1895 in Germany

← 1894 1893 1892 1895 in Germany → 1896 1897 1898
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1895 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1895 in Germany.

Incumbents

Events

First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand

• 5 May - German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf was founded.
• 8 November - Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
• 15 December - German football club Eintracht Braunschweig was founded.
• Date unknown - Carl von Linde filed for patent of the Linde cycle.
• Date unknown - Hermann Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier first describe Fischer–Speier esterification.
• Date unknown - Wilhelm Emil Fein invented the electrically-driven hand drill.

Births

• January 20 — Walter Bock, German chemist (died 1948)
• February 14 — Max Horkheimer German philosopher and sociologist (died 1973)
• February 15 — Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (died 1945)
• March 7 — Werner Schrader, German officer (died 1944)
• March 29 — Ernst Jünger, German author (died 1998)
• April 7 — Margarete Schön, German actress (died 1985)
• April 7 — Theodor Strünck, German lawyer (died 1945)
• June 15 — Paul Giesler, German politician (died 1945)
• July 6 — Ernst Langlotz, German archaeologist (died 1978)
• July 10 — Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
• August 9 — Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (died 1980)
• August 13 — Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (died 1986)
• August 26 — Harald Paulsen, German actor (died 1954)
• August 31 — Karl Fiehler, German politician (died 1969)
• September 6 — Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program (died 1980)
• September 15 — Hildebrand Gurlitt, art dealer (died 1956)
• September 25 — Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (died 1944)
• October 5 —Ludwig Gehre, German officer (died 1945)
• October 10 — Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (died 1945)
• October 13 — Kurt Schumacher, German politician (died 1952)
• October 26 — Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician (died 1981)
• October 30 — Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist (died 1964)

• November 16 — Paul Hindemith, German composer and conductor (died 1963)
• November 23 — Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge (died 1961)
• December 2 — Erwin Casmir, fencer (died 1982)
• December 29 — Oswald Freisler, lawyer (died 1939)

Deaths

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