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Decades:

Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II^[1]
Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow^[2]

State level

Kingdoms

King of Bavaria – Otto
King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
King of Saxony – Albert to 19 June, then George
King of Württemberg – William II

Grand duchies

Principalities

Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz to 19 April, then Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

Colonial governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Jesko von Puttkamer (7th term) to 3 February, then … Plehn (acting governor) to 2 October, then again Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Gustav Adolf von Götzen
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (acting governor to 10 November) (2nd term)
German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Leutwein
Togoland – August Köhler to 20 January, then vacant to 1 December, then Waldemar Horn

Events

December–February 1903 – Venezuelan crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims. This prompts the development of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

Births

6 January – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (died 1994)^[3]
17 January – Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (died 1986)^[4]
30 January – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British architectural historian (died 1983)
1 February – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard and war criminal (d. 1948)
5 February – Paul Nevermann, German politician (died 1979)
7 March – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994)^[5]
18 March – Siegfried Westphal, German general (died 1982)
21 March – Gustav Fröhlich, German actor (died 1987)
2 April – Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)^[6]
2 August – Moshe Rudolf Bloch German-born Israeli scientist (died 1985)
13 August – Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)^[7]
10 July – Kurt Alder, German chemist (died 1958)
12 August – Franz Etzel, German politician (died 1970)
22 August – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer. (died 2003)
5 September – Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot (died 1944)
21 October – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1990)
1 November – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)^[8]
4 November – Otto Bayer, German chemist (died 1982)^[9]
22 November – Moshe Unna, German-born Israeli politician (died 1989)
21 December – Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime (died 1944)

Deaths

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7 January – Wilhelm Hertz, writer (born 1835)
March 11 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (born 1821)
April 5 - Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)
April 19
- Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss (Reuss Elder Line) of Greiz (born 1846)
- Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (born 1850)
19 June – Albert, King of Saxony, (born 1828)
5 September – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician (born 1821)
26 September – Levi Strauss, German-born American businessman, founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. (born 1829)
7 September – Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (born 1832)
25 November – Ernst Schröder, mathematician mainly known for being a major figure in mathematical logic (born 1841)

References

^ "William II | emperor of Germany | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
^ "GERMANY'S CHANCELLOR". West Gippsland Gazette. No. 197. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1902. p. 4 (MORNING.). Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, "Helmut Poppendick Affidavit, 14 January 1947", Harvard Law School Library Item No. 849. Archived 25 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ National Archives (2001). The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force: 1933-1945. London: Public Record Office. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-903365-30-4.
^ Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 149.
^ Tschichold, Jan (1982). Jan Tschichold, typographer and type designer, 1902-1974. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9780902220539.
^ Laporte, Leo (2005). Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac. Indianapolis, Ind: Que. p. 263. ISBN 9780789733191.
^ Sandford, John (1999). Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. London New York: Routledge. p. 323. ISBN 9781136816031.
^ Who's who in Technology. Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien. 1984. p. 154.

v t e Years in Germany (1871–present)
19th century	Pre-1871 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

v t e 1902 in Europe
Sovereign states	Andorra Austria-Hungary Baden Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Portugal Prussia Romania Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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