1896 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1896 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1896 in Germany.

Incumbents

Events

Model of a DMG Lastwagen, 1896, first gasoline truck

• 12 April - German football club Hannover 96 was founded.
• 1 June - Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung in Berlin opened.
• Gottlieb Daimler produces the first gasoline truck.
• Emperor William Monument in Porta Westfalica is completed.
• German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives Wien approximation.

Births

• 11 January - Heinrich Stuhlfauth, German football player and goalkeeper (died 1966)
• 4 February - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (died 1997)
• 9 February - Erich Vagts, German politician (died 1980)
• 14 February - Werner Richard Heymann, German film composer (died 1961)
• 23 February - Herbert Weichmann, German politician (died 1983)
• 25 February - Ida Noddack, German chemist (died 1978)
• 2 March - Caesar von Hofacker, German colonel (died 1944)
• 22 March - Karl Dannemann, German actor (died 1945)
• 1 April - Wilhelm Sauter, German painter (died 1948)
• 13 May - Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1967)
• 20 May - Paul Kemp, German actor (died 1953)
• 9 June - Karl Sack, German jurist (died 1945)
• 16 July - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German physician (died 1969)
• 23 July - Reinhold Frank, German lawyer (died 1945)
• 19 August - Josef Kammhuber, German general (died 1986)
• 23 August - Hubert von Meyerinck, German actor (died 1971)
• 15 September - Theodor Haubach, German journalist (died 1945)
• 14 October -Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police officer and politician (died 1944)
• 18 October - Friedrich Hollaender, German film composer and author (died 1976)
• 30 October - Roma Bahn, German actress (died 1975)
• 9 November - Hellmut von der Chevallerie, German general (died 1965)
• 28 November - Otto Graf, German actor (died 1977)
• 3 December - Carlo Schmid, German politician (died 1979)
• 18 December - Hans Otto Erdmann, German officer (died 1944)
• 27 December - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1977)
• 31 December - Carl Ludwig Siegel, German mathematician (died 1981)

Deaths

• April 28 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (born 1834)
• May 20 - Clara Schumann, German musician and composer (born 1819)
• June 2 - Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, German geographer, explorer and author (born 1831)
• July 11 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (born 1814)
• July 13 - August Kekulé, German chemist (born 1829)
• August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of aviation (born 1848)
• August 13 - Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, German mathematician (born 1821)
• October 22 - Christian Roos, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1826)
• November 3 - Eugen Baumann, German chemist (born 1846)
• November 19 - Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician (born 1837)
• December 17 - Paul Carl Beiersdorf, German pharmacist (born 1836)

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