1912 in Germany
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Events in the year 1912 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe - Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Principality of Lippe - Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line - 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
- Duke of Anhalt - Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg - Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen - Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — .... Hansen (acting governor) to 29 March, then Karl Ebermaier (1st term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) — Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg to 22 April, then Albert Heinrich Schnee
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) — Erich Schultz-Ewerth
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Seitz
- Togoland — Edmund Brückner to 19 June, then Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
Events
- January 12 - German federal election, 1912
- October 17 - Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel
- December 6 - The Nefertiti bust was found at Amarna by the German Oriental Company (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft – DOG), led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt.
- December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.[1]
- Date unknown - German company Fresenius was founded by Eduard Fresenius.
- Date unknown - Alfred Wegener proposes a fully formulated theory of continental drift and gave the supercontinent Pangaea its name.
- Date unknown - Max von Laue suggests using crystal lattices to diffract X-rays.
- Date unknown - Neosalvarsan became available in 1912 and superseded the more toxic and less water-soluble salvarsan as an effective treatment for syphilis.
Births
- January 16 - Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986)
- January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000)
- February 1 - Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977)
- February 5 – Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
- February 18 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992)
- February 24 - Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006)
- March 3 - Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999)
- March 4 - Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died 1996)
- March 6 - Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997)
- March 13 - Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004)
- March 22 - Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000)
- March 23 - Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
- March 31 - Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989)
- April 29 – Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
- May 2 - Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985)
- May 2 - Karl Adam, German rowing coach (died 1976)
- May 9 - Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010)
- June 1 - Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012)
- June 5 - Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
- June 21 - Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944)
- June 28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007)
- June 30 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003)
- July 28 - Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988)
- August 3 - Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017)
- August 14 - Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994)
- August 3 — Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (died 1988)
- August 31 - Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941)
- September 2 - Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017)
- September 19 -Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011)
- October 14 - Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940)
- November 28 - Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992)
- November 29 - Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944)
Deaths
- January 8 – Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
- February 5 – Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831)
- February 8 – Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833)
- March 30 – Karl May, German writer (born 1842)
- May 20 – Prince George William of Hanover (born 1880)
- July 30 – Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843)
- August 10 – Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841)
- September 24 – Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842)
- October 10 – Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888)
- October 27 – Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835)
- November 22 – Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846)
- December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
- December 30 – Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)
References
- ↑ Freudenmann, R. W.; Oxler, F.; Bernschneider-Reif, S. (2006). "The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents" (PDF). Addiction. 101 (9): 1241–1245. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722.
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