1884 in Germany
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Events in the year 1884 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria — Ludwig II of Bavaria
- King of Prussia — Kaiser William I
- King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony
- King of Württemberg — Charles I of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe — Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen — Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe — Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont — George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt — Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick — William, Duke of Brunswick to 18 October, then Duchy claimed by Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who was excluded and a temporary council of regency was established.
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) from 14 July — Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 19 July, then Maximilian Buchner (acting commissioner)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) from 24 April — Adolf Lüderitz (magistrate) to 7 October, then Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner)
- Togoland from 5 July — Gustav Nachtigal (commissioner) to 6 July October, then Heinrich Randad (provisional consul)
Events
- 24 April — Territory in South West Africa placed under German protection, becoming the first German colonial possession.
- 9 June - The construction of the Reichstag building in Berlin started.
- 5 July — German protectorate first declared over part of Togoland.
- 14 July — Commencement of German administration in Cameroon (Kamerun).
- 28 October - German federal election, 1884
- 15 November — The Berlin Conference which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).
- Date unknown: German company Schott was founded.
- Date unknown: Germany got the second part of world's oldest national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Accicential Insurance Bill of 1884.
- Date unknown: Koch's postulatesare four criteria designed to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease. The postulates were formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884.
- Date unknown: Paal-Knorr Synthesis was initially reported independently by German chemists Carl Paal and Ludwig Knorr as a method for the preparation of furans
- Date unknown: In 1884 in Bombay state of India, Robert Koch resided and researched at Grant Medical College, where he was able to determine the causative agent of cholera, isolating Vibrio cholerae.
Births
- 31 January — Theodor Heuss, German politician, publicist and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1963)
- 12 February — Max Beckmann, German painter and graphic artist (died 1950)
- 26 March — Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died 1969)
- 12 April — Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (died 1951)
- 14 May — Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (died 1969)
- 10 June - Walther Schreiber, Gemran politician (died 1958)
- 14 June - Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (died 1953)
- 14 June - Hans Müller-Schlösser, German playwright (died 1956)
- 23 June - Werner Krauss, German actor (died 1959)
- 24 June - Prince Heinrich of Bavaria, member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a highly decorated Army officer in the First World War (died 1916)
- 2 July - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neuropathologist (died 1931)
- 7 July - Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist and playwright (died 1958)
- 14 July - Prince Adalbert of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1948)
- 17 July - Walter von Keudell, German politician (died 1973)
- 23 July - Emil Jannings, German actor (died 1950)
- 31 July - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (died 1944)
- 20 August- Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg (died 1976)
- 28 August - Christian Stock, German politician (died 1967)
- 24 September — Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (died 1953)
- 29 September - Wilhelm Bendow, German actor (died 1950)
- 8 October - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (died 1942)
- 10 October - Friedrich von Rabenau, German general and theologian (died 1945)
- 11 October — Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
- 21 October - Claire Waldoff, German singer (died 1957)
- 24 October - Arno Bieberstein , German swimmer (died 1918)
- 1 December — Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (died 1976)
- 2 December - Johannes Popitz, German politician (died 1945)
- 14 December - Erich Ponto, German actor (died 1957)
Deaths
- 17 January- Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (born 1804)
- 25 January — Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor and composer (born 1815)
- 28 January - Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, German astronomer (born 1827)
- 6 April - Emanuel Geibel, German poet and playwright (born 1815)
- 19 June - Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (born 1803)
- 10 July - Karl Richard Lepsius, German archaeologist and linguist (born 1810)
- 1 August - Heinrich Laube, German poet (born 1806)
- 2 September - Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld, German field marshal (born 1796)
- 18 October — William, Duke of Brunswick, German nobleman (born 1806)
- 25 November — Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (born 1818)
- 10 December - Eduard Rüppell, German explorer (born 1794)
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