1887 in Germany

← 1886 1885 1884 1887 in Germany → 1888 1889 1890
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See also:	Other events of 1887 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1887 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser — William I
• Chancellor — Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia — Kaiser William I
• King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony
• King of Württemberg — Charles I of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden — Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse — Louis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin — Frederick Francis II
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg — Peter II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — Charles Alexander

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe — Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen — Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe — Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
• Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont — George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt — Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick — — Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) — Julius Freiherr von Soden (1st term) to 13 May, then Jesko von Puttkamer (1st term) to 4 October, then Eugen von Zimmerer (1st term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Karl Peters (administrator)
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Gustav von Oertzen (commissioner) to January; also Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
• Togoland — Ernst Falkenthal (commissioner) to May, then from July Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (1st term)
• Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Births

• 1 January — Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Abwehr (died 1945)
• 3 January — August Macke, German painter (died 1914)
• 2 June — Gottlieb Hering, Nazi concentration camp commandant (died in 1945)
• 28 December — Walter Ruttmann, German director (died 1941)

Deaths

• 17 October - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (born 1824)