(died 1945) 12 May – Otto Frank, German businessman (died 1980) 23 May – Erich Engels, German screenwriter, producer and film director (died 1971) 25 May – Günther Lütjens, German general (died 1941) 11 June – Otto Dessloch, German Luftwaffe general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1977) 8 July – Hans Felber, German infantry general and Knight's Cross recipient (died 1962) 20 July – Erich Pommer, German film producer and executive (died 1966) 27 July – Hans von Opel, German industrialist (died 1948) 29 July – Ernst Reuter, German politician (died 1953) 21 September – Annemarie Steinsieck, German actress (died 1977) 26 September – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976) 3 October – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (died 1938) 7 October: Erich Büttner, German painter (died 1936) Hans Tropsch, German chemist (died 1935) 16 October – Reinhold Maier, German politician (died 1971) November 1 – Hannah Höch, German artist (died 1978) 29 November – Margarete Haagen, German actress (died 1966) 30 November – Hans Bischoff – German entomologist (died 1960) 24 December – Friedrich-Karl Burckhardt, World War I German flying ace (died 1962) Deaths 19 January – Alexander von Monts, German admiral (born 1832) 14 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist (born 1819) 26 March – C.F. Theodore Steinway, German piano maker (born 1825) 5 August – Fanny Lewald, poet and actor (born 1811) 21 December – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, geologist (born 1809) 26 December – Hermann von Thile, diplomat (born 1812) 27 December – Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, apothecary and industrialist (born 1824) References Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany Germany