1902 in Germany
The following is a list of events from the year 1902 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – King of Bavaria|Otto]
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Albert to 19 June, then George
- 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 Oldenburg|Frederick Augustus II]
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – 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 to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, 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 (1837–1906)|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 ' to 3 February, then... Plehn ' to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer '
- Kiaochow – Oskar von Truppel
- German East Africa – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
- German New Guinea – Albert Hahl '
- German Samoa – Wilhelm Solf
- German South-West Africa – Theodor Leutwein
- Togoland – August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn
Events
- December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which United [Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain], Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Births
- 6 January - Helmut Poppendick, German physician
- 17 January - Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general
- 30 January – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian
- 1 February – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal
- 5 February – Paul Nevermann, German politician
- 7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor
- 18 March – Siegfried Westphal, German general
- 21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor
- 2 April – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer
- 25 April – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist
- 10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist
- 2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist
- 12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician
- 13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer
- 22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer.
- 5 September – Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot
- 21 October – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
- 1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor
- 4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist
- 22 November – Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician
- 21 December – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
Deaths
- 7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, writer
- March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF
- April 5 – Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist
- April 19
- * Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz
- * Hans von Pechmann, German chemist
- 19 June – Albert, King of Saxony,
- 5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician
- 7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor
- 26 September – Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
- 25 November – Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic