athlete (died 1995) 9 December - Friedrich Dickel, German politician (died 1993) 9 December - Fritz Grasshoff, German writer (died 1997) 18 December – Willy Brandt, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1992) 19 December - Ernst Stuhlinger, German rocket scientist (died 2008) 25 December – Henri Nannen, German journalist (died 1996) 28 December - Egbert Hayessen, German mayor (died 1944) 30 December - Tilo von Berlepsch, German actor (died 1991) Deaths 4 January - Alfred von Schlieffen, German fieldmarshall (born 1833) 6 January - Carl Arp, landscape painter (born 1867) 8 January - Friedrich Schrempf, German editor and politician (born 1858) 11 January - Karl Binz, German pharmacologist (born 1832) 21 January - Friedrich von Hollmann, German admiral (born 1842) 6 March – Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, botanist (born 1834) 29 March – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, nobleman (born 1832) 14 April - Carl Hagenbeck, German merchant (born 1844) 19 April – Hugo Winckler, archaeologist (born 1863) 29 April - Andreas Flocken, German engineer and inventor (born 1845) 29 May – Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, painter, traveler, author and plant collector (born 1840) 9 August – Wilhelm Albermann, German sculptor (born 1835) 13 August Bernhard Bardenheuer, surgeon (born 1839) August Bebel, politician (born 1840) 21 August – Carl Ludwig von Bar, jurist (born 1836) 29 August – Herman Aron, electrical engineer (born 1845) 31 August – Erwin Bälz, physician and anthroplogist (born 1849) 29 September – Rudolf Diesel, engineer and inventor (born 1858) 5 October - Hans von Bartels, painter (born 1856) 10 October - Adolphus Busch, German businessman (born 1839) 7 December - Heinrich Ernst Göring, German jurist and diplomat (born 1839) 8 December - Johann von Berenberg-Gossler, banker (born 1839) 22 December – Theodor Kaes, neurologist (born 1852) References Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany