Events in the year 1908 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level Emperor – Wilhelm II Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow
State level
Kingdoms King of Bavaria – Otto King of Prussia – Wilhelm II King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III King of Württemberg – William II
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe 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 Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt Duke of Brunswick – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent) Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg to 7 February, then Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors Cameroon (Kamerun) – Theodor Seitz (3rd term) Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term) German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Bruno von Schuckmann Togoland – Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen
Events
8 July – The paper coffee filter, created by German housewife Melitta Bentz, is patented. 28 October – Daily Telegraph Affair: a British newspaper publishes undiplomatic remarks made by Emperor Wilhelm. date unknown German association football club BFC Nord 08 Berlin is founded.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. . Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff is appointed German ambassador to the United States.
Births
26 January – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (died 2009) 27 January – Trude Eipperle, German operatic soprano (died 1997)Eipperle, Trude, in: Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, S. 132 (in German) 4 February – Heinz Pollay, German equestrian (died 1979) 10 February – Alfred Kranzfelder, German naval officer (died 1945) 25 February – Karl Heinz Stroux, German actor, film- and theatredirector (died 1985) 2 March – Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (died 1990) 7 March – Inge Viermetz, German official and defendant at the Nuremberg Trials (date of death unknown) 12 March – Kurt Stöpel, German bicycle racer (died 1997) 17 March – Brigitte Helm, German film actress (died 1996 in Switzerland) 25 March – Helmut Käutner, German film director (died 1980) 26 March – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (died 1981) 15 April – Richard Löwenthal, German author and journalist (died 1991) 19 April – Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (died 1968) 5 May – Kurt Böhme, German bass (died 1989) 7 May – Max Grundig, German entrepreneur (died 1989) 19 May – Rolf Dahlgrün, German politician (died 1969) 20 May – Carlo Otte, Nazi administrator 22 May – Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player (died 1985) 11 June – Karl Hein German athlete (died 1982) 24 June – Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942) 31 July – Franz Meyers, German politician (died 2002) 4 August – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994) 10 August – Hanan Rubin, German-born Israeli politician (died 1962) 18 August – Heinrich Hellwege, German politician (died 1991) 27 August – Karl Ernst Rahtgens, German officer (died 1944) 20 September – Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1982) 22 September – Fritz Gunst, German water polo player (died 1992) 9 October – Werner von Haeften, Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot (died 1944) 12 October – Georg Henneberg, German physician (died 1996) 14 October – Rudolf Ismayr, German weightlifter (died 1998) 25 October – Gotthard Handrick, German athlete and fighter pilot (died 1978) 26 October – Richard Häussler, German actor (died 1964) 11 November – Martin Held, German actor (died 1992) 20 November – Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1968) 21 November – Franz Pfnür, German alpine skier (died 1996)
Deaths
5 January – Joseph von Mering, German physician (born 1849) 9 January – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832) 22 January – August Wilhelmj, German violinist (born 1845) 7 February – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, nobleman (born 1826) 24 March – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (born 1821) 27 March – Johann Georg Mönckeberg, politician (born 1839) 26 April – Karl Möbius, German zoologist (born 1825) 17 May: Jacques Blumenthal, German pianist and composer (born 1829) Carl Koldewey, German Arctic explorer (born 1837) 4 June – Hermann von der Hude, German architect (born 1830) 13 June – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1828) 10 July – Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, German botanist (born 1817) 29 July – Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch, German sculptor (born 1856) 3 November – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861) 20 November – Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (born 1829)
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