1918 in Germany
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Events in the year 1918 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
Head of State
- Kaiser – Wilhelm II, abdicated 9 November
- Republican (from 9 November) – vacant
Head of Government
- Chancellor (Imperial) - Georg von Hertling to 30 September, then from 3 October Prince Maximilian of Baden to 9 November
- Republican – from 9 November Friedrich Ebert, "Head of Government"
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig III of Bavaria abdicated 7 November
- King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II, abdicated 9 November
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, abdicated 13 November
- King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg, abdicated 30 November
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II, abdicated 22 November
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis, abdicated 9 November
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Frederick Francis IV, abdicated 14 November
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick VI, died 23 November, thereafter vacant
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II, abdicated 11 November
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest, abdicated 9 November
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, abdicated 15 November
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, abdicated 22 November
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, abdicated 22 November
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, abdicated 12 November
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent), abdicated November
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, abdicated November
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicated 13 November
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt to 21 April, then Eduard, Duke of Anhalt to 13 September, then Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (with Prince Aribert of Anhalt regent), abdicated 12 November
- Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, abdicated 8 November
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, abdicated 13 November
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, abdicated 14 November
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, abdicated 10 November
Colonial Governor
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Heinrich Schnee to 14 November, although most of territory under Allied occupation.
Events
October
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany appoints Max von Baden Chancellor of Germany.
- King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.
- 4 October
- Wilhelm II of Germany forms a new more liberal government to sue for peace.
November
- 3 November
- German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.
- 9 November
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.
- Proclamation of German Republic by Philipp Scheidemann in Berlin on the Reichstag balcony.
November 11: Signatories to the Armistice with Germany (Compiègne), ending WWI, pose outside Marshal Foch's railway carriage
November 11: Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day
Births
- 22 September – Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (died 1943)
- 10 November – Ernst Otto Fischer, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2007)
- 23 December – Helmut Schmidt, German politician (died 2015)
Deaths
January
- 6 January – Georg Cantor, mathematician (born 1845)
- 7 January – Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (born 1844)
- 10 January – August Oetker, entrepreneur (born 1862)
February
- 23 February – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, nobleman (born 1882)
March
- 17 March – Hans Bethge, German World War I flying ace (born 1890)
- 30 March – Richard Beitzen, German World War I naval officer (born 1882)
April
- 20 April – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (born 1850)
- 22 April – Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman (born 1856)
- 27 April – Oscar Troplowitz, German pharmacist and entrepreneur (born 1863)
July
- 9 July – Hans am Ende, German Impressionist painter (born 1864)
August
- 22 August – Korbinian Brodmann, German neuroanatom and psychiater (born 1868)
- 30 August – Wilhelm Kühne, German World War I flying ace (born 1888)
September
- 13 September – Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman (born 1861).
October
- 18 October – Fritz Otto Brenert, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- 26 October – Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay, German World War I flying ace (born 1898)
November
- 5 November:
- Wolfgang Zenker, German World War I naval officer (born 1898)
- Bruno Heinemann, German World War I naval officer (born 1880)
References
- Pitt, Barrie (2003). 1918: The Last Act. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 0-85052-974-3.
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