1881 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1881; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1881 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Events

31 March – last Anti-Socicalist Law is passed by the German Reichstag.
16 May – Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, world's first electric tramway, starts in Berlin.
25 September – in Meckesheim physician Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer performs the first modern Caesarean section, the transverse incision technique to minimise bleeding.
27 October – German federal election, 1881

Births

1 January – Hermann Schmitz, German industrialist (died 1960)
4 January – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (died 1919)^[1]
17 January – Karl Scharnagl, German politician (died 1963)
16 February – Hans Vogel, German politician (died 1945)
16 February – Hans Meiser, German Protestant theologian, pastor and first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (died 1956)
23 March – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (died 1965)^[2]
1 April – Wilhelm Sollmann, German journalist and politician (died 1951)
3 April – Hans Kniep, German botanist (died 1930)
19 April – Ernst Schneppenhorst, German politician (died 1945)
2 May – Ernst Legal, German actor (died 1955)
18 May – Erwin Madelung, German mathematician (died 1972)
30 May – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (died 1968)
31 May – Heinrich Burger, German figure skater (died 1942)
9 June – Felix von Luckner, German author, sailor and nobleman (died 1966)
24 June – Heinz Tietjen, German conductor (died 1967)
29 June – Gottlob Walz, German diver (died 1943)
27 July – Hans Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)^[3]
28 July – Günther Quandt, German industrialist (died 1954)
8 August – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (died 1954)
26 August – Franz Gürtner, German jurist and politician (died 1941)
4 October – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (died 1948)
9 October – Friedrich Syrup, German politician (died 1945)
12 November – Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat (died 1944)
12 November – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (died 1954)
2 December – Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist (died 1956)
4 December – Erwin von Witzleben, German officer (died 1944)
15 December – Eugen Bolz, German politician (died 1945)^[4]
25 December – Christian Hülsmeyer, German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur (died 1957)
31 December – Max Pechstein, German painter (died 1955)

Deaths

7 April – Johann Hinrich Wichern, German religious leader (born 1808)
15 May – Franz von Dingelstedt, German poet and dramatist (born 1814)
2 June – Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg, German diplomat (born 1815)
23 June – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (born 1804)
10 July – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (born 1812)
11 October – Friedrich Hitzig, German architect (born 1811)^[5]

References

^ "Wilhelm Lehmbruck". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "Hermann Staudinger". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "Hans Fischer". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "Eugen Bolz" (in German). German Resistance Memorial Center. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ "Friedrich Hitzig" (in German). Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[1] "Wilhelm Lehmbruck". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[2] "Hermann Staudinger". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[3] "Hans Fischer". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[4] "Eugen Bolz" (in German). German Resistance Memorial Center. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

[5] "Friedrich Hitzig" (in German). Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Retrieved 27 February 2024.

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