1901 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1901; List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1901 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser - Wilhelm II
Chancellor - Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria
King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
King of Saxony - Albert of Saxony
King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) - Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term)
Kiaochow (Kiautschou) - Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann (acting) to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) - Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) - Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl (acting governor) (2nd term)
German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) - Wilhelm Solf
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) - Theodor Leutwein
Togoland - August Köhler

Events

July 10 - The world's first passenger-carrying trolleybus in regular service operates on the Biela Valley Trolleybus route at Königstein in Germany, pioneering Max Schiemann's under-running trolley current collection system.
September 25 – Establishment of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, the world's first history of science society.
Date unknown: Auguste Deter was first case diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease by Alois Alzheimer.
Date unknown : Georg Kelling of Dresden performs the first "coelioscopy" (laparoscopic surgery), on a dog.

Births

5 January - Klaus Bonhoeffer, German jurist (died 1945)
7 January - Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, German politician (died 1986)
8 January - Gustav Dahrendorf, German politician (died 1954)
10 January — Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator (died 1944)
12 January — Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died 1945)
19 January — Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985)
27 January - Willy Fritsch, German actor (died 1973)
30 January - Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (died 1959)
30 January - Hans Erich Nossack, Geman writer (died 1977)
31 January - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer (died 1974)
9 March - Günther Birkenfeld, German writer (died 1966)
9 March - Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German politician (died 1949)
19 March - Josef Wirmer, German jurist (died 1944)
25 March — Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970)
14 April - Martin Kessel, German writer (died 1990)
17 May - Werner Egk, German composer (died 1983)
18 May - Robert Ochsenfeld, German physicist (died 1993)
21 May — Manfred Aschner, German—Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989)
27 May — Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976)
27 May - Joseph Wendel, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1960)
6 June - Hellmuth Stieff, German general (died 1944)
23 June - Paul Verhoeven, German film- and theare director and writer (died 1975)
8 October — Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997)
October 15 Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (died 1994)
17 November - Walter Hallstein, German diplomat and politician (died 1982)
5 December — Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976)
6 December - Carl Langbehn, German lawyer (died 1944)
27 December — Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992)
Date unknown — Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945)

Deaths

5 January - Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818).
27 January - Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou)
10 February - Max Joseph von Pettenkofer. German chemist and hygienist (born 1818)
4 July - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (born 1843)
6 July - Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819)
21 August - Adolf Eugen Fick, German physician (born 1829)
22 November - Paul von Hatzfeldt, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)

References

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Years in Germany (1870–present)
19th century	Pre-1870 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

1901 in Europe
Sovereign states	Andorra Austria-Hungary Baden Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Portugal Prussia Romania Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta