1898 in Germany
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Events in the year 1898 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
- 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 — Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — Charles Alexander
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
- 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 — Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — Jesko von Puttkamer (5th term) to 12 January, then Theodor Seitz (2nd term) to 13 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (6th term) from 14 October
- Kiautschou — Carl Rosendahl from 7 March
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Eduard von Liebert
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Hugo Skopnik (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute to 18 April, then governor)
- Togoland — August Köhler (Landeshauptleute to 18 April, then governor)
Events
- April 25 – In Essen, German company Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk RWE is founded.
- June 16 - German federal election, 1898
- October 3–8 - The Stuttgart Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany is held in Stuttgart.
- Date unknown - Emil Fischer synthesizes purine.
- Date unknown - Richard Willstätter analyzes the structure of the cocaine molecule in a synthesis derived from tropinone.
- Date unknown - Polycarbonates were first discovered in 1898 by German chemist Alfred Einhorn.
- Date unknown - Polyethylene was first synthesized by the German chemist Hans von Pechmann.
Births
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- February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German author, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
- March 4 - Hans Krebs, German general (died 1945)
- March 6 - Therese Giehse, German actress (died 1975)
- March 26 - Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma (died 1974)
- March 26 - Paul Schmidt, German engineer (died 1976)
- May 5 - Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, German actor (died 1958)
- June 4 — Aryeh Leo Olitzki, German-born Israeli bacteriologist (died 1983)
- June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (died 1970)
- June 23 — Karl Weinbacher, German manager and war criminal (died 1946)
- June 26- Willy Messerschmidt. German aircraft designer and manufacturer (died 1978)
- July 18 - August von Finck Sr., German banker (died 1980)
- August 11 - Wolfgang Zenker, German officer (died 1918)
- September 14 - Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay, German World War I ace fighter (died 1918)
- September 30 - Hans Wölpert, German weightlifter (died 1957)
- October 3 - Adolf Reichwein, German educator and economist (died 1944)
- October 12 - Hans Georg Klamroth, German resistance fighter (died 1944)
- November 26 - Karl Ziegler German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1973)
- December 3 - Fritz Steuben, German author (died 1981)
- December 10 - Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, German general (died 1945)
Deaths
- May 11 - Georg Ignaz Komp, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1828)
- June 25 - Ferdinand Cohn, German biologist (born 1828)
- July 30 - Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
- September 20 - Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet (born 1819)
- September 25 - Hieronymous Theodor Richter, German chemist (born 1824)
- October 6 - Wilhelm Emil Fein, German inventor (born 1842)
References