1890 in Germany

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Events in the year 1890 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck to March 20, then Leo von Caprivi

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – Charles I of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
• 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

• Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt to 12 March, then Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, 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

• 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

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term) to (17 April), then Markus Graf Pfeil, to 3 August, then Kurz (acting governor) to December 2, then Jesko von Puttkamer (acting governor) (2nd term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Fritz Rose (acting commissioner to 30 September, then commissioner)
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner) to August, then Louis Nels (acting commissioner)
• Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
• Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident) to 1 July

Events

• 5 February – German company Allianz is founded in Berlin.
• 20 February – German federal election, 1890
• 20 March – Bismarck cabinet ends.
• 1 July – Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland (part of modern-day Kenya) and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the United Kingdom vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The United Kingdom cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.
• August – Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Alexander III of Russia meet at Narva.

Date unknown

• German company Mannesmann is founded in Düsseldorf.
• Emil von Behring publishes an article with Kitasato Shibasaburo reporting that they have developed "antitoxins" against both diphtheria and tetanus.

Births

• 9 January – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer (died 1935)
• 30 January – Albert Zürner, German diver (died 1920)
• 6 February – Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (died 1956)
• 20 February – Georg Thomas, German general (died 1946)
• 5 March – Wilhelm Boden, German politician (died 1961)
• 22 March – Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician (died 1945)
• 22 April – Erwin Jaenecke, German general (died 1960)
• 10 May – Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946)
• 15 June – Wilhelm Leuschner, German politician (died 1944)
• 25 June – Hans Marchwitza, German writer and poet (died 1965)
• 4 July – Otto Feick, German gymnast (died 1959)
• 8 July – Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright (died 1940)
• 29 July – Elisabeth von Thadden, German educator and resistance fighter (died 1944)
• 30 July – Ludwig Schwamb, German politician (died 1945)
• 3 August – Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1972)
• 4 August – Erich Weinert, German author (died 1953)
• 14 August – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war criminal (died 1946)
• 18 August – Walther Funk, German banker and economist (died 1960)
• 16 September – Traugott Herr, German general (died 1976)
• 23 September – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshall (died 1957)
• 10 October – Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot (died 1925)
• 2 December – C. Paul Jennewein, German-American sculptor (died 1978)
• 6 December:
  • Hans Bethge, German pilot (died 1918)
  • Carl Jules Weyl, German-American art director and Reichswehr soldier (died 1948)
• 17 December – Prince Joachim of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1920)

Deaths

• 7 January - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German queen (born 1811)
• 20 January – Franz Lachner, German composer and conductor (born 1803)
• 27 January – Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal, German psychiatrist (born 1833)
• 18 March – Johann Georg Halske, German businessman (born 1814)
• 27 March – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist (born 1803)
• 30 April – Hermann von Dechend, German politician who served as the first President of the Reichsbank (born 1814)
• 19 March – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman (born 1838)
• 26 May – Adelbert Delbrück, German banker and businessman (born 1822)
• 27 August - Emil Otto Grundmann, German painter (born 1844)
• 3 September - Johann von Lutz, German politician (born 1826)
• 15 September – Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss, German scientist (born 1812)
• 19 September – Friedrich Gaedcke, German chemist (born 1828)
• 23 September - Lorenz von Stein, German economist and sociologist (born 1815)
• 4 November - Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (born 1820)
• 3 December – Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, German politician (born 1803)
• 26 December - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology (born 1822)