1883 in Germany
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Events in the year 1883 in Germany.
Incumbents
[edit]National level
[edit]State level
[edit]Kingdoms
[edit]- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II[4]
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Saxony – Albert
- King of Württemberg – Charles
Grand Duchies
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick
- 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
Events
[edit]- 12 May – A German merchant Adolf Lüderitz purchases and takes possession of land in South-West Africa, which subsequently forms the basis of the first German colony of German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika).
Undated
[edit]- German company AEG is founded in Berlin.
- Germany gets the world's first national social health insurance system by legislation of Otto von Bismarck's social legislation, which included the Health Insurance Bill of 1883.
- The Schotten-Baumann reaction is first described in 1883 by German chemists Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann.
- The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen is opened.
Births
[edit]- 12 January – Gustav Otto, aircraft engineer (died 1926)
- 19 January – Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)
- 31 January – Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, German judge and politician (died 1954)
- 16 February – Conrad Hommel, German painter (died 1971)
- 9 February – Fritz August Breuhaus, German architect, interior designer and designer (died 1960)
- 17 February – Selma Lohse, German politician (died 1937)
- 23 February – Otto Nuschke, German politician (died 1957)
- 23 February – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
- 8 March – Adolf Köster, German diplomat and politician (died 1930)
- 13 March – Eugen Ritter von Schobert, German general (died 1941)
- 18 May – Walter Gropius, German architect (died 1969)
- 18 May – Theodor Loos, German actor (died 1954)
- 7 July – Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1942)
- 10 July – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (died 1948)
- 10 July – Friedrich Flick, German entrepreneur and industrialist (died 1972)
- 7 August – Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer (died 1934)
- 20 August – Robert Lehr, German politician (died 1956)
- 11 September – Emil Rausch, German swimmer (died 1954)
- 17 September – Käthe Kruse, notable pioneer of German doll-making (died 1968)
- 14 September – Martin Dibelius, German academic theologian and New Testament professor at the University of Heidelberg (died 1947)
- 24 September – Wilhelm Stählin, German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher (died 1975)
- 30 September – Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
- 8 October – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (died 1970)
- 25 October – Walter Alfred Rosam, German painter (died 1916)
- 15 November – Günther Rüdel, German general (died 1950)
Deaths
[edit]- 19 January – Georg Ferdinand Howaldt, German sculptor (born 1802)
- 21 January – Prince Charles of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1801)
- 24 January – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (born 1812)
- 13 February – Richard Wagner, German composer (born 1813)
- 27 February – Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (born 1820)
- 14 March – Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist (born 1818)
- 15 April – Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1823)
- 29 April – Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German economist and politician (born 1808)
- 4 August – August Howaldt, German engineer and ship builder (born 1809)
- 19 November – Arnold Schaefer, German historian (born 1819)
References
[edit]- ^ Mohácsi Isó, István (2023). "A történetszálakra épülő színdarabírási módszer : A C1G, avagy Julius Caesar meggyilkolása". Theatron. 17 (2): 22–43. doi:10.55502/the.2023.2.22. ISSN 1418-9941.
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- ^ "2. HÖLSCHER: Hesekiel, der Dichter und das Buch", Ezechielprobleme, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 7–30, 1933-12-31, retrieved 2024-02-07
- ^ "World Per Capita Consumption of Sugar**Compiled from Sugar Beet Journal, April, 1923, quoting F. O. Licht of Germany; Archief voor de Suikerindustrie in Nederlandsch-Indie, November, 1922, p. 893, quoting F. O. Licht of Germany; Gazette de Prague, March 12, 1924, page 3; by the United States Department of Agriculture, being the latest data available". The Journal of the American Dental Association (1922). 11 (12): 1249. December 1924. doi:10.14219/jada.archive.1924.0146. ISSN 1048-6364.
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