Contents

• Incumbents
• National level
• State level
• Events
• Undated
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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← 1893 1892 1891 1894 in Germany → 1895 1896 1897
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See also:	Other events of 1894 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1894 in Germany.

Incumbents

Events

• 1 October – Leipziger Volkszeitung is first published.

Births

• 8 February – Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (died 1971)
• 26 February – Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (died 1979)
• 11 March – Otto Grotewohl, German politician (died 1964)
• 1 April – Eduard Wagner, German general (died 1944)
• 11 April – Fritz Lindemann, German officer (died 1944)
• 14 April – Fritz Thiele, German member of the German resistance who served as the communications chief of the German Army (died 1944)
• 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
• 19 May – Heinz Ziegler, German general (died 1972)
• 30 July – Gerda Müller, German actress (died 1951)
• 17 August – Otto Suhr, German politician (died 1957)
• 19 August – Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest (died 1944)
• 20 August – Josef Straßberger, German weightlifter (died 1950)
• 6 September – Carl Grossberg, German painter (died 1940)
• 12 September – Friedrich Ebert Jr., German politician (died 1979)
• 15 September – Herbert Windt, German composer (died 1965)
• 14 October – Heinrich Lübke, German politician (died 1972)
• 2 November – Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer, pioneer of aerodynamics (died 1976)
• 19 November – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (died 1971)
• 17 December – Hans Henny Jahnn, German playwright and novelist (died 1959)
• 19 December – Paul Dessau, German conductor and composer (died 1979)
• 21 December – Gustav Ehrhart, German chemist (died 1971)

Deaths

• 1 January – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (born 1857)
• 11 January:
  • Wilhelm von Freeden, German mathematician (born 1822)
  • Joseph Weyland, German bishop of Roman Catholic Church (born 1826)
• 12 February – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer (born 1830)
• 20 February – Georg Albert Lücke, German surgeon (born 1829)
• 11 April – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (born 1832)
• 21 May – August Kundt, German physicist (born 1839)
• 8 September – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (born 1821)
• 17 October – Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (born 1820)

References