1902 in Germany
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See also: | Other events of 1902 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
Events in the year 1902 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony to 19 June, then George of Saxony
- King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Date unknown
- The Ostwald process is developed and patented by German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald
- Hermann Emil Fischer and Joseph von Mering discover that barbitone (barbital or Veronal) is an effective hypnotic agent. It becomes the first commercially marketed barbiturate, being used as a treatment for insomnia from 1903.
Births
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- 5 February:
- Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
- Hilde Benjamin, German judge and politician (died 1989)
- 7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)
- 21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
- 22 March – Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, German nobleman (died 1945)
- 3 April – Reinhard Gehlen, German general and intelligence officer (died 1979)
- 6 May - Max Ophüls, German film director (died 1957)
- 23 May – Mark Lothar, German composer (died 1985)
- 2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
- 13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)
- 10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
- 12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
- 19 August – Burkhart Waldecker, German explorer (died 1964)
- 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)
- 19 September – Max Nosseck, German film director (died 1972)
- 30 September – Siegmund George Warburg, German-British banker (died 1982)
- 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)
- 4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)
- 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
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- 7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, German writer (born 1835)
- 1 February – Emil Hünten, German painter (born 1827)
- 24 February - August Eisenlohr, German egyptologist (born 1832)
- 11 March – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (born 1821)
- 19 April
- 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)
- 29 July - Joseph Kürschner, German editor and publisher (born 1853)
- 7 August – Rudolf von Bennigsen, German politician (born 1824)
- 27 August – Bruno Hassenstein, German cartographer (born 1839)
- 5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (born 1821)
- 7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (born 1832)
- 22 October - Wilhelm Böckmann, German architect (born 1832)
- 17 November – Leonard Landois, German physiologist (born 1837)
- 22 November – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German steel manufacturer (born 1854)