1915 in Germany
Events in the year 1915 in Germany.Incumbents
National level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – 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 VI
- 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 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 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
- 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 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon – Karl Ebermaier
- German East Africa – Albert Heinrich Schnee
- German South-West Africa – Theodor Seitz to 15 July
Events
- 9 July – German forces in German South-West Africa capitulate and the territory is occupied by South Africa.
- 20 August - An auto parts, electronics and other manufacturing brand, ZF Friedrichshafen was founded, as predecessor name was Zepernicker Zahnradfabrik.
Undated
- German geophysicist Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent.
- German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer publishes an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.
Births
- 22 January – Heinrich Albertz, German politician
- 27 January – Ernst Schröder, German actor
- 14 February – Georg Thomalla, German actor
- 21 February – Roland von Hößlin, German officer
- 6 March – Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German officer
- 7 March – Johannes Wiese, German pilot during World War II, a fighter ace
- 11 March – Karl Krolow, German poet
- 12 March – Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots
- 13 April:
- * Max Jammer, German-born Israeli physicist
- * Stephan Hermlin, German poet
- 16 June – Marga Faulstich, German chemist
- 25 August – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht
- 26 August – Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat
- 28 August – Paul Schneider-Esleben, German architect
- 5 September – Horst Sindermann, German politician
- 6 September – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician
- 15 September – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager
- 9 October – Henner Henkel, German tennis champion
- 13 December – Curd Jürgens, German actor
Deaths
- 4 January – Anton von Werner, German painter
- 9 April – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist
- 2 May – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist
- 10 May – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian
- 15 May – Oskar Frenzel, German painter
- 20 June – Emil Rathenau, German entrepreneur and industrialist
- 9 July – Carl Walther, German gunsmith
- 15 July – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist
- 4 August – Richard Kiepert, German cartographer
- 20 August – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and scientist
- 19 September – David Friedrich Weinland, German zoologist and novelist
- 27 September – Kaspar von Zumbusch, German sculptor
- 15 October – Theodor Boveri, German biologist
- 4 December – Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, composer and conductor
- 19 December – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
