1889_in_Germany Knowpia

Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	Other events of 1889; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events in the year 1889 in Germany.

Incumbents edit

National level edit

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level edit

Kingdoms edit

Grand Duchies edit

Principalities edit

Duchies edit

Colonial Governors edit

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Julius Freiherr von Soden (2nd term) to 26 December, then Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Reinhold Kraetke (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company) to 31 October, then Fritz Rose (acting commissioner) from 1 November
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Events edit

13 April – German company Rheinmetall was founded.
14 June – Treaty of Berlin over Samoa
3 October – German company K+S was founded.

Undated edit

Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889

Births edit

8 January – Paul Hartmann, German actor (died 1977)
22 January – Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, professor of art and typographer (died 1955)
1 February – Rudolf Bauer, German-American painter (died 1953)
8 February – Siegfried Kracauer, German author, journalist, sociologist and (died 1966)
3 March – Carl Vincent Krogmann, German banker and politician (died 1978)
19 April – Otto Georg Thierack, German politician and jurist (died 1946)
20 April – Adolf Hitler, German Führer and politician (died 1945)
12 May – Otto Frank, German businessman (died 1980)
23 May – Erich Engels, German screenwriter, producer and film director (died 1971)
25 May – Günther Lütjens, German general (died 1941)
11 June – Otto Dessloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1977)
8 July – Hans Felber, German infantry general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1962)
20 July – Erich Pommer, German film producer and executive (died 1966)
27 July – Hans von Opel, German industrialist (died 1948)
29 July – Ernst Reuter, German politician (died 1953)
21 September – Annemarie Steinsieck, German actress (died 1977)
26 September – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)
3 October – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (died 1938)
7 October:
- Erich Büttner, German painter (died 1936)
- Hans Tropsch, German chemist (died 1935)
16 October – Reinhold Maier, German politician (died 1971)
November 1 – Hannah Höch, German artist (died 1978)^[1]
29 November – Margarete Haagen, German actress (died 1966)
30 November – Hans Bischoff – German entomologist (died 1960)
24 December – Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt, World War I German flying ace (died 1962)

Deaths edit

19 January – Alexander von Monts, German admiral (born 1832)
14 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (born 1819)
26 March – C.F. Theodore Steinway, German piano maker (born 1825)
5 August – Fanny Lewald, poet and actor (born 1811)
21 December – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, geologist (born 1809)
26 December – Hermann von Thile, diplomat (born 1812)
27 December – Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, apothecary and industrialist (born 1824)

References edit

^ Biro, Matthew (2009). The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-81663-620-4.