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Events in the year 1908 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Events

8 July – The paper coffee filter, created by German housewife Melitta Bentz, is patented.^[1]
28 October – Daily Telegraph Affair: a British newspaper publishes undiplomatic remarks made by Emperor Wilhelm.
date unknown
- German association football club BFC Nord 08 Berlin is founded.^[2]
- Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff is appointed German ambassador to the United States.

Births

26 January – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (died 2009)^[3]
27 January – Trude Eipperle, German operatic soprano (died 1997)^[4]
4 February – Heinz Pollay, German equestrian (died 1979)
10 February – Alfred Kranzfelder, German naval officer (died 1945)
25 February – Karl Heinz Stroux, German actor, film- and theatredirector (died 1985)
2 March – Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (died 1990)
7 March – Inge Viermetz, German official and defendant at the Nuremberg Trials (date of death unknown)
12 March – Kurt Stöpel, German bicycle racer (died 1997)
25 March – Helmut Käutner, German film director (died 1980)
26 March – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (died 1981)
15 April – Richard Löwenthal, German author and journalist (died 1991)
19 April – Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (died 1968)
7 May – Max Grundig, German entrepreneur (died 1989)
19 May – Rolf Dahlgrün, German politician (died 1969)
20 May – Carlo Otte, Nazi administrator^[5]^[6]
22 May – Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player (died 1985)
11 June – Karl Hein German athlete (died 1982)
24 June – Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
31 July – Franz Meyers, German politician (died 2002)
10 August – Hanan Rubin, German-born Israeli politician (died 1962)
18 August – Heinrich Hellwege, German politician (died 1991)
27 August – Karl Ernst Rahtgens, German officer (died 1944)
22 September – Fritz Gunst, German water polo player (died 1992)
9 October – Werner von Haeften, Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot (died 1944)
12 October – Georg Henneberg, German physician (died 1996)
14 October – Rudolf Ismayr, German weightlifter (died 1998)
25 October – Gotthard Handrick, German athlete and fighter pilot (died 1978)
26 October – Richard Häussler, German actor (died 1964)
11 November – Martin Held, German actor (died 1992)
20 November – Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1968)
21 November – Franz Pfnür, German alpine skier (died 1996)

Deaths

5 January – Joseph von Mering, German physician (born 1849)
9 January – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832)^[7]
22 January – August Wilhelmj, German violinist (born 1845)^[8]
7 February – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, nobleman (born 1826)
24 March – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (born 1821)
27 March – Johann Georg Mönckeberg, politician (born 1839)
26 April – Karl Möbius, German zoologist (born 1825)^[9]
17 May:
- Jacques Blumenthal, German pianist and composer (born 1829)
- Carl Koldewey, German Arctic explorer (born 1837)^[10]
4 June – Hermann von der Hude, German architect (born 1830)
13 June – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1828)
10 July – Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, German botanist (born 1817)
29 July – Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch, German sculptor (born 1856)
3 November – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861)^[11]
20 November – Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (born 1829)^[12]

References

^ "Melitta Bentz, mother of filter coffee: inventor and entrepreneur". German Patent and Trade Mark Office. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^ Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kassel: Agon-Sportverlag. ISBN 978-3-89784-147-5.
^ Eugene, Frank (1995). Frank Eugene, the dream of beauty. Munich: Nazraeli Press. p. 289. ISBN 9783923922338.
^ Eipperle, Trude, in: Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, S. 132 (in German)
^ Bohn, Robert (1995). "Otte, Carlo". In Dahl; Hjeltnes; Nøkleby; Ringdal; Sørensen (eds.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 320. ISBN 82-02-14138-9.
^ "Numero czlonkow SS od 24 000 do 24 999". www.dws-xip.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 July 2016.
^ Lotze, Dieter (1979). Wilhelm Busch. Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 21. ISBN 9780805763652.
^ Duncan Druce. "August Wilhelmj". CHASE: Collection of Historical Annotated String Editions. University of Leeds School of Music. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
^ Redi, Carlo (2000). Visual zoology: the Pavia collection of Leuckart's zoological wall charts (1877. Como: Ibis. p. 69. ISBN 9788871641300.
^ "Obituary". The Geographical Journal. Royal Geographical Society: 191. 1908.
^ "Obituary". The Building News and Engineering Journal. 95. Office for Publication and Advertisements: 676. 6 November 1908.
^ Clive, H. P. (2006). Brahms and His World: a Biographical Dictionary. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 105. ISBN 9781461722809.