1909 in Germany
Events in the year 1909 in Germany .
Incumbents
State level
Principalities
Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (who assumed the title "Prince of Schwarzburg" from 28 March)
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen to 28 March, then 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
Events
Undated
(Methylkautschuk).
Births
4 January – Cilly Aussem , German tennis player (died 1963 )
8 January – Willy Millowitsch , German actor (died 1999 )
15 January – Jean Bugatti , German automobile designer (died 1939 )
31 January – Yosef Burg German-born Israeli politician and rabbi (died 1999 )
3 February – Kurt Petter , physician, youth leader and educational administrator (died 1969 )
20 February – Heinz Erhardt , German comedian (died 1979 )
19 March – Otto John , German lawyer (died 1997 )
27 March – Golo Mann , German historian, essayist and writer (died 1994 )
2 April – Otto Haxel , German nuclear physicist (died 1998 )
23 April – Karl Klasen , German banker (died 1991 )
24 April : Bernhard Grzimek German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.(died 1987 )
Konrad Frey , German gymnast (died 1974 )
Werner Jacobs , German film director (died 1999 )
25 April – Ludwig Martin , German lawyer (died 2010 )
26 April – Marianne Hoppe , German actress (died 2002 )
8 May – Paul May , German film director (died 1976 )
11 May – Georg von Holtzbrinck , German publisher (died 1983 )
22 May – Willi Geiger , German judge (died 1994 )
25 May – Alfred Kubel , German politician (died 1999 )
21 June — Helmut Möckel , youth leader and politician (died 1945 )
22 June – Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort , German officer (died 1944 )
4 July – Alex Seidel , German weapons manufacturer (died 1989 )
7 July – Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player (died 1976 )
12 July – Fritz Leonhardt , German structural engineer (died 1999 )
22 July – Franz-Josef Röder , politician (died 1979 )
9 August – Adam von Trott zu Solz , German diplomat (died 1944 )
13 August – Werner Otto , German businessman (died 2011 )
5 September – Hans Carste , German composer and conductor (died 1971 )
7 September – Kurt A. Körber , German entrepreneur (died 1992 )
14 October – Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing driver (died 1938 )
25 October – Dieter Borsche , German actor (died 1982 )
30 October – Carl Lange , German actor (died 1999 )
7 November – Ezriel Carlebach , German-born Israeli journalist and publicist (died 1956 )
1 December – Hans-Heinrich Sievert , German decathlete (died 1963 )
2 December – Marion Dönhoff , German journalist (died 2002 )
3 December – Charlotte Kretschmann , German supercentenarian (died 2024 )
23 December – Joachim Werner , German archaeologist (died 1994 )
Deaths
22 January – Emil Erlenmeyer , chemist (born 1825 )
2 February – Adolf Stoecker , German pastor and politician (born 1835 )
26 February – Hermann Ebbinghaus , psychologist (born 1850 )
24 March – Alfred Messel , German architect (born 1853 )
28 March – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , nobleman (born 1830 )
30 April – Albert Langen , German publisher (born 1869 )
9 May – Margarete Steiff , German seamstress and company founder (born 1847 )
13 May – Heinrich Limpricht , German chemist (born 1827 )
19 May - Gustav zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , German politician (born 1849 )
24 May – Georg von Neumayer , German polar explorer (born 1826 )[ 2]
3 June - Theodor Barth , German politician and publicis (born 1849 )
8 June – Fritz Overbeck , German painter (born 1869 )
3 July – Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel , German gynecologist (born 1862 )
13 October – Julius Ruthardt , German violinist and composer (born 1841 )
30 October – Leopold Sonnemann , German newspaper publisher (born 1831 )
16 December – Ludwig Friedländer , German philologist (born 1824 )
References
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