1916 in Germany
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Events in the year 1916 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig III of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
- King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg
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 VI
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, 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 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier (2nd and final term) (formally, although territory under British/French occupation)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee
Events
Births
- 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer (died 1981)
- 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor (died 2000)
- 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer (died (died 1943)
- 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor (died 1977)
- 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur (died 2007)
Deaths
- 12 February – Richard Dedekind, mathematician (born 1831)
- 4 March – Franz Marc, painter (born 1880)
- 11 May:
- Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor (born 1873)
- Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (born 1873)
- 13 July – Josef Rieder (cyclist)
- 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman (born 1848).
- 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (born 1884
- 4 December – Hans Schilling (aviator), aviator (born 1892
- 19 December – Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, industrialist and nobleman (born 1830)
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