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Events in the year1896 inGermany.

• Kaiser –Wilhelm II
• Chancellor –Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

• King of Bavaria –Otto
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony –Albert
• King of Württemberg –William II

• Grand Duke of Baden –Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse –Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin –Frederick Francis III
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz –Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg –Peter II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach –Charles Alexander

• Schaumburg-Lippe –George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt –Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen –Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe –Alexander, Prince of Lippe (withPrince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe as regent)
• Reuss Elder Line –Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
• Reuss Younger Line –Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont –Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

• Duke of Anhalt –Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick –Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg –Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha –Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen –Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

• Cameroon (Kamerun) –Theodor Seitz(2nd term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) –Hermann Wissmann to 3 December, thenEduard von Liebert
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) –Hugo Rüdiger to 17 August, then from 22 SeptemberCurt von Hagen(bothLandeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) –Theodor Leutwein(Landeshauptleute)
• Togoland –August Köhler(Landeshauptleute)

• 12 April – German football clubHannover 96 is founded.
• 1 June –Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung in Berlin is opened.

• Gottlieb Daimler produces the first gasolinetruck.
• Emperor William Monument inPorta Westfalica is completed.
• German physicistWilhelm Wien derives theWien approximation.

• 11 January –Heinrich Stuhlfauth, German football player and goalkeeper (died1966)
• 4 February –Friedrich Hund, German physicist (died1997)
• 9 February –Erich Vagts, German politician (died1980)
• 14 February –Werner Richard Heymann, German film composer (died1961)
• 23 February –Herbert Weichmann, German politician (died1983)
• 25 February –Ida Noddack, German chemist (died1978)
• 2 March –Caesar von Hofacker, German colonel (died1944)
• 22 March –Karl Dannemann, German actor (died1945)
• 1 April –Wilhelm Sauter, German painter (died1948)
• 13 May –Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died1967)
• 20 May –Paul Kemp, German actor (died1953)
• 9 June –Karl Sack, German jurist (died1945)
• 16 July –Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German physician (died1969)
• 23 July –Reinhold Frank, German lawyer (died1945)
• 19 August –Josef Kammhuber, German general (died1986)
• 23 August –Hubert von Meyerinck, German actor (died1971)
• 15 September –Theodor Haubach, German journalist (died1945)
• 14 October –Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police officer and politician (died1944)
• 18 October –Friedrich Hollaender, German film composer and author (died1976)
• 30 October –Roma Bahn, German actress (died1975)
• 9 November –Hellmut von der Chevallerie, German general (died1965)
• 28 November –Otto Graf, German actor (died1977)
• 3 December –Carlo Schmid, German politician (died1979)
• 18 December –Hans Otto Erdmann, German officer (died1944)
• 27 December –Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died1977)
• 31 December –Carl Ludwig Siegel, German mathematician (died1981)

• 29 February –Albrecht von Stosch, German admiral (born1818)
• 28 April –Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian (born1834)
• 18 May –Otto von Camphausen, German politician (born1812)
• 20 May –Clara Schumann, German musician and composer (born1819)
• 2 June –Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, German geographer, explorer and author (born1831)
• 11 July –Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (born1814)
• 13 July –August Kekulé, German chemist (born1829)
• 10 August –Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of aviation (born1848)
• 13 August –Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, German mathematician (born1821)
• 22 October –Christian Roos, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born1826)
• 3 November –Eugen Baumann, German chemist (born1846)
• 19 November –Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician (born1837)
• December –Bianka Blume, German opera singer (born1843).^[1]
• 17 December –Paul Beiersdorf, German pharmacist (born1836)
• 26 December — Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist (born1818)

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