1883 in Germany

Events in the year 1883 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Emperor – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck
State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
King of Prussia – William I
King of Saxony – Albert
King of Württemberg – Charles
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
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 – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, 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 – William, Duke of Brunswick
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
Events
12 May – A German merchant Adolf Lüderitz purchases and takes possession of land in South-West Africa, which subsequently forms the basis of the first German colony of German South-West Africa.
Undated
German company AEG is founded in Berlin.
Germany gets the world's first national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883.
The Schotten-Baumann reaction is first described in 1883 by German chemists Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann.
The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen is opened.
Births
12 January – Gustav Otto, aircraft engineer
19 January – Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
31 January – Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician
16 February – Conrad Hommel, German painter
9 February – Fritz August Breuhaus, German architect, interior designer and designer
17 February – Selma Lohse, German politician
23 February – Otto Nuschke, German politician
23 February – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher
8 March – Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician
13 March – Eugen Ritter von Schobert, German general
18 May – Walter Gropius, German architect
18 May – Theodor Loos, German actor
7 July – Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, German nobleman
10 July – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general
10 July – Friedrich Flick, German entrepreneur and industrialist
7 August – Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer
20 August – Robert Lehr, German politician
11 September – Emil Rausch, German swimmer
17 September – Käthe Kruse, notable pioneer of German doll-making
14 September – Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg
24 September – Wilhelm Stählin, German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher
30 September – Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany
8 October – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
25 October – Walter Alfred Rosam, German painter
15 November – Günther Rüdel, German general
Deaths
19 January – Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, German sculptor
21 January – Prince Charles of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general
24 January – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer
13 February – Richard Wagner, German composer
27 February – Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue
14 March – Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
15 April – Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
29 April – Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German economist and politician
4 August – August Howaldt, German engineer and ship builder
19 November – Arnold Schaefer, German historian