1884 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1884; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events in the year 1884 in Germany.

Incumbents

Cameroon (Kamerun) from 14 July — Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 19 July, then Maximilian Buchner (acting commissioner)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) from 24 April — Adolf Lüderitz (magistrate) to 7 October, then Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner)
Togoland from 5 July — Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 6 July October, then Heinrich Randad (provisional consul)

24 April — Territory in South West Africa placed under German protection, becoming the first German colonial possession.
5 July — German protectorate first declared over part of Togoland.
14 July — Commencement of German administration in Cameroon (Kamerun).
15 November — The Berlin Conference which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).

31 January — Theodor Heuss, German politician and publicist (died 1963)
12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter and graphic artist (died 1950)
26 March — Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died 1969)
12 April — Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Jewish-German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1951, United States)
14 May — Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (died 1969)
7 July - Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist and playwright (died 1958)
28 August - Christian Stock, German politician (died 1967)
24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (died 1953)
11 October — Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949, Argentina)
1 December — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (died 1976)