1916 in Germany
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Events in the year 1916 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 XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont - Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March — Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Albert Heinrich Schnee
Events
- 4 March — Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces.
- 7 March - German company BMW was founded.
- 4 September — Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.
- Date unknown - The Born–Haber cycle is an approach to analyze reaction energies. It was named after the two German scientists Max Born and Fritz Haber, who developed it in 1916.
- Date unknown - Albert Einstein publishes "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" on general relativity in Annalen der Physik 49 and shows that the field equations of general relativity admit wavelike solutions. This will be demonstrated in 2016.[1]
- Date unknown - Karl Schwarzschild solves the Einstein vacuum field equations for uncharged spherically-symmetric non-rotating systems and calculates Schwarzschild radius.
Births
- 28 January - Wilhelm Neef, German conductor and composer (died 1990)
- 12 February - Helmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer (died 1981)
- 10 May — Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000)
- 9 June — Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died (died 1943)
- 26 June — Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
- 17 October - Friedrich Schoenfelder, German actor (died 2011)
- 26 October - Wolf Kaiser, German actor (died 1992)
- 20 September - Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)
- 8 November - Peter Weiss, German writer (died 1982)
- 9 December - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German writer (died 1991)
- 19 December - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (died 2010)
Deaths
- 12 February - Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
- 4 March - Franz Marc, painter (born 1880)
- 11 May:
- Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
- Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
- 27 April - Bruno Schmitz, German architect (born 1858)
- 30 May - Adolph Frank, German chemist (born 1834)
- 18 June - Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, chief of the German General Staff from 1906 to 1914 (born 1848)
- 13 July - Josef Rieder (cyclist), German cyclist (born 1893)
- 30 July - Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, German physician (born 1855)
- 18 September - Friedrich Baumfelder, German conductor (born 1836)
- 11 October — Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848)
- 8 November - Prince Heinrich of Bavaria, member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a highly decorated Army officer in the First World War (born 1884)
- 15 November - Heinrich von Tschirschky, diplomat and politician (born 1858)
- 4 December - Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892)
- 6 December - Eugen Dücker, German painter (born 1841)
- 16 December - Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (born 1848)
- 19 December - Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)
References
- ↑ Ghosh, Pallab (2016-02-11). "Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
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