1887 in Germany
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Events in the year 1887 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria — 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) to 13 May, then Jesko von Puttkamer (1st term) to 4 October, then Eugen von Zimmerer (1st term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Karl Peters (administrator)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner) to January; also 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) to May, then from July Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (1st term)
- Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)
Events
- 21 February - German federal election, 1887
- 18 June - Reinsurance Treaty in Berlin
- 29 September - Footballclub Hamburger SV was founded.
- Date unknown - The Petri dish was created by German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri.
- Date unknown - Heinrich Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic waves in radio, an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
- Date unknown - Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
- Date unknown - Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt was founded.
- Date unknown - In 1887, Friedrich Loeffler created Löffler's serum, a coagulated blood serum used for the detection of the bacteria.
Births
- 1 January — Wilhelm Canaris, German Imperial admiral and head of the German Abwehr (died 1945)
- 3 January — August Macke, German painter (died 1914)
- 7 January - Thomas Wimmer, German politician (died 1964)
- 29 January - Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1949)
- 6 February - Josef Frings, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1978)
- 8 February - Heinrich Spoerl, German author (died 1955)
- 20 March — Walther Kittel, Wehrmacht general (died 1971) in Metz, modern-day France
- 21 March - Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (died 1953)
- 19 April -Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German nobleman (died 1962)
- 2 June — Gottlieb Hering, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died in 1945)
- 13 June — Bruno Frank, German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (died 1945)
- 20 June - Kurt Schwitters, German artist (died 1958)
- 22 July - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
- 25 July - Carl Freiherr von Langen, German equestrian (died 1934)
- 9 August- Hans Oster, German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who was also a leading figure of the German resistance (died 1945)
- 22 August - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (died 1977
- 3 September - Max Brauer, German politician (died 1973)
- 22 September - Hans Schlossberger, German physician (died 1960)
- 23 September - Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (died 1980)
- 10 November - Hans Ehard, German politician (died 1980)
- 24 November - Erich von Manstein, German commander of the Wehrmacht,(died 1973)
- 6 December - Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general (died 1952)
- 28 December — Walter Ruttmann, German director (died 1941)
Deaths
- 17 July - Walther Otto Müller, German botanist (born 1833)
- 14 August - Adolf Pansch, German anatomist (born 1841)
- 29 September - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (born 1819)
- 17 October — Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born 1824)
References
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