1916 in Germany

Events in the year 1916 in Germany.

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Decades:

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See also:

Other events of 1916
History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

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.

Years in Germany (1871–present)
19th century	Pre-1871 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

1916 in Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Austria-Hungary Baden Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Ottoman Empire Portugal Prussia Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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