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
Republic (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
Republic – from 9 November Friedrich Ebert, "Head of Government"

State level

Kingdoms

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

Colonial Governor

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

Events

February

Date unknown - Arthur Scherbius applies to patent the Enigma machine.

October

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany appoints Max von Baden Chancellor of Germany.
- King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, Boris III.
4 October
- Wilhelm II of Germany forms a new more liberal government to sue for peace.

November

3 November
- German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny, and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.
9 November
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.
- Proclamation of German Republic by Philipp Scheidemann in Berlin on the Reichstag balcony.

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11 November
- End of WWI and Armistice with Germany (Compiègne): Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5:12 AM and 5:20 AM in Marshal Foch's railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.^[1]

Born

10 January - Harry Merkel, German racing driver (died 1995)
1 March - Franz Becker, German footballer (died 1965)
3 March - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (died 2000)
20 March - Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (died 1970)
28 April - Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, German journalist (died 2001)
24 May - Katharina Szelinski-Singer, German sculptor (died 2010)
1 August - Artur Brauner, German film producer (died 2019)
4 August - Claus Holm, German actor (died 1996)
22 September – Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member (died 1943)
10 October - Werner Dollinger, German politician (died 2008)
20 October - Werner Maihofer, German jurist and politician (died 2009)
26 October - Dietrich von Bothmer, German art historian (died 2009)
5 November - Gisela Arendt, German swimmer (died 1969)
8 November - Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer and calligrapher (died 2015)
10 November – Ernst Otto Fischer, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2007)
23 December – Helmut Schmidt, German politician (died 2015)

Deaths

January

6 January – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (born 1845)
7 January – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (born 1844)
9 January – Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1887)
10 January – August Oetker, German entrepreneur (born 1862)
21 January – Emil Jellinek, German automobile entrepreneur (born 1853)

February

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

March

9 March – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (born 1864)
10 March
- Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German flying ace (killed in action) (born 1890)
- Eugen von Zimmerer, German prosecutor, attorney and (born 1843)
15 March – Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1891)
17 March – Hans Bethge, German World War I flying ace (born 1890)
30 March – Richard Beitzen, German World War I naval officer (born 1882)

April

4 April – Hermann Cohen, German philosopher (born 1842)
20 April – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (born 1850)
21 April
- Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (born 1856)
- Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (born 1892)
27 April – Oscar Troplowitz, German pharmacist and entrepreneur (born 1863)

May

14 May - Max Wilms, German surgeon and physician (born 1867)
28 May - Richard Assmann, German meteorologist and physician (born 1845)

June

24 June - Julius Kollmann, German anatomist and zoologist (born 1834)

July

7 July - Arno Bieberstein, German swimmer (born 1884)
9 July – Hans am Ende, German Impressionist painter (born 1864)

August

22 August – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1868)
30 August – Wilhelm Kühne, German World War I flying ace (born 1888)

September

10 September - Carl Peters, German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author (born 1856)
13 September – Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman (born 1861).
23 September - Georg Theodor August Gaffky, German bacteriologist (born 1850)
28 September - Georg Simmel, German philosopher and sociologist (born 1858)

October

9 October - Hanns Braun, German athlete (born 1886)
18 October – Fritz Otto Brenert, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
26 October – Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay, German World War I flying ace (born 1898)

November

4 November - Hans Graf von Schwerin-Löwitz, German politician (born 1847)
5 November:
- Wolfgang Zenker, German World War I naval officer (born 1898)
- Bruno Heinemann, German World War I naval officer (born 1880)
9 November - Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate (born 1857)
23 November - Fritz von Below, German general (born 1853)
22 December – Hermann Theodor Simon, German physicist (born 1870)

References

↑ Pitt, Barrie (2003). 1918: The Last Act. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 0-85052-974-3.

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