1888 in Germany

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Decades:

1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser — William I to 9 March, then Frederick III to 15 June, then Wilhelm II
Chancellor — Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
King of Prussia — William I to 9 March, then Frederick III to 15 June, then Wilhelm II (all Kaisers of the German Empire)
King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony
King of Württemberg — Charles I of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) — Eugen von Zimmerer (1st term) to 17 January, then Julius Freiherr von Soden (2nd term)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Karl Peters (administrator) to 8 February, then Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz to 1 March, then Reinhold Kraetke (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
Togoland — Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (1st term) to 17 October, then Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Events

9 March — Emperor Wilhelm I dies at the age of 90 in Berlin. He is succeeded by his oldest son Friedrich Wilhelm, who becomes Friedrich III.
16 April — The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru
15 June — Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor after the death of his father, Friedrich III.
13 December — Heinrich Hertz presents his report on the discovery of electromagnetic radiation to the Berlin Academy of Sciences

Literature

'Theses on Feuerbach' by Karl Marx published posthumously

Music

Johannes Brahms — Violin Sonata in D Minor (opus 108)
Max Reger — String Quartet in D minor (with double bass obbligato; without op.) (1888-9)
Joseph Rheinberger — Organ Sonata No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 154
Richard Strauss
- Don Juan, Macbeth (first version)
Carl Maria von Weber's opera Die drei Pintos completed posthumously by Theodor Hell

Sport

Establishment of association football clubs BFC Germania, TGM SV Jügesheim and KBC Duisburg

Miscellaneous

First buildings of the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil opened

Births

14 January — Karl Badberger, architect
17 February — Otto Stern, German Nobel laureate in Physics, expatriate in United States (died 1969, United States)
27 February — Lotte Lehmann, German soprano, expatriate in United States (died 1976, United States)
14 March — Peretz Naftali, German-born Israeli politician (died 1961, Israel)
14 March — Hermann Reinecke, Wehrmacht general (died 1973)
19 March — Josef Albers, German-born American artist (died 1976, United States)
17 April — Herms Niel, German composer (died 1954, West Germany)
24 July — Hermann von Bönninghausen, athlete (died 1919)
20 December — Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (died 1980, Israel)

Deaths

9 March — William I, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (born 1797)
5 April — Eduard Karl August Riehm, theologian (born 1830)
16 April - Friedrich Grillo, industrialist (born 1825)
15 June — Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (born 1831)
20 June — Karl Friedrich August Kahnis, theologian (born 1814)
20 July - Paul Langerhans German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (born 1847)
23 July — Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, theologian (born 1818)
24 August - Rudolf Clausius, physicist and mathematician (born 1822)
28 August — Georg Beseler, politician and jurist (born 1809)
12 September — August von Werder, general (born 1808)
3 December - Carl Zeiss, entrepreneur and scientist (born 1816)

Years in Germany (1871–present)

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