1895 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
• Chancellor – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

  State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg

  Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis III
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

  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 – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe to 20 March, then Alexander, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

  Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Prince Albert of Prussia
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

  Colonial Governors

• Cameroon – Jesko von Puttkamer ' to 27 March, then...von Lücke to 4 May, then again Jesko von Puttkamer ' to 26 October, then from 27 October Theodor Seitz '
• German East Africa – Friedrich Radbod Freiher von Schele to 25 April, then Hermann Wissmann
• German New Guinea – Gerog Schmiele to 3 March, then Hugo Rüdiger '
• German South-West Africa – Theodor Leutwein '
• Togoland – Jesko von Puttkamer ' ' to 13 August, then vacant to 18 November, then August Köhler '

  Events

• 5 May – German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf is founded.
• 8 November – Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
• 15 December – German football club Eintracht Braunschweig is founded.

  Undated

• Hermann Emil Fischer and Arthur Speier first describe Fischer–Speier esterification.
• Wilhelm Emil Fein invents the electrically-driven hand drill.
• Carl von Linde files for patent of the Linde cycle.

  Births

• 20 January – Walter Bock, German chemist
• 14 February – Max Horkheimer German philosopher and sociologist
• 15 February – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general
• 7 March – Werner Schrader, German officer
• 29 March – Ernst Jünger, German author
• 7 April:
• *Margarete Schön, German actress
• *Theodor Strünck, German lawyer
• 15 June – Paul Giesler, German politician
• 6 July – Ernst Langlotz, German archaeologist
• 10 July – Carl Orff, German composer
• 9 August – Franz Schafheitlin, German actor
• 13 August – Werner Dankwort, German diplomat
• 26 August – Harald Paulsen, German actor
• 31 August – Karl Fiehler, German politician
• 6 September – Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer, leader of the V-2 rocket programme
• 15 September – Hildebrand Gurlitt, German art dealer, art historian and war profiteer
• 25 September – Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter
• 5 October – Ludwig Gehre, German officer
• 10 October – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal
• 13 October – Kurt Schumacher, German politician
• 26 October – Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött, German politician
• 30 October – Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist
• 16 November – Paul Hindemith, German composer and conductor
• 23 November – Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge
• 2 December – Erwin Casmir, fencer
• 29 December – Oswald Freisler, lawyer

  Deaths

• 13 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist
• 20 March – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, nobleman
• 31 March – Georg von Dollmann, German architect
• 11 April – Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist
• 23 April – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist
• 30 April – Gustav Freytag, German playwright
• 23 May – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician
• 2 June – Heinrich von Friedberg, German politician
• 30 June – Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist
• 14 July – Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German writer
• 1 August – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian
• 5 August – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher, social scientist and journalist
• 28 August – Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Prussian princess
• 8 September – Adam Opel, German founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG
• 24 September – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon
• 8 November – Johannes Overbeck, German archaeologist
• 11 November – Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher
• 14 December – Paul Melchers, German cardinal of Roman-Catholic Church