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See also:	Other events of 1889 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1889 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Albert
• King of Württemberg – Charles

Grand Duchies

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

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, 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

• 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

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Julius Freiherr von Soden (2nd term) to 26 December, then Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Reinhold Kraetke (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company) to 31 October, then Fritz Rose (acting commissioner) from 1 November
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
• Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
• Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Events

• 13 April – German company Rheinmetall was founded.
• 14 June – Treaty of Berlin over Samoa
• 3 October – German company K+S was founded.

Undated

• Old Age and Disability Insurance Bill of 1889

Births

• 8 January – Paul Hartmann, German actor (died 1977)
• 22 January – Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, professor of art and typographer (died 1955)
• 1 February – Rudolf Bauer, German-American painter (died 1953)
• 8 February – Siegfried Kracauer, German author, journalist, sociologist and (died 1966)
• 3 March – Carl Vincent Krogmann, German banker and politician (died 1978)
• 19 April – Otto Georg Thierack, German politician and jurist (died 1946)
• 20 April – Adolf Hitler, German Führer and politician (died 1945)
• 12 May – Otto Frank, German businessman (died 1980)
• 23 May – Erich Engels, German screenwriter, producer and film director (died 1971)
• 25 May – Günther Lütjens, German general (died 1941)
• 11 June – Otto Dessloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1977)
• 8 July – Hans Felber, German infantry general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1962)
• 20 July – Erich Pommer, German film producer and executive (died 1966)
• 27 July – Hans von Opel, German industrialist (died 1948)
• 29 July – Ernst Reuter, German politician (died 1953)
• 21 September – Annemarie Steinsieck, German actress (died 1977)
• 26 September – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)
• 3 October – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (died 1938)
• 7 October:
  • Erich Büttner, German painter (died 1936)
  • Hans Tropsch, German chemist (died 1935)
• 16 October – Reinhold Maier, German politician (died 1971)
• November 1 – Hannah Höch, German artist (died 1978)
• 29 November – Margarete Haagen, German actress (died 1966)
• 30 November – Hans Bischoff – German entomologist (died 1960)
• 24 December – Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt, World War I German flying ace (died 1962)

Deaths

• 19 January – Alexander von Monts, German admiral (born 1832)
• 14 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (born 1819)
• 26 March – C.F. Theodore Steinway, German piano maker (born 1825)
• 5 August – Fanny Lewald, poet and actor (born 1811)
• 21 December – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, geologist (born 1809)
• 26 December – Hermann von Thile, diplomat (born 1812)
• 27 December – Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, apothecary and industrialist (born 1824)

References

1. Biro, Matthew (2009). The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-81663-620-4.

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