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Events in the year 1916 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
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 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
Colonial Governors
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Horosēma Hellēno-germanikōn scheseōn. Wolfgang Schultheiss, Euangelos K. Chrysos. Athēna: Hidryma tēs Voulēs tōn Hellēnōn gia ton Koinovouleutismo kai tē Dēmokratia. 2010. ISBN 978-960-6757-28-0. OCLC 720573358.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ 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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