1901 in Germany
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Events in the year 1901 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 - Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest
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 - Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen - Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) - Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) - Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann (acting) to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) - Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) - Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) - Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) - Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland - August Köhler
Births
January
- 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
- 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
March
- 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German-born Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
May
- 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
- 27 May - Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
October
- 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, athlete and sports official (died 1997)
- October 15 Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994)
December
- 5 December - Werner Heisenberg, German phsyicist (died 1976)
- 27 December - Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
- Date unknown – Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period (died 1945)
Deaths
- 5 January - Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818).
- 27 January - Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
References
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