Events in the year 1917 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Colonial Governor
Events
Undated
Births
- 5 January â Wieland Wagner, German opera director (died 1966)
- 22 January â Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German politician. (died 2010)
- 18 February â Gertraud Winkelvoss, German neo-Nazi politician (died 1981)
- 24 March â Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization (died 1984)
- 9 April â Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer (died 1965)
- 16 May â Ulrich Matschoss, German actor (died 2013)
- 2 June â Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker (died 2006)
- 29 July â Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (died 2013)
- 6 September â Philipp von Boeselager, German resistance fighter (died 2008)
- 12 September â Jürgen Seydel, German karateka (died 2008)
- 15 December
- Karl-Günther von Hase, German diplomat and journalist (died 2021)
- Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (died 2019)
- 21 December â Heinrich Böll, German writer (died 1985)
- 23 December â Armin Zimmermann, German admiral (died 1976)
Deaths
- 23 January â Jesko von Puttkamer, German nobleman and colonial military chief (born 1855)
- 16 February â August Rauber, German anatomist (born 1841)
- 8 March â Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer (born 1838)
- 14 March â Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
- 17 March â Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist, and priest (born 1838)
- 21 March â Alfred Einhorn, German chemist (born 1856)
- 31 March â Emil von Behring, German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1854)
- 6 April:
- Hans Berr, soldier turned World War I flying ace (born 1890)
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893âÂÂ1917), German Prussian King
- 14 April â Hartmuth Baldamus, German World War I flying ace (born 1891)
- 21 April â Bernd von Arnim, German naval officer (born 1885)
- 24 April â Oscar Blumenthal, German playwright (born 1852)
- 17 June â Karl Zilgas, German football player (born 1882)
- 27 June â Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying ace (born 1896)
- 27 June - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (born 1838)
- 3 August - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (born 1849)
- 13 August â Eduard Buchner, German chemist and zymologist (born 1860)
- 15 August â Gustav Körte, German archaeologist (born 1852)
- 16 August â Wilhelm Morgner, German painter (born 1891)
- 20 August â Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist (born 1835)
- 5 September â Walther Schwieger, German U-boat commander of U-20, which sank the Lusitania (born 1885)
- 15 September â Kurt Wolff, German aviator (born 1895)
- 28 September â Kurt Wissemann, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- 25 October:
- Maximilian Bayer, German founder of Scouting in Germany (born 1872)
- Hans Olde, German painter (born 1855)
- 15 November â Hans Ritter von Adam, German flying ace in World War I (born 1886)
- 20 November â Ludwig Sütterlin, German graphic artist (born 1865)
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