Events in the year 1887 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Colonial Governors
Events
Undated
Births
- 1 January â Wilhelm Canaris, German Imperial admiral and head of the German Abwehr (died 1945)
- 3 January â August Macke, German painter (died 1914)
- 7 January â Thomas Wimmer, German politician (died 1964)
- 29 January â Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1949)
- 6 February â Josef Frings, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died 1978)
- 8 February â Heinrich Spoerl, German author (died 1955)
- 20 March â Walther Kittel, Wehrmacht general (died 1971) in Metz, modern-day France
- 21 March â Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (died 1953)
- 2 April â Louise Schroeder, German politician (died 1957)
- 19 April â Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German nobleman (died 1962)
- 2 June â Gottlieb Hering, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died in 1945)
- 13 June â Bruno Frank, German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (died 1945)
- 20 June â Kurt Schwitters, German artist (died 1958)
- 23 June â Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (died 1960)
- 22 July â Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
- 25 July â Carl Freiherr von Langen, German equestrian (died 1934)
- 8 August â Gertrud Morgner, German politician (died 1978)
- 9 August â Hans Oster, German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who was also a leading figure of the German resistance (died 1945)
- 22 August â Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (died 1977)
- 3 September â Max Brauer, German politician (died 1973)
- 22 September â Hans Schlossberger, German physician (died 1960)
- 23 September â Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (died 1980)
- 10 November â Hans Ehard, German politician (died 1980)
- 11 November â Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (died 1936)
- 24 November â Erich von Manstein, German commander of the Wehrmacht,(died 1973)
- 6 December â Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general (died 1952)
- 28 December â Walter Ruttmann, German director (died 1941)
Deaths
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