1913 in Germany

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Events in the year 1913 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser - Wilhelm II
• Chancellor - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria - Otto of Bavaria to 5 November, then 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 V
• 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 XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line to 29 March, then 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 - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent) to 1 November, then Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November
• 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 - Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) — Karl Ebermaier (1st term) to 9 October, then ... Full
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) — Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Albert Heinrich Schnee
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Albert Hahl (2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) — Erich Schultz-Ewerth
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Seitz
• Togoland — Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

Events

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1913 Lloyd Wagen advertisement, Bremen

• May 16 – Eberswalde Hoard discovered
• June 20 – Bremen school shooting causes the death of five pupils and the wounding of more than 20 other people
• September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
• October 17 – Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board

Births

• 27 April — Luz Long, German long jump athlete (died 1943)
• 31 May - Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian (died 1979)
• 10 June — Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist (died 1993)
• 4 August — Johann Niemann, SS officer (died 1943)
• 10 August - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
• 8 November - Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer (died 2003)
• 18 December - Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1992)
• 25 December — Henri Nannen, German journalist (died 1996)

Deaths

• 29 March — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman (born 1832)
• 19 April - Hugo Winckler, archaeologist (born 1863)
• 29 May — Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector
• 13 August - August Bebel, politician (born 1840)
• 29 September - Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor (born 1858)
• 22 December — Theodor Kaes, neurologist