Events in the year 1889 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Colonial Governors
Events
Undated
Births
- 8 January â Paul Hartmann, German actor (died 1977)
- 22 January â Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, professor of art and typographer (died 1955)
- 1 February â Rudolf Bauer, German-American painter (died 1953)
- 8 February â Siegfried Kracauer, German author, journalist, sociologist and (died 1966)
- 3 March â Carl Vincent Krogmann, German banker and politician (died 1978)
- 19 April â Otto Georg Thierack, German politician and jurist (died 1946)
- 20 April â Adolf Hitler, German Führer and politician (died 1945)
- 12 May â Otto Frank, German businessman (died 1980)
- 23 May â Erich Engels, German screenwriter, producer and film director (died 1971)
- 25 May â Günther Lütjens, German general (died 1941)
- 11 June â Otto Dessloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1977)
- 8 July â Hans Felber, German infantry general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1962)
- 20 July â Erich Pommer, German film producer and executive (died 1966)
- 27 July â Hans von Opel, German industrialist (died 1948)
- 29 July â Ernst Reuter, German politician (died 1953)
- 21 September â Annemarie Steinsieck, German actress (died 1977)
- 26 September â Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)
- 3 October â Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (died 1938)
- 7 October:
- Erich Büttner, German painter (died 1936)
- Hans Tropsch, German chemist (died 1935)
- 16 October â Reinhold Maier, German politician (died 1971)
- November 1 â Hannah Höch, German artist (died 1978)
- 29 November â Margarete Haagen, German actress (died 1966)
- 30 November â Hans Bischoff â German entomologist (died 1960)
- 24 December â Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt, World War I German flying ace (died 1962)
Deaths
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