1904 in Germany
Events in the year 1904 in Germany .
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand duchies
Principalities
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 (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld to 26 September, and then Leopold, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld , as regents)
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
Duchies
Colonial governors
Events
Architecture
Arts
Commerce
Diplomacy
Science
Sport
Other
Transport
Ships launched
Publications
Drama
Non–fiction
Births
2 January – Walter Heitler , physicist
8 January – Karl Brandt , Nazi physician
9 January – Wilhelm Groth , physical chemist
29 January – Arnold Gehlen , German philosopher (died 1976 )[ 6]
18 February – Otto Rahn , medievalist and SS officer (died 1939 )[ 7]
22 February – Ernst Jakob Henne , racing driver (died 2005 )[ 8]
28 February – Alfred Bohrmann , astronomer
5 March – Karl Rahner , theologian
7 March – Reinhard Heydrich , chief of the RSHA (died 1942 )[ 9]
7 March – Kurt Weitzmann , art historian[ 10]
10 March – Adalbert Schneider , Navy officer
11 March – Albrecht von Hagen , Resistance fighter
12 March – Adolf Arndt , politician
21 March – Karl Leonhard , psychiatrist
24 March – Hans Ertel , natural scientist
26 March – Hermann Schroeder , composer
6 April – Kurt Georg Kiesinger , Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (died 1988 )[ 11]
12 April – Paul Dahlke , actor
15 April – Valentin Krempl , bobsledder
17 April – Franz Reuß , Luftwaffe general
27 April – Fritz Weitzel , SS officer
28 April – Elisabeth Schumacher , Resistance fighter
4 May – Josef Pieper , philosopher
8 May – Franz Schreiber , SS officer
9 May – Reinhard Schwarz–Schilling , composer
23 May – Johannes Flintrop , critic of Nazism
7 June – Werner Gruner , German weapons designer (died 1995 )
14 June – Marion Yorck von Wartenburg , jurist and Resistance fighter (died 2007 )
20 June – Heinrich von Brentano , politician (died 1964 )[ 12]
9 July – Ernst Küppers , swimmer
14 July – Hans von Herwarth , diplomat
15 July – Rudolf Arnheim , film theorist
2 August – Werner Seelenbinder , wrestler and communist
9 August – Hasso von Boehmer , Army officer
10 August – Karl Helling , chess master
16 August – Klaus von Pape , Nazi 'martyr'
24 August – Ludwig Schmidseder , composer and pianist
29 August – Werner Forssmann , physician and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate
30 August – Friedrich von Mellenthin , Army general
1 September – Karl Ernst , Sturmabteilung leader
8 September – Karl Hessenberg , mathematician
14 September – Walter Meyer , rower
3 October – Ernst–Günther Schenck , SS officer
21 October – Basilea Schlink , founder and leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
23 October – Maximilien de Furstenberg , Roman Catholic cardinal
12 November – Edmund Veesenmayer , Nazi politician
13 November – Günter Reimann , communist activist
13 November – Peter Yorck von Wartenburg , jurist and Resistance fighter
26 November – Bernhard Krüger , SS officer
11 December – Felix Nussbaum , surrealist painter
17 December – Josef–Franz Eckinger , Army officer
30 December – Edith Schultze–Westrum , actress
Date unknown – Heinz Kloss , linguist
Date unknown – Wolfgang Stresemann , orchestra leader
Deaths
4 January – Friedrich Jolly , neurologist
5 January – Karl Alfred von Zittel , palaeontologist
6 January – Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck , electrical engineer
10 January – Christian August Friedrich Garcke , botanist
20 January – Albert von Maybach , railway manager
24 January – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt , nobleman
24 February – Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron , Prussian general
5 March – Alfred von Waldersee , Field Marshal
22 March – Karl Moritz Schumann , botanist
1 April – Otto von Böhtlingk , Indologist
6 May – Franz von Lenbach , painter
21 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg , nobleman
24 May – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg , noblewoman
30 May – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg–Strelitz , nobleman
5 July – Franz Martin Hilgendorf , zoologist
4 August – Christoph von Sigwart , philosopher
5 August – Karl Weigert , pathologist
9 August – Friedrich Ratzel , geographer
26 August – Franz Riegel , internist
3 September – Heinrich Koebner , dermatologist
18 September – Herbert von Bismarck , politician
26 September – Ernest II, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld , nobleman, regent of the Principality of Lippe
8 October – Clemens Winkler , chemist who discovered germanium
15 October – George , King of Saxony
29 October – Emil Schlagintweit , scholar of Tibetan Buddhism
10 November – Alphons Stübel , geologist and vulcanologist
19 November – Hans von Hopfen , writer
2 December – Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern–Sigmaringen , nobleman
20 December – Alexandrine of Baden (1820–1904) , noblewoman
25 December – Guido Bodländer , chemist
Date unknown
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