1895 in Germany
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Events in the year 1895 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia — Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony
- King of Württemberg — William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden — Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse — Ernest Louis
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin — Frederick Francis III
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg — Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — Charles Alexander
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe — George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen — Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe — Woldemar, Prince of Lippe to 20 March, then Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe as regent)
- Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont — Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt — Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick — Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — Jesko von Puttkamer (3rd term) to 27 March, then ...von Lücke to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (4th term) to 26 October, then from 27 October Theodor Seitz (2nd term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele to 25 April, then Hermann Wissmann
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Gerog Schmiele to 3 March, then Hugo Rüdiger (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
- Togoland — Jesko von Puttkamer (Landeshauptleute) (2nd term) to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)
Births
- January 20 — Walter Bock, German chemist (died 1948)
- April 7 — Margarete Schön, German actress (died 1985)
- September 6 — Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program (died 1980)
- September 15 — Hildebrand Gurlitt, art dealer (died 1956)
- October 30 — Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist (1964)
- December 2 — Erwin Casmir, fencer (died 1982)
- December 29 — Oswald Freisler, lawyer (died 1939)
Deaths
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- March 20 — Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, nobleman (born 1824)
- April 23 - Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (born 1816)
- May 23 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (born 1798)
- July 14 - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German writer (born 1825)
- August 5 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher, social scientist and journalist (born 1820)
- September 8 - Adam Opel, German founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (born 1837)
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