1913 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

  State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto of Bavaria to 5 November, then Ludwig III 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 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 – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• 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 to 29 March, then Heinrich XXVII, 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 – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg to 1 November, then Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, 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 – Karl Ebermaier ' to 9 October, then... Full
• Kiaochow – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
• German East Africa – Albert Heinrich Schnee
• German New Guinea – Albert Hahl '
• German Samoa – Erich Schultz-Ewerth
• German South-West Africa – Theodor Seitz
• Togoland – Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

  Events

• May 16 – Eberswalde Hoard discovered
• June 20 – Bremen school shooting causes the death of five pupils and the wounding 21 other people.
• September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.
• October 17 – Johannisthal air disaster occurs with an Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship's test flight resulted in the death of all 28 passengers and crew on board
• Date unknown - Bergius process is invented by German chemist Friedrich Bergius.
• Date unknown - Chemical element Protactinium is first identified by Oswald Helmuth Göhring and Kasimir Fajans.
• Date unknown - Die Naturwissenschaften first published by Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.

  Births

• 23 January - Herbert Runge, German boxer
• 25 February — Gert Fröbe, German actor
• 26 February – Hermann Lenz, German poet and author
• 2 March - Falk Harnack, German director and screenwriter
• 18 March - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander
• 21 March - Werner Höfer, German journalist
• 9 April - Heinrich Wöhlk German optometrist.
• 10 April - Stefan Heym, German writer
• 19 April - Karl Rawer, German physicist, specialist in radio wave propagation and the ionosphere
• 21 April - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
• 24 April - Paul Esser, German actor
• 27 April – Luz Long, German long jump athlete
• 13 May - Lotte Rausch, German actress
• 26 May - Josef Manger, German heavy weightlifter
• 31 May – Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian
• 2 June - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer, song-writer
• 10 June – Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist
• 1 August - Heinz Ellenberg, German biologist
• 1 August - Hajo Herrmann, German Luftwaffe pilot
• 4 August – Johann Niemann, SS officer
• 10 August – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist
• 26 August - Julius Döpfner, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church
• 15 September - Johannes Steinhoff, German general
• 15 September - Hans Filbinger, German politician
• 26 September - Berthold Beitz, German indutstrialist
• 26 September - Ernst Schnabel, German writer
• 24 October - Jürgen Oesten, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II.
• 8 November – Ludwig Elsbett, German engineer
• 13 November - Walter Horten, German aircraft pilot
• 21 November - Volker von Collande, German actor and film director
• 24 November - Gisela Mauermayer, German athlete
• 9 December - Friedrich Dickel, German politician
• 9 December - Fritz Grasshoff, German writer
• 18 December – Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany
• 19 December - Ernst Stuhlinger, German rocket scientist
• 25 December – Henri Nannen, German journalist
• 28 December ´- Egbert Hayessen, German mayor
• 30 December - Tilo von Berlepsch, German actor

  Deaths

• 4 January - Alfred von Schlieffen, German fieldmarshall
• 11 January - Karl Binz, German pharmacologist
• 21 January - Friedrich von Hollmann, German admiral
• 29 March – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman
• 14 April - Carl Hagenbeck, German merchant
• 19 April – Hugo Winckler, archaeologist
• 29 April - Andreas Flocken, German engineer and inventor
• 29 May – Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector
• 13 August – August Bebel, politician
• 29 September – Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor
• 10 October - Adolphus Busch, German businessman
• 7 December - Heinrich Ernst Göring, German jurist and diplomat
• 22 December – Theodor Kaes, neurologist