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1902 in Germany 
Summary
Events in the year 1902 in Germany.
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Incumbents edit
National level edit
State level edit
Kingdoms edit
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert to 19 June, then George
- 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 IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest
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 – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then 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 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 – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial governors edit
- Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term) to 3 February, then … Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland – August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn
Events edit
- December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Births edit
- 6 January – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (died 1994)[3]
- 17 January – Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (died 1986)[4]
- 30 January – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian (died 1983)
- 1 February – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (d. 1948)
- 5 February – Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
- 7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)[5]
- 18 March – Siegfried Westphal, German general (died 1982)
- 21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
- 2 April – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)[6]
- 2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
- 13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)[7]
- 10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
- 12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
- 22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003)
- 5 September – Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944)
- 21 October – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990)
- 1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)[8]
- 4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)[9]
- 22 November – Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989)
- 21 December – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944)
Deaths edit
- 7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, writer (born 1835)
- March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (born 1821)
- April 5 - Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)
- April 19
- Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (born 1846)
- Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (born 1850)
- 19 June – Albert, King of Saxony, (born 1828)
- 5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (born 1821)
- 26 September – Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. (born 1829)
- 7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (born 1832)
- 25 November – Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic (born 1841)
References edit
- ^ "William II | emperor of Germany | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR". West Gippsland Gazette. No. 197. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1902. p. 4 (MORNING.). Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, "Helmut Poppendick Affidavit, 14 January 1947", Harvard Law School Library Item No. 849. Archived 25 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Archives (2001). The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force: 1933-1945. London: Public Record Office. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-903365-30-4.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 149.
- ^ Tschichold, Jan (1982). Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9780902220539.
- ^ Laporte, Leo (2005). Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac. Indianapolis, Ind: Que. p. 263. ISBN 9780789733191.
- ^ Sandford, John (1999). Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. London New York: Routledge. p. 323. ISBN 9781136816031.
- ^ Who's who in Technology. Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien. 1984. p. 154.