1912 in Germany
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Events in the year 1912 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
- King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- 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 V
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - William Ernest
Principalities
- 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 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 II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
- 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 - Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — .... Hansen (acting governor) to 29 March, then Karl Ebermaier (1st term)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) — Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg to 22 April, then Albert Heinrich Schnee
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) — Erich Schultz-Ewerth
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Seitz
- Togoland — Edmund Brückner to 19 June, then Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
Events
- December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.[1]
Births
- January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch, biochemist (died 2000)
- February 5 – Hedwig Potthast, secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler (died 1997)
- March 6 - Klaus von Bismarck, journalist (died 1997)
- March 23 - Wernher von Braun, aerospace engineer and space architect (died 1977)
- April 29 – Moshe Landau, German-born Israeli jurist and president of the Supreme Court of Israel (died 2011)
- May 2 - Axel Springer, German journalist (died 1985)
- June 5 - Josef Neckermann, German equestrian and businessman (died 1992)
Deaths
- January 8 – Friedrich Schrempf, editor and member of the Reichstag (born 1858)
- December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German industrialist and later professor of anthropology (born 1850)
References
- ↑ Freudenmann, R. W.; Oxler, F.; Bernschneider-Reif, S. (2006). "The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents." (PDF). Addiction. 101 (9): 1241–1245. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722.
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