Events in the year 1894 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Kaiser – Wilhelm II
  • Chancellor – Leo von Caprivi to 26 October, then from 29 October Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

State level

Kingdoms

  • King of Bavaria – Otto
  • King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
  • King of Saxony – Albert
  • King of Württemberg – William II

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
  • Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
  • 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 – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – 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 – 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) – Leist to 24 February, then Eugen von Zimmerer (4th and final term) to 31 December, then Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term)
  • German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele
  • German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gerog Schmiele (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
  • German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Curt von François (Landeshauptleute) to 15 March, then Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
  • Togoland – Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term)

Events

  • 1 October – Leipziger Volkszeitung is first published.

Undated

  • The Reichstag building in Berlin is completed and opened.
  • The German company Wintershall is founded.

Births

  • 8 February – Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (died 1971)
  • 26 February – Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (died 1979)
  • 11 March – Otto Grotewohl, German politician (died 1964)
  • 1 April – Eduard Wagner, German general (died 1944)
  • 11 April – Fritz Lindemann, German officer (died 1944)
  • 14 April – Fritz Thiele, German member of the German resistance who served as the communications chief of the German Army (died 1944)
  • 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
  • 19 May – Heinz Ziegler, German general (died 1972)
  • 30 July – Gerda Müller, German actress (died 1951)
  • 17 August – Otto Suhr, German politician (died 1957)
  • 19 August – Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest (died 1944)
  • 20 August – Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (died 1950)
  • 6 September – Carl Grossberg, German painter (died 1940)
  • 12 September – Friedrich Ebert Jr., German politician (died 1979)
  • 15 September – Herbert Windt, German composer (died 1965)
  • 14 October – Heinrich Lübke, German politician (died 1972)
  • 2 November – Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer, pioneer of aerodynamics (died 1976)
  • 19 November – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (died 1971)
  • 17 December – Hans Henny Jahnn, German playwright and novelist (died 1959)
  • 19 December – Paul Dessau, German conductor and composer (died 1979)
  • 21 December – Gustav Ehrhart, German chemist (died 1971)

Deaths

  • 1 January – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (born 1857)
  • 11 January:
    • Wilhelm von Freeden, German mathematician (born 1822)
    • Joseph Weyland, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1826)
  • 12 February – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer (born 1830)
  • 20 February – Georg Albert Lücke, German surgeon (born 1829)
  • 11 April – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (born 1832)
  • 21 May – August Kundt, German physicist (born 1839)
  • 8 September – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (born 1821)
  • 17 October – Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (born 1820)

References


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