1908 in Germany
Events in the year 1908 in Germany .
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Colonial Governors
Events
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 :
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 ^ Bohn, Robert (1995). "Otte, Carlo". In Dahl ; Hjeltnes ; Nøkleby ; Ringdal ; Sørensen (eds.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 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
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