1887 in Germany

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Events in the year 1887 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### National level

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* Kaiser – William I
* Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

### State level

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#### Kingdoms

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* King of Bavaria – Otto
* King of Prussia – William I
* King of Saxony – Albert
* King of Württemberg – Charles

#### Grand Duchies

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* Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
* Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

#### Principalities

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* Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, 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

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* Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
* Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
* 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

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* Cameroon (Kamerun) – Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term) to 13 May, then Jesko von Puttkamer (1st term) to 4 October, then Eugen von Zimmerer (1st term)
* German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Karl Peters (administrator)
* German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner) to January; also Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
* German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
* Togoland – Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner) to May, then from July Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (1st term)
* Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident)

## Events

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* 21 February – German federal election, 1887
* 18 June – Reinsurance Treaty in Berlin[1]
* 29 September – Football club Hamburger SV was founded.

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* The Petri dish is created by German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri.
* Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic waves in radio, an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
* Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
* Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt is founded.
* Friedrich Loeffler creates Löffler's serum, a coagulated blood serum used for the detection of the bacteria.

## Births

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* 1 January – Wilhelm Canaris, German Imperial admiral and head of the German Abwehr (died 1945)
* 3 January – August Macke, German painter (died 1914)
* 7 January – Thomas Wimmer, German politician (died 1964)
* 29 January – Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1949)
* 6 February – Josef Frings, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died 1978)
* 8 February – Heinrich Spoerl, German author (died 1955)
* 20 March – Walther Kittel, Wehrmacht general (died 1971) in Metz, modern-day France
* 21 March – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (died 1953)
* 2 April – Louise Schroeder, German politician (died 1957)
* 19 April – Wolrad, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German nobleman (died 1962)
* 2 June – Gottlieb Hering, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died in 1945)
* 13 June – Bruno Frank, German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (died 1945)
* 20 June – Kurt Schwitters, German artist (died 1958)
* 23 June – Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (died 1960)
* 22 July – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
* 25 July – Carl Freiherr von Langen, German equestrian (died 1934)
* 8 August – Gertrud Morgner, German politician (died 1978)
* 9 August – Hans Oster, German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who was also a leading figure of the German resistance (died 1945)
* 22 August – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (died 1977)
* 3 September – Max Brauer, German politician (died 1973)
* 22 September – Hans Schlossberger, German physician (died 1960)
* 23 September – Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (died 1980)
* 10 November – Hans Ehard, German politician (died 1980)
* 11 November – Walther Wever, German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (died 1936)
* 24 November – Erich von Manstein, German commander of the Wehrmacht,(died 1973)
* 6 December – Heinrich von Vietinghoff, German general (died 1952)
* 28 December – Walter Ruttmann, German director (died 1941)

## Deaths

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* 17 July – Walther Otto Müller, German botanist (born 1833)
* 14 August – Adolf Pansch, German anatomist (born 1841)
* 29 September – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (born 1819)
* 17 October – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born 1824)

## References

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1. ^ "Reinsurance Treaty". Britannica. Retrieved 29 February 2024.

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Sovereign states|

*   * Andorra
*   *   *   * Austria-Hungary
*   * Baden
*   *   *   * Belgium
*   *   * Bulgaria
*   *   *   *   *   *   * Denmark
*   *   *   *   *   * France
*   * Germany
*   * Greece
*   *   *   *   *   * Italy
*   *   *   * Liechtenstein
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*   * Cyprus
*   * Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
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