Events in the year 1916 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level Emperor – Wilhelm II Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
State level
Kingdoms King of Bavaria – Ludwig III 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 VI 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 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 Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick 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 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
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. August - the Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz begins August 28 – WWI: Germany declares war on Romania. Italy declares war on Germany. 28 September - the 1916 Berlin strike begins 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.
Date unknown The 1916 Summer Olympics are cancelled in Berlin Food is rationed in the German Empire. Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine, is first synthesized.
Births
10 January – Richard Münch, German actor (died 1987) 23 January – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (died 1961) 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, German electrical engineer (died 1981) 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000) 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died 1943) 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977) 7 September – Käthe Menzel-Jordan, German architect and preservationist (died 2026) 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)
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) 13 July – Josef Rieder (cyclist) 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848). 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884) 4 December – Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892) 5 December - Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, grandmother of Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1822 in the United Kingdom) 19 December – Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)
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