1918 in Germany

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Events in the year 1918 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

Head of State

• Kaiser - Wilhelm II, abdicated 9 November
• Republican (from 9 November) - vacant

Head of Government

• Chancellor (Imperial) - Georg von Hertling to 30 September, then from 3 October Prince Maximilian of Baden to 9 November
• Republican - from 9 November Friedrich Ebert, "Head of Government"

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria - Ludwig III of Bavaria abdicated 7 November
• King of Prussia - Kaiser Wilhelm II, abdicated 9 November
• King of Saxony - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, abdicated 13 November
• King of Württemberg - William II of Württemberg, abdicated 30 November

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden - Frederick II, abdicated 22 November
• Grand Duke of Hesse - Ernest Louis, abdicated 9 November
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Frederick Francis IV, abdicated 14 November
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz - Adolphus Frederick VI, died 23 November, thereafter vacant
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg - Frederick Augustus II, abdicated 11 November
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - William Ernest, abdicated 9 November

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe - Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, abdicated 15 November
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, abdicated 22 November
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, abdicated 22 November
• Principality of Lippe - Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, abdicated 12 November
• Reuss Elder Line - Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent), abdicated November
• Reuss Younger Line - Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, abdicated November
• Waldeck and Pyrmont - Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicated 13 November

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt - Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt to 21 April, then Eduard, Duke of Anhalt to 13 September, then Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (with Prince Aribert of Anhalt regent), abdicated 12 November
• Duke of Brunswick - Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, abdicated 8 November
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg - Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, abdicated 13 November
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, abdicated 14 November
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen - Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, abdicated 10 November

Colonial Governor

• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Heinrich Schnee to 14 November, although most of territory under Allied occupation.

Events

Kaiser abdicated and emigrated to the Netherlands

Births

• 22 September — Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (died 1943)
• 10 November - Ernst Otto Fischer, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2007)
• 23 December — Helmut Schmidt, German politician (died 2015)

Deaths

January

• 10 January - August Oetker, entrepreneur (born 1862)
• 6 January - Georg Cantor, mathematician (born 1845)

February

• 23 February — Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, nobleman (born 1882).

March

• 17 March - Hans Bethge (aviator)
• 30 March - Richard Beitzen

April

• 20 April - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (born 1850).
• 22 April — Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman (born 1856).
• 27 April - Oscar Troplowitz, German pharmacist and entrepreneur (born 1863).

July

• 9 July - Hans am Ende

August

• 22 August - Korbinian Brodmann, German neuroanatom and psychiater (born 1868)
• 30 August - Wilhelm Kühne

September

• 13 September — Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman (born 1861).

October

• 26 October - Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay

November

• 5 November Wolfgang Zenker
• 5 November Bruno Heinemann

References