and defendant at the Nuremberg Trials (date of death unknown) 12 March – Kurt Stöpel, German bicycle racer (died 1997) 25 March – Helmut Käutner, German film director (died 1980) 26 March – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (died 1981) 15 April – Richard Löwenthal, German author and journalist (died 1991) 19 April – Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (died 1968) 7 May – Max Grundig, German entrepreneur (died 1989) 19 May – Rolf Dahlgrün, German politician (died 1969) 20 May – Carlo Otte, Nazi administrator 22 May – Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player (died 1985) 11 June – Karl Hein German athlete (died 1982) 24 June – Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942) 31 July – Franz Meyers, German politician (died 2002) 10 August – Hanan Rubin, German-born Israeli politician (died 1962) 18 August – Heinrich Hellwege, German politician (died 1991) 27 August – Karl Ernst Rahtgens, German officer (died 1944) 22 September – Fritz Gunst, German water polo player (died 1992) 9 October – Werner von Haeften, Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht, who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot (died 1944) 12 October – Georg Henneberg, German physician (died 1996) 14 October – Rudolf Ismayr, German weightlifter (died 1998) 25 October – Gotthard Handrick, German athlete and fighter pilot (died 1978) 26 October – Richard Häussler, German actor (died 1964) 11 November – Martin Held, German actor (died 1992) 20 November – Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1968) 21 November – Franz Pfnür, German alpine skier (died 1996) Deaths 5 January – Joseph von Mering, German physician (born 1849) 9 January – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832) 22 January – August Wilhelmj, German violinist (born 1845) 7 February – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, nobleman (born 1826) 24 March – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (born 1821) 27 March – Johann Georg Mönckeberg, politician (born 1839) 26 April – Karl Möbius, German zoologist (born 1825) 17 May: Jacques Blumenthal, German pianist and composer (born 1829) Carl Koldewey, German Arctic explorer (born 1837) 4 June – Hermann von der Hude, German architect (born 1830) 13 June – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1828) 10 July – Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, German botanist (born 1817) 29 July – Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch, German sculptor