1902 in Germany
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Events in the year 1902 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony - Albert of Saxony to 19 June, then George of Saxony
- King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe - George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe - Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
- Reuss Elder Line - Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont - Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) - Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term) to 3 February, then … Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) - Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) - Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) - Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) - Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) - Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland - August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn
Events
- December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
- Date unknown: Ostwald process developed and patented by German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald
- Date unknown: Hermann Emil Fischer and Joseph von Mering discover that barbitone (barbital or Veronal) is an effective hypnotic agent. It becomes the first commercially marketed barbiturate, being used as a treatment for insomnia from 1903.
Births
- 5 February - Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
- 5 February - Hilde Benjamin, German judge and politician (died 1989)
- 7 March - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)
- 21 March - Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
- 22 March - Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, German nobleman (died 1945)
- 3 April - Reinhard Gehlen, German general and intelligent officer (died 1979)
- 23 May - Mark Lothar, German composer (died 1985)
- 2 August - Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
- 13 August - Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)
- 10 July - Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
- 12 August - Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
- 19 August - Burkhart Waldecker, German explorer (died 1964)
- 22 August - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003)
- 5 September - Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944)
- 19 September - Max Nosseck, German film director (died 1972)
- 30 September - Siegmund George Warburg, German-British banker (died 1982)
- 21 October - Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990)
- 1 November - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)
- 4 November - Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)
- 22 November - Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989)
- 21 December - Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 7 — Wilhelm Hertz, German writer (born 1835)
- February 1 - Emil Hünten, German painter (born 1827)
- March 11 - Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (born 1821)
- April 19
- Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (born 1846)
- Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (born 1850)
- 19 June — Albert, King of Saxony, (born 1828)
- 7 August - Rudolf von Bennigsen, German politician (born 1824)
- 27 August - Bruno Hassenstein, German cartographer (born 1839)
- 5 September - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (born 1821)
- 7 September - Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (born 1832)
- 17 November - Leonard Landois, German physiologist (born 1837)
- 22 November - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German steel manufacturer (born 1854)
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