1889 in Germany

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See also:	Other events of 1889 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1889 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser — Wilhelm II
• Chancellor — Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia — Kaiser Wilhelm II
• 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 III
• 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 — Karl Günther, 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 (2nd term) to 26 December, then Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term)
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Reinhold Kraetke (Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company) to 31 October, then Fritz Rose (acting commissioner) from 1 November
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
• Togoland — Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
• Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)

Births

• February 11 -Rudolf Bauer, German painter (died 1953)
• April 20 - Adolf Hitler - German dictator and politician (died 1945)
• April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein - German philosoph (died 1951)
• May 12 - Otto Frank - German businessman (died 1980)
• June 11 - Otto Dessloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general (died 1977)
• July 8 - Hans Felber, German infantry general (died 1962)
• September 26 - Martin Heidegger, German philosoph (died 1976)
• October 3 - Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pazifist (died 1938)
• October 7
  • Erich Büttner (died 1936)
  • Hans Tropsch, German chemist (died 1935)
• November 30 -Hans Bischoff - German entomologist (died 1960)
• December 24 - Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt a World War I flying ace (died 1962)

Deaths

• December 27 - Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, apothecary and industrialist (born 1824)