1897 in Germany

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Events in Germany in the year 1897.

Incumbents

National level

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis III to 10 April, then Frederick Francis IV
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Theodor Seitz (2nd term) to 10 September, then Jesko von Puttkamer (5th term) from 11 September
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Curt von Hagen to 13 August, then Albert Hahl (acting) (1st term) to 11 September, then Hugo Skopnik (all Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
Togoland – August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)

Events

10 May – The Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB) is passed by the Reichtstag. The HGB will come into force together with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) on 1 January 1900.
10 August – Rudolf Diesel builds his first working prototype Diesel engine in Augsburg.
10 October – Chemists working at Bayer AG create a synthetically altered version of salicin which the company names Aspirin.

Undated

David Hilbert unifies the field of algebraic number theory with his treatise Zahlbericht.
The Daimler Victoria—the world's first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897.

Births

9 January – Karl Löwith, German philosopher (died 1973)
14 January – Hasso von Manteuffel, German general during World War II (died 1978)
4 February – Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (died 1977)
19 February – Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, German opera singer (died 1978)
2 March – Gurit Kadman, German-born Israeli dance instructor and choreographer (died 1987)
8 April – Will Dohm, German actor (died 1948)
9 April – Ernst Melsheimer, German lawyer (died 1960)
19 April – Bruno Diekmann, German politician (died 1982)
11 May – Kurt Gerron, German actor (died 1944)
16 June – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1987
27 June – Heinz von Cleve, German actor (died 1984)
5 July – Paul Ben-Haim (born Paul Frankenburger), German-born Israeli composer (died 1984)
17 July – Max Knoll, German electrical engineer (died 1969)
4 August – Adolf Heusinger, German general (died 1982)
10 August – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (died 1970)
30 August – August Bach, German politician (died 1966)
28 October – Hans Speidel, German general (died 1984)
29 October – Joseph Goebbels, German politician (died 1945)
12 November – Karl Marx, German composer (died 1985)
23 November – Fritz Steinhoff, German politician (died 1969)
5 December – Gershom Scholem (born Gerhard Scholem), German-born Israeli philosopher and historian (died 1982)
14 December – Thomas Dehler, German politician (died 1967)
Full date unknown – Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer, German-born Israeli biologist and zoologist (died 1959)

Deaths

19 February – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (born 1815)
11 March – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (born 1819)
3 April – Johannes Brahms, German German composer and pianist (born 1833)
10 April – Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1851)
11 April – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (born 1819)
17 June – Sebastian Kneipp, German priest (born 1821)
21 July – Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (born 1820)
8 August – Viktor Meyer, German chemist (born 1848)
20 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (born 1819)
30 September – Leopold Auerbach, German anatomist and neuropathologist (born 1828)
1 November — Ulrike Henschke, German women's right activist and education reformer (born 1830)^[1]

3 December – Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, German astronomer (born 1835)

References

^ Obschemitzki, Doris (1987). Der Frau ihre Arbeit!: Lette-Verein : zur Geschichte einer Berliner Institution 1866 bis 1986 (in German). Berlin: Edition Hentrich. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-92617-506-9.

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[1] Obschemitzki, Doris (1987). Der Frau ihre Arbeit!: Lette-Verein : zur Geschichte einer Berliner Institution 1866 bis 1986 (in German). Berlin: Edition Hentrich. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-92617-506-9.

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