1901 in Germany

The following is a list of events from the year 1901 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Emperor – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

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 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

Events

• 23 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom.
• 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen.
• 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.
• 25 November – Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.

Date unknown

• Oscar Troplowitz invents the medical plaster patch called "Leukoplast" for Beiersdorf.

Births

• 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
• 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
• 19 January – Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
• 21 March – Karl Arnold, German politician (died 1958)
• 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German-Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
• 27 March – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (died 1963)
• 17 May – Max Lorenz, German tenor (died 1975)
• 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
• 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
• 7 July – Gustav Knuth, German film actor (died 1987)
• 24 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor (died 1987)
• 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
• 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994)
• 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
• 19 December – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (died 2002)
• 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
• Undated – Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)

Deaths

• 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1818)
• 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
• 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (b. 1818)
• 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
• 5 August – Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II (b. 1840 in the United Kingdom)
• 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (b. 1829)
• 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker (b. 1839)
• 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (b. 1849)
• 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (b. 1839)
• 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (b. 1815)

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