1901 in Germany
The following is a list of events from the year 1901 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert
- King of Württemberg – William II
Grand duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander to 5 January, then William Ernest
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, 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 – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial governors
- Cameroon – Jesko von Puttkamer '
- Kiaochow – Otto Jäschke to 27 January, then Max Rollmann ' to 8 June, then Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa – Eduard von Liebert to 12 March, then Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea – Rudolf von Bennigsen to 10 July, then Albert Hahl ' '
- German Samoa – Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa – Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland – August Köhler
Events
- 23 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom.
- 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen.
- 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.
- 25 November – Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.
Date unknown
- Oscar Troplowitz invents the medical plaster patch called "Leukoplast" for Beiersdorf.
Births
- 11 January – Henning von Tresckow, German army officer and anti-Hitler conspirator
- 12 January – Karl Künstler, Nazi concentration camp commandant
- 19 January – Fred Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer
- 21 March – Karl Arnold, German politician
- 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German-Israeli lawyer and politician
- 27 March – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician
- 17 May – Max Lorenz, German tenor
- 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist
- 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician
- 7 July – Gustav Knuth, German film actor
- 24 August – Edmund Germer, German electrical engineer and inventor
- 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official
- 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker
- 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist
- 19 December – Rudolf Hell, German inventor
- 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer Undated – Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period
Deaths
- 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow
- 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist
- 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 5 August – Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II
- 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist
- 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker
- 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher
- 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer
- 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer