1915 in Germany

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Events in the year 1915 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser - Wilhelm II
• Chancellor - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria - Ludwig III of Bavaria
• King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
• King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden - Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse - Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Adolphus Frederick VI
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe - Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Principality of Lippe - Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line - Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont - Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt - Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg - Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen - Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) — Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Albert Heinrich Schnee
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Seitz to 15 July

Events

• 9 July — German forces in German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) capitulate and the territory is occupied by South Africa.
• German geophysicist Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent.
• Date unknown - German paleontologist Ernst Stromer published an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

Births

• 22 January - Heinrich Albertz, German politician (died 1993)
• 27 January - Ernst Schröder, German actor (died 1994)
• 14 February - Georg Thomalla, German actor (died 1999)
• 21 February - Roland von Hößlin, German officer (died 1944)
• 6 March - Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German officer (died 1944)
• 7 March - Johannes Wiese, German pilot during World War II, a fighter ace (died 1991)
• 11 March - Karl Krolow, German poet (died 1991)
• 12 March - Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots (died [1994]])
• 13 April — Max Jammer, German-born Israeli physicist (died 2010)
• 13 April - Stephan Hermlin, German poet (died 1997)
• 16 June - Marga Faulstich, German chemist (died 1998)
• 25 August -Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht (died 1944)
• 26 August - Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat (died 2002)
• 28 August - Paul Schneider-Esleben, German architect (died 2005)
• 5 September - Horst Sindermann, German politician (died 1990)
• 6 September - Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (died 1988)
• 15 September - Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (died 1996)
• 9 October — Henner Henkel, German tennis champion (died 1942)
• 13 December — Curd Jürgens, German actor (died 1982)

Deaths

• January 4 - Anton von Werner, German painter (born 1843)
• April 9 - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (born 1852)
• May 2 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870)
• May 10 - Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (born 1856)
• May 15 - Oskar Frenzel, German painter (born 1855)
• June 20 - Emil Rathenau, German entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1838)
• July 9 - Carl Walther, German gunsmith (born 1858)
• July 15 - Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (born 1844)
• August 4 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (born 1846)
• August 20 - Paul Ehrlich, German physician and scientist (born 1854)
• September 1 - August Stramm, German playwright and poet (born 1874), died in Russia
• September 19 - David Friedrich Weinland, German zoologist and novelist. (born 1829)
• September 27 - Kaspar von Zumbusch, German sculptor (born 1830)
• October 15 - Theodor Boveri, German biologist (born 1862)
• December 4 - Gustav Hollaender, German violonist, composer and conductor (born 1855)
• December 19 - Alois Alzheimer , German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)

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