1913 in Germany
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Events in the year 1913 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria to 5 November, then Ludwig III of Bavaria
- King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
- King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg
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 to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then 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 - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent) to 1 November, then Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November
- 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) — Karl Ebermaier (1st term) to 9 October, then ... Full
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) — Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — 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 — Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
Events
1913 Lloyd Wagen advertisement, Bremen
- May 16 – Eberswalde Hoard discovered
- June 20 – Bremen school shooting causes the death of five pupils and the wounding of more than 20 other people
- September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
- October 17 – Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board
Births
- 27 April — Luz Long, German long jump athlete (died 1943)
- 31 May - Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian (died 1979)
- 10 June — Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist (died 1993)
- 4 August — Johann Niemann, SS officer (died 1943)
- 10 August - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
- 8 November - Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer (died 2003)
- 18 December - Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1992)
- 25 December — Henri Nannen, German journalist (died 1996)
Deaths
- 29 March — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman (born 1832)
- 19 April - Hugo Winckler, archaeologist (born 1863)
- 29 May — Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector
- 13 August - August Bebel, politician (born 1840)
- 29 September - Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor (born 1858)
- 22 December — Theodor Kaes, neurologist
References
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