1889 in Germany
Events in the year 1889 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- 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 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 – George Albert, 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
- 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 – Julius Freiherr von Soden ' to 26 December, then Eugen von Zimmerer '
- German East Africa – Hermann Wissmann ' '
- German New Guinea – Reinhold Kraetke ' to 31 October, then Fritz Rose ' from 1 November
- German South-West Africa – Heinrich Ernst Göring '
- Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer '
- Wituland – Gustav Denhardt ''''
Events
- 13 April – German company Rheinmetall was founded.
- 14 June – Treaty of Berlin over Samoa
- 3 October – German company K+S was founded.
Undated
Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889Births
- 8 January – Paul Hartmann, German actor
- 22 January – Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, professor of art and typographer
- 1 February – Rudolf Bauer, German-American painter
- 8 February – Siegfried Kracauer, German author, journalist, sociologist and
- 3 March – Carl Vincent Krogmann, German banker and politician
- 19 April – Otto Georg Thierack, German politician and jurist
- 20 April – Adolf Hitler, German Führer and politician
- 12 May – Otto Frank, German businessman
- 23 May – Erich Engels, German screenwriter, producer and film director
- 25 May – Günther Lütjens, German general
- 11 June – Otto Dessloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient
- 8 July – Hans Felber, German infantry general and Knight's Cross recipient
- 20 July – Erich Pommer, German film producer and executive
- 27 July – Hans von Opel, German industrialist
- 29 July – Ernst Reuter, German politician
- 21 September – Annemarie Steinsieck, German actress
- 26 September – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
- 3 October – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist
- 7 October:
- *Erich Büttner, German painter
- *Hans Tropsch, German chemist
- 16 October – Reinhold Maier, German politician
- November 1 – Hannah Höch, German artist
- 29 November – Margarete Haagen, German actress
- 30 November – Hans Bischoff – German entomologist
- 24 December – Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt, World War I German flying ace
Deaths
- 19 January – Alexander von Monts, German admiral
- 14 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist
- 26 March – C.F. Theodore Steinway, German piano maker
- 5 August – Fanny Lewald, poet and actor
- 21 December – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, geologist
- 26 December – Hermann von Thile, diplomat
- 27 December – Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, apothecary and industrialist