Events in the year 1912 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level Emperor – Wilhelm II Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
State level
Kingdoms King of Bavaria – Otto King of Prussia – Wilhelm II King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III King of Württemberg – William II
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest
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.
Undated German company Fresenius is founded by Eduard Fresenius. Alfred Wegener proposes a fully formulated theory of continental drift and gave the supercontinent Pangaea its name. Max von Laue suggests using crystal lattices to diffract X-rays. Neosalvarsan becomes available and supersedes the more toxic and less water-soluble salvarsan as an effective treatment for syphilis.
Births
16 January – Willy Kaiser, German boxer (died 1986) 21 January – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (died 2000) 1 February – Erich Campe, German boxer (died 1977) 5 February – Hedwig Potthast, German secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997) 18 February – Heinz Kühn, German politician (died 1992) 24 February – Ulrich de Maizière, German general (died 2006) 3 March – Klaus Gysi, politician (died 1999) 4 March – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (died 1996) 6 March – Klaus von Bismarck, German journalist (died 1997) 8 March – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander (died 1941) 13 March – Carl Raddatz, German actor (died 2004) 22 March – Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (died 2000) 23 March – Wernher von Braun, German aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977) 29 March – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d. 1979) 31 March – Hermann Höcherl, German politician (died 1989) 29 April – Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011) 2 May: Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985) Karl Adam, German rowing coach (died 1976) 9 May – Fritz Sennheiser, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser (died 2010) 1 June – Oswald Lange, German aerospace engineer (died 2012) 5 June – Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992) 11 June - Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist (died 1996) 21 June – Toni Merkens, German cyclist (died 1944) 28 June – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (died 2007) 30 June – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical pioneers of Germany (died 2003) 8 July – Christel Goltz, German operatic soprano (died 2008) 9 July Willi Stadel, German gymnast (died [1999) Albrecht Obermaier, German naval officer (died 2004) 12 July – Felix Zwolanowski, German international footballer (died 1998) 28 July – Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1988) 3 August: Fritz Hellwig, German politician (died 2017) Richard Holm, German operatic tenor (died 1988) 14 August – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (died 1994) 31 August – Helmut Hamann, German athlete (died 1941) 2 September – Ingeborg Rapoport, German pediatrician (died 2017) 19 September – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (died 2011) 22 September – Herbert Mataré, German physicist, European co-inventor of the transistor (died 2011) 5 October – Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal (d. 2004) 14 October – Albert Richter, German cyclist (died 1940) 1 November – Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer (died 2013) 28 November – Heinz Galinski, President of Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1992) 29 November – Günther Smend, German officer (died 1944) Date unknown Hans Metzger, former German diplomat Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (died 1994)
Deaths 8 January – Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858) 5 February – Botho zu Eulenburg (born 1831) 8 February – Wilhelm von Hahnke, German fieldmarshall (born 1833) 5 March – Rochus von Liliencron, German germanist and historian (born 1820) 12 March – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Dönitz, German physician, anatomist, zoologist and entomologist (born 1838) 30 March – Karl May, German writer (born 1842) 30 July – Friedrich Schulze, German architect (born 1843) 10 August – Paul Wallot, German architect (born 1841) 24 September – Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, German politician (born 1842) 10 October – Rudolf Arnold Nieberding, German politician (born 1888) 27 October – Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum, German diplomat and politician (born 1835) 22 November – Otto Lessing, German sculptor (born 1846) 28 November – Otto Brahm, German drama and literary critic (born 1856) 23 December – Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850) 30 December – Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German diplomat and politician (born 1852)
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