1913 in Germany
Events in the year 1913 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto to 5 November, then Ludwig III
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
- King of Württemberg – William II
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg to 1 November, then Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, 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 – Karl Ebermaier ' to 9 October, then... Full
- Kiaochow – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa – Albert Heinrich Schnee
- German New Guinea – Albert Hahl '
- German Samoa – Erich Schultz-Ewerth
- German South-West Africa – Theodor Seitz
- Togoland – Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
Events
- April 10 - Albrecht Grocery Shop, predecessor of the Aldi discount store chain globally, is founded in Essen.
- May 16 – Eberswalde Hoard discovered
- June 20 – Bremen school shooting causes the death of five pupils and the wounding 21 other people.
- September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
- October 17 – Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board
- Date unknown - Bergius process is invented by German chemist Friedrich Bergius.
- Date unknown - Chemical element Protactinium is first identified by Oswald Helmuth Göhring and Kasimir Fajans.
- Date unknown - Die Naturwissenschaften first published by Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
Births
- 23 January - Herbert Runge, German boxer
- 29 January - Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer
- 25 February — Gert Fröbe, German actor
- 26 February – Hermann Lenz, German poet and author
- 2 March - Falk Harnack, German director and screenwriter
- 18 March - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander
- 21 March - Werner Höfer, German journalist
- 9 April - Heinrich Wöhlk German optometrist.
- 10 April - Stefan Heym, German writer
- 19 April - Karl Rawer, German physicist, specialist in radio wave propagation and the ionosphere
- 21 April - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
- 24 April - Paul Esser, German actor
- 27 April – Luz Long, German long jump athlete
- 13 May - Lotte Rausch, German actress
- 26 May - Josef Manger, German heavy weightlifter
- 31 May – Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian
- 2 June - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer, song-writer
- 10 June – Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist
- 26 June – Rudolf Brazda, German concentration camp prisoner
- 1 August - Heinz Ellenberg, German biologist
- 1 August - Hajo Herrmann, German Luftwaffe pilot
- 4 August – Johann Niemann, SS officer
- 10 August – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist
- 26 August - Julius Döpfner, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
- 15 September - Johannes Steinhoff, German general
- 15 September - Hans Filbinger, German politician
- 26 September - Berthold Beitz, German industrialist
- 26 September - Ernst Schnabel, German writer
- 24 October - Jürgen Oesten, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II.
- 8 November – Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer
- 13 November - Walter Horten, German aircraft pilot
- 21 November - Volker von Collande, German actor and film director
- 24 November - Gisela Mauermayer, German athlete
- 9 December - Friedrich Dickel, German politician
- 9 December - Fritz Grasshoff, German writer
- 18 December – Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany
- 19 December - Ernst Stuhlinger, German rocket scientist
- 25 December – Henri Nannen, German journalist
- 28 December - Egbert Hayessen, German mayor
- 30 December - Tilo von Berlepsch, German actor
Deaths
- 4 January - Alfred von Schlieffen, German fieldmarshall
- 6 January - Carl Arp, landscape painter
- 8 January - Friedrich Schrempf, German editor and politician
- 11 January - Karl Binz, German pharmacologist
- 21 January - Friedrich von Hollmann, German admiral
- 6 March – Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, botanist
- 29 March – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman
- 14 April - Carl Hagenbeck, German merchant
- 19 April – Hugo Winckler, archaeologist
- 29 April - Andreas Flocken, German engineer and inventor
- 29 May – Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector
- 9 August – Wilhelm Albermann, German sculptor
- 13 August
- * Bernhard Bardenheuer, surgeon
- * August Bebel, politician
- 21 August – Carl Ludwig von Bar, jurist
- 29 August – Herman Aron, electrical engineer
- 31 August – Erwin Bälz, physician and anthropologist
- 29 September – Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor
- 5 October - Hans von Bartels, painter
- 10 October - Adolphus Busch, German businessman
- 7 December - Heinrich Ernst Göring, German jurist and diplomat
- 8 December - Johann von Berenberg-Gossler, banker
- 22 December – Theodor Kaes, neurologist