Events in the year 1912 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Colonial Governors
Events
Undated
Births
- 16 January â Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986)
- 21 January â Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000)
- 1 February â Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977)
- 5 February â Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
- 18 February â Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992)
- 24 February â Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006)
- 3 March â Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999)
- 4 March â Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died 1996)
- 6 March â Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997)
- 13 March â Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004)
- 22 March â Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000)
- 23 March â Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
- 29 March â Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979)
- 31 March â Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989)
- 29 April â Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
- 2 May:
- Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985)
- Karl Adam, German rowing coach (died 1976)
- 9 May â Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010)
- 1 June â Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012)
- 5 June â Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
- 11 June - Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist (died 1996)
- 21 June â Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944)
- 28 June â Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007)
- 30 June â Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003)
- 9 July
- Willi Stadel, German gymnast (died [1999)
- Albrecht Obermaier, German naval officer (died 2004)
- 28 July â Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988)
- 3 August:
- Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
- Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (died 1988)
- 14 August â Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
- 31 August â Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941)
- 2 September â Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017)
- 19 September â Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011)
- 14 October â Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940)
- 1 November â Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer (died 2013)
- 28 November â Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992)
- 29 November â Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944)
- Date unknown
- Hans Metzger, former German diplomat
- Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (died 1994)
Deaths
- 8 January â Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
- 5 February â Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831)
- 8 February â Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
- 5 March â Rochus von Liliencron, German germanist and historian (born 1820)
- 12 March â Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Dönitz, German physician, anatomist, zoologist and entomologist (born 1838)
- 30 March â Karl May, German writer (born 1842)
- 30 July â Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843)
- 10 August â Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841)
- 24 September â Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842)
- 10 October â Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888)
- 27 October â Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)
- 22 November â Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846)
- 28 November â Otto Brahm, German drama and literary critic (born 1856)
- 23 December â Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
- 30 December â Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)
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