1886 in Germany
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Events in the year 1886 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria — Ludwig II of Bavaria to 13 June, then Otto 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
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Karl Peters (administrator)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner); also from 10 June Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
- Togoland — Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner)
- Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)
Events
- February 6 - German chemist Clemens Winkler discovered chemical element Germanium.
- November 15 - Robert Bosch GmbH was founded.
- Date unknown: German Friedrich Soennecken invented ring binders in 1886 in Bonn.
- November 14 - Friedrich Soennecken filed his patent for his holepunch Papierlocher für Sammelmappen.
- Date unknown - Neuschwanstein Castle is completed.
Births
- Date unknown — Otto Wunderlich, German landscape photographer (died in 1975)
- 2 January - Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel German general (died 1944)
- 25 January - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (died 1954)
- 6 March - Fritz Goerdeler, German jurist (died 1945)
- 10 March - Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (died 1950)
- 18 March — Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German Imperial Naval submarine captain in World War I and Kriegsmarine Rear admiral (died 1941)
- 27 March — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (died 1969)
- 16 April - Ernst Thälmann, German politician (died 1944)
- 1 May - Walter Cramer, German businessman (died 1944)
- 2 May - Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (died 1956)
- 3 May - Kurt von Briesen, German general (died 1941)
- 5 June - Kurt Hahn, German educator (died 1974)
- 7 August - Paul Westheim, German art historian and publisher (died 1963)
- 15 August - Karl Korsch, German politician (died 1961)
- 19 August - Robert Heger, German conductor (died 1878)
- 20 August - Paul Tillich, Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian (died 1965)
- 25 August - Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (died 1954)
- 14 September - Erich Hoepner, German general (died 1944)
- 20 September - Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (died 1954)
- 4 October - Erich Fellgiebel, German general (died 1944)
- 7 October - Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (died 1950)
- 15 October- Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German colonel (died 1944)
- 26 October - Hanns Braun, German athlete (died 2018)
- 6 November — Gus Kahn, German-American songwriter (died 1941)
- 7 November - Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (died 1954)
- 28 November - Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (died 1954)
- 25 December - Gotthard Heinrici, German general (died 1971)
Deaths
- 9 April - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (born 1826)
- 23 May - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (born 1795)
- 13 June — Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (born 1845)
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