1905 in Germany
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Events in the year 1905 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
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 Leopold, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent, to 25 October, then Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (who was previously regent)
- Reuss Elder Line - Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (regent Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line)
- Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont - Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) - Otto Gleim (acting governor) (1st term) to 31 January, then Jesko von Puttkamer (9th term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) - Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) - Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) - Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) - Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) - Theodor Leutwein to 19 August, then Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (acting governor) to November, then Friedrich von Lindequist
- Togoland - Waldemar Horn to 27 July, then Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen
Events
Date unknown
- Germany insists on an international conference on the Moroccan question.
- German company Knorr-Bremse was founded.
- Albert Einstein publishes his four Annus Mirabilis papers. In particular, he formulates the theory of special relativity and states the law of mass-energy conservation: E = mc². He also explains the photoelectric effect by quantization and mathematically analyzes Brownian motion. Because of this, 1905 is said to be the miraculous year for physics, and its 100th anniversary (2005) was declared the World Year of Physics.
- Date unknown - Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discovered the bacterium that was responsible for syphilis, a spiral-shaped spirochete called Treponema pallidum.
- Date unknown - German Equestrian Federation was founded.
Births
- 20 January - Kurt Waitzmann, German actor (died 1985)
- 3 February - Hermann Henselmann, German architect (died 1995)
- 16 February — Karl Frankenstein, German-born Israeli professor (died 1990)
- 15 March — Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, aristocrat, lawyer and member of July 20 plot (died 1944)
- 15 March - Nikolaus von Halem, German lawyer and businessman (died 1944)
- 16 March - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (died 1977)
- 23 March — Lale Andersen, German singer (died 1972)
- 24 March - Karl John, German actor (died 1977)
- 25 March - Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German Army colonel and a resistance fighter (died 1944)
- 27 March - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; (died 1980)
- 8 April — Arnulf Klett, German lawyer and politician (died 1974)
- 3 May - Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1996)
- 6 May — Kurt Schumacher, German sculptor (died 1942)
- 13 May - Theodor Koch, German engineer and weapons manufacturer (died 1976)
- 13 May - Walter Richter, German actor (died 1985)
- 3 July - Max Herz, German businessman (died 1965)
- 2 August - Alexander Golling, German actor (died 1989)
- 15 August - Manfred von Brauchitsch, German racing driver (died 2003)
- 19 September - Theodor Blank, German politician (died 1972)
- 27 September - Ernst Baier, German figure skater (died 2001)
- 1 October - Alfons Goppel, German politician (died 1991)
- 6 October - Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (died 1987)
- 9 November - Erika Mann, German actress and writer (died 1969)
- 10 December - Heinrich Amersdorffer, German painter and printmaker (died 1986)
- 18 December - Hans Bernd von Haeften, German jurist (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 14 — Ernst Abbe, German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer (born 1840)
- January 29 - Hermann Landois, German zoologist (born 1835)
- February 1 - Oswald Achenbach, German painter (born 1827)
- February 9 - Adolph Menzel, German painter (born 1815)
- March 30 — Georg Meissner, German anatomist and physiologist (born 1829)
- April 17 - Karl Gutbrod, German judge (born 1844)
- May 30 - Albert Ellmenreich, German actor (born 1816)
- June 15 - Carl Wernicke, German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1848)
- August 4 - Walther Flemming, German biologist (born 1843)
- November 15 - Max Spohr, German publisher (born 1850)
- November 17 - Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, German nobleman (born 1817)
- October 6 - Ferdinand von Richthofen German geographer and scientist (born 1833)
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