• Source: 1898 in Germany

Events in the year 1898 in Germany.




Incumbents






= National level

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




= State level

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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 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 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) – Jesko von Puttkamer (5th term) to 12 January, then Theodor Seitz (2nd term) to 13 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (6th term) from 14 October
Kiautschou – Carl Rosendahl from 7 March
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Eduard von Liebert
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Hugo Skopnik (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein (Landeshauptleute to 18 April, then governor)
Togoland – August Köhler (Landeshauptleute to 18 April, then governor)




Events


28 March – The German Reichstag builds a battleship fleet from the Fleet Act, triggering an arms race at sea with the United Kingdom.
10 April _ 1898 Naval Law signed into German law.
30 April – The German Fleet Association is founded in Berlin to arouse popular understanding and interest in the Imperial Navy. The government favors the construction of battleships in the Reichsmarineamt under Alfred von Tirpitz.
5 June – Helvetia Berlin, association football club established.
16 June – German federal election, 1898
October 3–8 – The Stuttgart Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany is held in Stuttgart.
25 October _ WilheIm II voyages to the Levant.
Unknown date – An industrial robot and factory automation manufacturing brand KUKA was founded in Bavaria.




Births






Deaths


10 March – George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the Ashley Down orphanage (born 1805)
29 May – Theodor Eimer, German zoologist (born 1843)
30 July – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
20 September – Theodor Fontane, German writer (born 1819)
25 September – Hieronymous Theodor Richter, German chemist (born 1824)
29 December – Georg Goltermann, German cellist, conductor and composer (born 1824)




References

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