- Source: 1897 in Germany
Events in the year 1897 in Germany.
Incumbents
= National level
=Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
= State level
=Kingdoms
King of Bavaria – Otto
King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
King of Saxony – Albert
King of Württemberg – William II
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis III to 10 April, then Frederick Francis IV
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander
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 Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe to 17 July, then Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 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
Duchies
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
Colonial Governors
Cameroon (Kamerun) – Theodor Seitz (2nd term) to 10 September, then Jesko von Puttkamer (5th term) from 11 September
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Curt von Hagen to 13 August, then Albert Hahl (acting) (1st term) to 11 September, then Hugo Skopnik (all Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute)
Togoland – August Köhler (Landeshauptleute)
Events
10 May – The Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB) is passed by the Reichtstag. The HGB will come into force together with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) on 1 January 1900.
10 August – Rudolf Diesel builds his first working prototype Diesel engine in Augsburg.
10 October – Chemists working at Bayer AG create a synthetically altered version of salicin which the company names Aspirin.
= Undated
=David Hilbert unifies the field of algebraic number theory with his treatise Zahlbericht.
The Daimler Victoria—the world's first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897.
Births
Deaths
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kopi robusta
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Pavel Alexeyevich Belov
- Perang Dunia I
- Bernhard von Bülow
- Daftar Kanselir Jerman
- Kempinski
- Plaek Pibulsonggram
- Mobil listrik
- Ludwig Erhard
- 1897 in Germany
- 1897
- Weltpolitik
- List of German postal ministers
- Winchester Model 1897
- Zionist Federation of Germany
- List of former German colonies
- List of German finance ministers
- Russian Empire census
- Demographics of Germany
