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Events in the year 1916 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### National level

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* Kaiser – Wilhelm II
* Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

### State level

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#### Kingdoms

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* King of Bavaria – Ludwig III
* King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
* King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
* King of Württemberg – William II

#### Grand Duchies

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* 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 VI
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

#### Principalities

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* 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 (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
* Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
* Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#### Duchies

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* Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
* Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
* 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 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

#### Colonial Governors

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* Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
* German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee

## Events

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* 4 March – Germany surrenders German Cameroon (Kamerun) to British and French occupying forces.
* August - the Internment of the Greek IV Corps at Görlitz begins[1][2]
* 28 September \- the 1916 Berlin strike begins[3]
* 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.

## Births

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* 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer (died 1981)
* 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000)
* 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died (died 1943)
* 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
* 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)

## Deaths

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* 12 February – Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
* 4 March – Franz Marc, painter (born 1880)
* 11 May:
* Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
* Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
* 13 July – Josef Rieder (cyclist)
* 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848).
* 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884
* 4 December – Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892
* 5 December \- Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, grandmother of Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1822 in the United Kingdom)
* 19 December – Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)

## References

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1. ^ Zografos, Anastasios (2019), Campion, Jonas; López, Laurent; Payen, Guillaume (eds.), "Disarmed and Captive: Greek Gendarmes in Görlitz", European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 89–102, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26102-3_7, ISBN 978-3-030-26102-3, retrieved 2023-03-24
2. ^ Wolfgang Schultheiss; Euangelos K. Chrysos, eds. (2010). Horosēma Hellēno-germanikōn scheseōn. Athēna: Hidryma tēs Voulēs tōn Hellēnōn gia ton Koinovouleutismo kai tē Dēmokratia. ISBN 978-960-6757-28-0. OCLC 720573358.
3. ^ Hoffrogge, Ralf (11 September 2014). Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement. Brill. p. 37\. doi:10.1163/9789004280069. ISBN 978-90-04-28006-9.

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