1907 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Bernhard von Bülow

  State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg

  Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I then Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

  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 – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, 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 II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – vacant to 28 May, then Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

  Colonial Governors

• Cameroon – Otto Gleim ' ' to 1 July, then Theodor Seitz '
• Kiaochow – Oskar von Truppel
• German East Africa – Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
• German New Guinea – Albert Hahl '
• German Samoa – Wilhelm Solf
• German South-West Africa – Friedrich von Lindequist to 20 May, then Bruno von Schuckmann
• Togoland – Johann Nepomuk Graf Zech auf Neuhofen

  Events

• 25 January – The 'Hottentot election', so called because of the nationalist atmosphere whipped up during the campaign, sees the Social Democratic Party of Germany gain half a million votes and yet lose half of their seats.
• May – A separate Imperial Colonial Office is set up distinct from the Auswärtiges Amt.
• 15 July – An experimental train is reported to reach 81 mph and reach 98 mph maximum
• 6 October – The Deutscher Werkbund is established in Munich.
• The Herero and Namaqua Genocide reaches its climax in this year.

  Undated

• Arsphenamine is first synthesised in 1907 in Paul Ehrlich's lab by Alfred Bertheim.

  Architecture

• Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke, a swing bridge is opened in Wilhelmshaven.

  Arts

• Oscar Straus's opera Ein Walzertraum receives its premiere.

  Diplomacy

• 18 October – Germany is among the signatories of the Hague Convention of 1907.

  Education

• The University of Mannheim is established.

  Science

• Eduard Buchner is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Sport

• May – 1907 World Wrestling Championships held in Frankfurt
• 13–14 June – 1907 Kaiser Preis motor race is held.
• Freiburger FC are crowned German football champions for the first time.
• The Rund um die Hainleite cycling race in Erfurt is held for the first time.

  Transport

• 5 October – The SMS Dresden is launched.

  Births

• 4 January – Willy Busch, footballer
• 16 January – Martin Scherber, composer
• 20 January – Manfred von Ardenne, physicist
• 25 January – Helmut Weiss, film director
• 1 February – Günter Eich, author
• 7 February – Kurt Hasse, equestrian
• 19 February – Rudolf von Beckerath, organ builder
• 23 February – Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, German resistance member
• 11 March:
• * Heinz Brandt, equestrian and officer
• * Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, jurist
• * Konrad Wolff, musicologist
• 12 March – Josef Stangl, Bishop of Würzburg
• 13 March – Ludwig Biermann, astronomer
• 17 March – Franz Kartz, boxer
• 20 March – Helmut Echternach, theologian
• 24 March – Josef Lanzendörfer, bobsledder
• 30 March:
• * Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, Luftwaffe officer
• * Rudolf Krause, racing driver
• 7 April – Friedrich Wegener, pathologist
• 8 April – Walter Leinweber, ice hockey player
• 16 April – August Eigruber, Nazi Gauleiter
• 30 April – Karl-Lothar Schulz, General
• 8 May – Wolf Graf von Baudissin, General
• 9 May – Baldur von Schirach, head of the Hitler Youth
• 11 May:
• * Hermann Behrends, Schutzstaffel officer
• * Eva Schulze-Knabe, painter
• 14 May – Hans von der Groeben, diplomat
• 17 May – Ulrich Biel, CDU politician
• 22 May – Werner Müller, ethnologist
• 27 May
• * Alois Kratzer, ski jumper
• * Herbert Seifert, mathematician
• 2 June – Willy Langkeit, general
• 6 June – Ernst Gaber, rower
• 7 June – Hilarius Breitinger, Franciscan
• 14 June – Paul Klinger, actor
• 22 June – Eberhard Koebel, German youth leader and writer
• 25 June:
• * J. Hans D. Jensen, nuclear physicist
• * Hugo Strauß, rower
• 26 June – Friedrich Asinger, chemist
• 1 July – Fabian von Schlabrendorff, jurist and German resistance member
• 2 July – Ernst Kupfer, Luftwaffe officer
• 7 July – Walter Dieminger, space scientist
• 8 July – Otto Kranzbühler, judge
• 11 July – Adalbert von Blanc, Kriegsmarine officer
• 17 July – Winfried Mahraun, diver
• 13 August – Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, industrialist
• 30 August – Hans Georg Rupp, judge
• 6 September – Ilse Schwidetzky, anthropologist
• 9 September – Joachim Sadrozinski, officer
• 10 September – Dorothea von Salviati, member of the royal family
• 15 September – Alfred Delp, priest and philosopher
• 18 September – Jakob Brendel, wrestler
• 19 September – Heinrich Trettner, general
• 20 September – Nicolaus von Below, adjutant to Adolf Hitler
• 22 September – Hermann Schlichting, engineer
• 23 September – Herbert Kappler, police chief
• 25 September – Otto Weiß, Luftwaffe officer
• 29 September – Helmut Lemke, CDU politician
• 9 October – Horst Wessel, Nazi Party activist
• 12 October – Wolfgang Fortner, composer
• 17 October – Herbert Böhme, poet
• 19 October – Paul Klingenburg, water polo player
• 22 October:
• * Emilie Schindler, humanitarian
• * Günther Treptow, opera singer
• 24 October – Albert Hoffmann, Nazi Gauleiter
• 9 November – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II
• 10 November – Hans Herbert Fiedler, opera singer
• 15 November – Claus von Stauffenberg, German resistance member and leader of the 20 July plot
• 22 November – Gustav Adolf Scheel, physician
• 24 November – Friedrich Geiger, car designer
• 30 November – Anton Biersack, composer
• 9 December – Max Deuring, mathematician
• 12 December – Ilse Fürstenberg, actress
• 13 December – Theodor Wisch, SS commander
• 16 December – Hanns Scharff, interrogator
• 20 December – Leny Marenbach, actress
• 23 December – Georg Haentzschel, pianist
• 27 December:
• * Sebastian Haffner, journalist
• * Johann Trollmann, boxer
• 28 December
• * Franz Ehrlich, architect
• * Erich Mielke, politician
• * Heinz Förstendorf, field hockey player
• 31 December – Walter Huppenkothen, lawyer

  Deaths

• 9 January – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover
• 30 January – Ludwig Woltmann, German zoologist
• 5 February – Ludwig Thuille, composer
• 8 February – Alfred Kirchhoff, German geographer
• 14 February – Adolf Seel, painter
• 17 February – Wilhelm von Bezold, physicist
• 24 February – Otto Goldschmidt, composer
• 6 March – Karl Heinrich von Boetticher, FKP politician
• 13 March – Fritz Scheel, conductor
• 20 March – Ottomar Rosenbach, physician
• 25 March – Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
• 1 April – Johann Friedrich Jaennicke, entomologist
• 30 April – Julius Langbehn, art historian
• 3 May – Hermann Tietz, merchant
• 13 May – Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, nobleman
• 30 May – Ottomar Anschütz, inventor
• 5 July – Kuno Fischer, philosopher
• 13 July – Heinrich Kreutz, astronomer
• 10 August – Hermann Ende architect
• 13 August – Hermann Carl Vogel, astronomer
• 13 September – Jacob Friedrich Behrend, jurist
• 28 September – Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, nobleman
• 3 October – Alfred Reisenauer, pianist
• 10 October – Adolf Furtwängler, archaeologist
• 12 November – Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, nobleman and General
• 16 November – Gustav Hertzberg, historian
• 21 November – Paula Modersohn-Becker, painter
• 25 November – Heinrich Dernburg, jurist
• 30 November – Ludwig Levy, German architect
• 21 December – Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler