1917 in Germany
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Events in the year 1917 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Kaiser – Wilhelm II
- Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to 13 July, then Georg Michaelis to 31 October, then from 1 November Georg von Hertling
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
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 (with Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Colonial Governor
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Albert Heinrich Schnee, although much of territory under Allied occupation.
Events
- January/February – Turnip Winter
- 19 January – Zimmermann Telegram
- 13 February – Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich is officially founded.
- 13 March – German Leather Museum in Offenbach am Main opened by Hugo Eberhardt
- 2 April – United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)
- 1 October – The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik is officially founded in Berlin.
- 25 October – Hertling cabinet
- 18 December – German filmcompany UFA GmbH is founded in Berlin.
- 22 December – Deutsches Institut für Normung is founded.
Births
- 5 January – Wieland Wagner, German opera director (died 1966)
- 24 March – Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization (died 1984)
- 9 April – Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer (died 1965)
- 16 May – Ulrich Matschoss, German actor (died 2013)
- 2 June – Heinz Sielmann, German zoologist, biologist and filmmaker (died 2006)
- 6 September – Philipp von Boeselager, German resistance fighter (died 2008)
- 12 September – Jürgen Seydel, German karateka (died 2000)
- 15 December – Karl-Günther von Hase, German diplomat and journalist
- 21 December – Heinrich Böll, German writer (died 1985)
- 23 December – Armin Zimmermann, German admiral (died 1976)
Deaths
- 23 January – Jesko von Puttkamer, German nobelman and colonial military chief (born 1855)
- 16 February – August Rauber, German anatomist (born 1841)
- 8 March – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer (born 1838)
- 14 March – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (born 1860)
- 17 March – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist, and priest (born 1838)
- 21 March – Alfred Einhorn, German chemist (born 1856)
- 31 March – Emil von Behring, German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1854)
- 6 April:
- Hans Berr, soldier turned World War I flying ace (born 1890)
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917), German Prussian King
- 14 April – Hartmuth Baldamus, German World War I flying ace (born 1891)
- 21 April – Bernd von Arnim, German naval officer (born 1885)
- 24 April – Oscar Blumenthal, German playwright (born 1852)
- 17 June – Karl Zilgas, German football player (born 1882)
- 27 June – Karl Allmenröder, German World War I flying ace (born 1896)
- 27 June - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (born 1838)
- 3 August - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (born 1849)
- 13 August – Eduard Buchner, German chemist and zymologist (born 1860)
- 15 August – Gustav Körte, German archaeologist (born 1852)
- 16 August – Wilhelm Morgner, German painter (born 1891)
- 20 August – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist (born 1835)
- 15 September – Kurt Wolff (aviator), German aviator (born 1895)
- 28 September – Kurt Wissemann, German World War I flying ace (born 1893)
- 25 October:
- Maximilian Bayer, German founder of Scouting in Germany (born 1872)
- Hans Olde, German painter (born 1855)
- 15 November – Hans Ritter von Adam, German flying ace in World War I (born 1886)
- 20 November – Ludwig Sütterlin, German graphic artist (born 1865)
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