U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany. 16 July - German company Mannesmann is founded in Düsseldorf. August — Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Alexander III of Russia meet at Narva. Date unknown German physician and physiologist Emil von Behring publishes an article with Kitasato Shibasaburo reporting that they have developed "antitoxins" against both diphtheria and tetanus in Berlin. Births 9 January – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer (died 1935) 30 January – Albert Zürner, German diver (died 1920) 6 February – Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (died 1956) 20 February – Georg Thomas, German general (died 1946) 5 March – Wilhelm Boden, German politician (died 1961) 22 March – Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician (died 1945) 22 April – Erwin Jaenecke, German general (died 1960) 10 May – Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946) 15 June – Wilhelm Leuschner, German politician (died 1944) 25 June – Hans Marchwitza, German writer and poet (died 1965) 4 July – Otto Feick, German gymnast (died 1959) 8 July – Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright (died 1940) 29 July – Elisabeth von Thadden, German educator and resistance fighter (died 1944) 30 July – Ludwig Schwamb, German politician (died 1945) 3 August – Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1972) 4 August – Erich Weinert, German author (died 1953) 14 August – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war criminal (died 1946) 18 August – Walther Funk, German banker and economist (died 1960) 16 September – Traugott Herr, German general (died 1976) 23 September – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (died 1957) 10 October – Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot (died 1925) 2 December – C. Paul Jennewein, German-American sculptor (died 1978) 6 December: Hans Bethge, German pilot (died 1918) Carl Jules Weyl, German-American art director and Reichswehr soldier (died 1948) 17 December – Prince Joachim of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1920) Deaths 7 January - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German queen (born 1811) 20 January – Franz Lachner, German composer and conductor (born 1803) 27 January – Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, German psychiatrist (born 1833) 18 March – Johann Georg Halske, German businessman (born 1814) 19 March – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman (born 1838) 27 March – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist (born 1803) 30 April – Hermann von Dechend, German politician who served as the first President of the Reichsbank (born 1814) 26 May –