1886 in Germany

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Events in the year 1886 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria – Ludwig II to 13 June, then Otto
King of Prussia – William I
King of Saxony – Albert
King of Württemberg – Charles

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Karl Peters (administrator)
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner); also from 10 June Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
Togoland – Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner)
Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Events

6 February – German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers chemical element Germanium.
14 November – Friedrich Soennecken files his patent for his holepunch Papierlocher für Sammelmappen.
15 November – Robert Bosch GmbH is founded.^[1]

Undated

German Friedrich Soennecken invents the ring binder in Bonn.^[2]
Neuschwanstein Castle is completed.^[3]

Births

Undated – Otto Wunderlich, German landscape photographer (died in 1975)
2 January – Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel German general (died 1944)
25 January – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (died 1954)
14 February – Karl Reinhardt, German philologist (died 1958)
6 March – Fritz Goerdeler, German jurist (died 1945)
10 March – Eugen Klöpfer, German actor (died 1950)
18 March – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German Imperial Naval submarine captain in World War I and Kriegsmarine Rear admiral (died 1941)
27 March – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (died 1969)
16 April – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (died 1944)
1 May – Walter Cramer, German businessman (died 1944)
2 May – Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist (died 1956)
3 May – Kurt von Briesen, German general (died 1941)
5 June – Kurt Hahn, German educator (died 1974)
7 August – Paul Westheim, German art historian and publisher (died 1963)
15 August – Karl Korsch, German politician (died 1961)
19 August – Robert Heger, German conductor (died 1878)
20 August – Paul Tillich, Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian (died 1965)
25 August – Johannes Stroux, German philologist and writer (died 1954)
14 September – Erich Hoepner, German general (died 1944)
20 September – Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German crown princess (died 1954)
4 October – Erich Fellgiebel, German general (died 1944)
7 October – Kurt Schmitt, German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister (died 1950)
15 October – Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German colonel (died 1944)
26 October – Hanns Braun, German athlete (died 2018)
6 November – Gus Kahn, German-American songwriter (died 1941)
7 November – Reinhold Schünzel, German actor (died 1954)
28 November – Cornelius van Oyen, German sport shooter (died 1954)
25 December:
- Gotthard Heinrici, German general (died 1971)
- Franz Rosenzweig, German theologian and philosopher (died 1929)

Deaths

9 April – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and novelist (born 1826)
23 May – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (born 1795)
13 June – Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (born 1845)
31 July – Franz Liszt, Alleged Symphonic Lich)

References

^ Theiner, Peter (2019-10-15). Robert Bosch: An Entrepreneur in an Age of Extremes. C.H.Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-74146-3.
^ "Hat der Aktenordner ausgedient?". cio.de (in German). 26 April 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
^ Petzet & Hojer 1991, p. 19

Bibliography

Petzet, M.; Hojer, G. (1991), Amtlicher Führer Schloss Neuschwanstein, Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen

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[1] Theiner, Peter (2019-10-15). Robert Bosch: An Entrepreneur in an Age of Extremes. C.H.Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-74146-3.

[2] "Hat der Aktenordner ausgedient?". cio.de (in German). 26 April 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2022.

[AFSN19-3] Petzet & Hojer 1991, p. 19

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