Events in the year 1915 in

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser Kaiser ( ; ) is the title historically used by German and Austrian emperors. In German, the title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (). In English, the word ''kaiser'' is mainly applied to the emperors ...

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Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ...

Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

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Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (29 November 1856 – 1 January 1921) was a German politician who was chancellor of the German Empire, imperial chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry ...

State level

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt. History Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of House of Schwarzburg, Schwarzburg dy ...

– Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg *

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a small principality in Germany, in the present day state of Thuringia, with its capital at Sondershausen. History Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a county (earldom) until 1697. In that year, it became a principal ...

– Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg *

Principality of Lippe Lippe (later Lippe-Detmold and then again Lippe) was a state in Germany, ruled by the House of Lippe. It was located between the Weser river and the southeast part of the Teutoburg Forest. It originated as a state during the Holy Roman Empire, an ...

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Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (''Leopold Julius Bernhard Adalbert Otto Karl Gustav''; 30 May 1871 – 30 December 1949) was the final sovereign of the Principality of Lippe in northwestern Germany from 1905 until his abdication in 1918. Prior t ...

* 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

* Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt * Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick * 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 Saxe-Meiningen ( ; ) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine duchies, Ernestine line of the House of Wettin, located in the southwest of the present-day Germany, German state of Thuringia. Established in 1681, by partition of the Ern ...

– Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

(Kamerun) – Karl Ebermaier ''(2nd and final term)'' * German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee * German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Seitz to 15 July

Events

* 9 July – German forces in German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) capitulate and the territory is occupied by

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. * 20 August – An auto parts,

electronics Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other Electric charge, electrically charged particles. It is a subfield ...

and other manufacturing brand,

ZF Friedrichshafen ZF Friedrichshafen AG, also known as ZF Group, originally ''Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen'' (), and commonly abbreviated to ZF, is a Germany, German technology manufacturing company that supplies systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles ...

was founded, as predecessor name was Zepernicker Zahnradfabrik.

Undated

*German geophysicist Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent. *German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer publishes an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

Births

* 22 January – Heinrich Albertz, German politician (died

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

) *

27 January Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...

– Ernst Schröder, German actor (died

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

) * 14 February – Georg Thomalla, German actor (died

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

) * 21 February – Roland von Hößlin, German officer (died

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...

) * 6 March – Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German officer (died

) * 7 March – Johannes Wiese, German pilot during World War II, a fighter ace (died 1991) * 11 March – Karl Krolow, German poet (died 1991) * 12 March – Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots (died

) * 13 April: **

Max Jammer Max Jammer (; born Moshe Jammer, ; 13 April 1915 – 18 December 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosophy of physics, philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He was Rector and Acting President at Bar-Ilan University from 19 ...

, German-born Israeli physicist (died

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

) ** Stephan Hermlin, German poet (died

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

) * 16 June – Marga Faulstich, German chemist (died

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

) * 25 August – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht (died

) * 26 August – Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat (died 2002) * 28 August – Paul Schneider-Esleben, German architect (died 2005 in Germany, 2005) * 5 September – Horst Sindermann, German politician (died 1990 in Germany, 1990) * 6 September – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (died 1988 in Germany, 1988) * 15 September – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (died 1996 in Germany, 1996) * 9 October – Henner Henkel, German tennis champion (died 1942 in Germany, 1942) * 9 December - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-British operatic soprano (died 2006 in the United Kingdom, 2006) * 13 December – Curd Jürgens, German actor (died 1982 in Germany, 1982)

Deaths

*4 January – Anton von Werner, German painter (born 1843 in Germany, 1843) *9 April – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (born 1852 in Germany, 1852) *2 May – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870 in Germany, 1870) *10 May – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (born 1856 in Germany, 1856) *15 May – Oskar Frenzel, German painter (born 1855 in Germany, 1855) *20 June – Emil Rathenau, German entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1838 in Germany, 1838) * 9 July – Carl Walther, German gunsmith (born 1858 in Germany, 1858) *15 July – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (born 1844 in Germany, 1844) *4 August – Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (born 1846 in Germany, 1846) * 20 August – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and scientist (born 1854 in Germany, 1854) *19 September – David Friedrich Weinland, German zoologist and novelist (born 1829 in Germany, 1829) *27 September – Kaspar von Zumbusch, German sculptor (born 1830 in Germany, 1830) *15 October – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (born 1862 in Germany, 1862) *4 December – Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, composer and conductor (born 1855 in Germany, 1855) *19 December – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864 in Germany, 1864)

References

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