1902 in Germany

Events in the year 1902 in Germany.

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See also:	Other events of 1902 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II^[1]
• Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow^[2]

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Albert to 19 June, then George
• King of Württemberg – William II

Grand duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, 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 – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term) to 3 February, then … Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
• Togoland – August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn

Events

• December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

Births

• 6 January – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (died 1994)^[3]
• 17 January – Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (died 1986)^[4]
• 30 January – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian (died 1983)
• 1 February – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (d. 1948)
• 5 February – Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
• 7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)^[5]
• 18 March – Siegfried Westphal, German general (died 1982)
• 21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
• 2 April – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)^[6]
• 2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
• 13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)^[7]
• 10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
• 12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
• 22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003)
• 5 September – Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944)
• 21 October – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990)
• 1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)^[8]
• 4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)^[9]
• 22 November – Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989)
• 21 December – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944)

Deaths

• 7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, writer (born 1835)
• March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (born 1821)
• April 5 - Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)
• April 19
  • Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (born 1846)
  • Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (born 1850)
• 19 June – Albert, King of Saxony, (born 1828)
• 5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (born 1821)
• 26 September – Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. (born 1829)
• 7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (born 1832)
• 25 November – Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic (born 1841)

References

1. "William II | emperor of Germany | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
2. "GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR". West Gippsland Gazette. No. 197. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1902. p. 4 (MORNING.). Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
3. Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, "Helmut Poppendick Affidavit, 14 January 1947", Harvard Law School Library Item No. 849. 25 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
4. National Archives (2001). The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force: 1933-1945. London: Public Record Office. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-903365-30-4.
5. Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 149.
6. Tschichold, Jan (1982). Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9780902220539.
7. Laporte, Leo (2005). Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac. Indianapolis, Ind: Que. p. 263. ISBN 9780789733191.
8. Sandford, John (1999). Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. London New York: Routledge. p. 323. ISBN 9781136816031.
9. Who's who in Technology. Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien. 1984. p. 154.