1916 in Germany

Events in the year 1916 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Emperor – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig III
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
• King of Württemberg – William II

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick VI
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee

Events

• 4 March – Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces.
• August - the Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz begins
• 28 September - the 1916 Berlin strike begins
• 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.

Births

• 23 January – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (died 1961)
• 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, German electrical engineer (died 1981)
• 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000)
• 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died 1943)
• 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
• 7 September – Käthe Menzel-Jordan, German architect and preservationist (died 2026)
• 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)

Deaths

• 12 February – Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
• 4 March – Franz Marc, painter (born 1880)
• 11 May:
• Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
• Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
• 13 July – Josef Rieder (cyclist)
• 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848).
• 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884
• 4 December – Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892
• 5 December - Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, grandmother of Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1822 in the United Kingdom)
• 19 December – Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)

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