Hans Ehard
, German politician (died
1980
)
11 November
–
Walther Wever
, German general, pre-World War II
Luftwaffe
commander (died
1936
)
24 November
–
Erich von Manstein
, German commander of the Wehrmacht,(died
1973
)
6 December
–
Heinrich von Vietinghoff
, German general (died
1952
)
28 December
–
Walter Ruttmann
, German director (died
1941
)
Deaths
edit
17 July
–
Walther Otto Müller
, German botanist (born
1833
)
14 August
–
Adolf Pansch
, German anatomist (born
1841
)
29 September
–
Bernhard von Langenbeck
, German surgeon (born
1819
)
17 October
–
Gustav Kirchhoff
, German physicist (born
1824
)
References
edit
^
"Reinsurance Treaty".
Britannica
. Retrieved
29 February
2024
.