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Events in the year 1891 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 — Charles I of Württemberg to 6 October, then William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden — Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse — Louis IV
- 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 — Adolf I, 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
- Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont — George Victor, 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 — Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — from 7 August Bruno von Schuckmann (acting governor)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term) to 21 February, then Julius Freiherr von Soden (with ... Rüdiger, acting governor)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Fritz Rose (commissioner)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Louis Nels (acting commissioner) to March, then Curt von François (commissioner)
- Togoland — Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner) to 14 April, then vacant
Events
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Births
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- 8 January - Walther Bothe, German physicist (died 1957)
- 14 February - Erich Engel, film and theatre director (died 1966)
- 15 February - Josef Wintrich, German judge (died 1958)
- 17 February — Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and Zionist (died 1965)
- 11 March - Gertrud Wolle, German film actress (died 1952)
- 28 March - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (died 1959)
- 2 April - Max Ernst, German painter (died 1976)
- 13 May - Fritz Rasp, German actor (died 1976)
- 13 May - Wilhelm Weskamm, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1956)
- 22 May - Johannes R. Becher, German politician, poet and novelist (died 1958)
- 14 July - Fritz Kampers, German actor (died 1950)
- 14 July - Werner Rittberger, German figure skater (died 1975)
- 29 July — Bernhard Zondek, Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (died 1966)
- 4 September - Fritz Todt, German engineer (died 1942)
- 16 September — Karl Dönitz , German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II (died 1980)
- 22 September — Hans Albers, German actor (died 1960)
- 14 November - Josef Magnus Wehner, German poet and playwright (died 1973)
- 15 November — Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (died 1944)
- 16 November — Julius Leber, German politician (died 1945)
- 22 October - Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg, German politician and landowner (died 1958)
- 25 October - Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (died 1962)
- 2 December — Otto Dix, German painter and forced Volkssturm conscript (died 1969)
- 10 December — Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1970)
Deaths
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- 26 January — Nikolaus Otto, German engineer and inventor (born 1832)
- 14 March — Ludwig Windthorst, German politician (born 1812)
- 24 April - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal, chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years (born 1800)
- 22 May - Ernst Julius Hähnel, German sculptor (born 1811)
- 23 June — Wilhelm Eduard Weber, chemist (born 1804)
- 6 October — Charles I, King of Württemberg (born 1864)
- 14 December - Ferdinand von Roemer, German geologist (born 1818)
- 29 December - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (born 1823)
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