1890 in Germany

Events in the year 1890 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Emperor – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck to March 20, then Leo von Caprivi

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon – Eugen von Zimmerer ' ' to, then Markus Graf Pfeil, to 3 August, then... Kurz ' to December 2, then Jesko von Puttkamer '
German East Africa – Hermann Wissmann ' '
German New Guinea – Fritz Rose '
German South-West Africa – Heinrich Ernst Göring ' to August, then Louis Nels '
Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer '
Wituland – Gustav Denhardt to 1 July

Events

5 February – German company Allianz is founded in Berlin.
20 February – German federal election, 1890.
18 March Otto von Bismarck resigned. From 1862 to 1890, he held office as the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia
20 March - Leo von Caprivi shift begins
20 March – Bismarck cabinet ends.
30 April - Founding of the German Naval League
May - Introduction of the Old Age and Disability Insurance Law
31 May — The Ulm Minster is completed as the world's tallest cathedral.
1 July — Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the UK vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.
16 July - German company Mannesmann is founded in Düsseldorf.
August — Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Alexander III of Russia meet at Narva.

Date unknown

German physician and physiologist Emil von Behring publishes an article with Kitasato Shibasaburo reporting that they have developed "antitoxins" against both diphtheria and tetanus in Berlin.
Founding of the literary magazine Neue Rundschau - the magazine was founded in 1890 by Otto Brahm and S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.

Births

9 January – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer
30 January – Albert Zürner, German diver
6 February – Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher
20 February – Georg Thomas, German general
5 March – Wilhelm Boden, German politician
22 March – Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician
22 April – Erwin Jaenecke, German general
10 May – Alfred Jodl, German general
15 June – Wilhelm Leuschner, German politician
25 June – Hans Marchwitza, German writer and poet
4 July – Otto Feick, German gymnast
8 July – Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright
29 July – Elisabeth von Thadden, German educator and resistance fighter
30 July – Ludwig Schwamb, German politician
3 August – Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright
4 August – Erich Weinert, German author
14 August – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war criminal
18 August – Walther Funk, German banker and economist
19 August – Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German-born Queen consort of Portugal in exile
22 August – Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German World War I fighter pilot and ace
16 September – Traugott Herr, German general
21 September – Max Immelmann, German World War I fighter ace
23 September – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal
8 October – Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer
10 October – Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot
29 October – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general
8 November – Conrad Weygand, German chemist
2 December – C. Paul Jennewein, German-American sculptor
6 December:
* Hans Bethge, German pilot
* Carl Jules Weyl, German-American art director and Reichswehr soldier
17 December – Prince Joachim of Prussia, German nobleman

Deaths

7 January - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German queen
20 January – Franz Lachner, German composer and conductor
27 January – Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, German psychiatrist
18 March – Johann Georg Halske, German businessman
19 March – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman
27 March – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist
30 April – Hermann von Dechend, German politician who served as the first President of the Reichsbank
26 May – Adelbert Delbrück, German banker and businessman
27 August - Emil Otto Grundmann, German painter
3 September - Johann von Lutz, German politician
15 September – Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss, German scientist
19 September – Friedrich Gaedcke, German chemist
23 September - Lorenz von Stein, German economist and sociologist
4 November - Helene Demuth, German housekeeper
3 December – Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, German politician
26 December - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology