(died 1971) 30 March – Erhard Milch, German field marshal of Luftwaffe (died 1972) 1 April – Anton Storch, German politician (died 1975) 3 April – Hans Rademacher, German mathematician (died 1969) 23 April – Richard Huelsenbeck, German poet and writer (died 1974) 30 April – Gottlob Bauknecht, German businessman (died 1976) 2 May: Trude Hesterberg, German actress (died 1967) Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (died 1918) 12 June – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (died 1973) 22 June – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (died 1945) 27 June – Erich Köhler, German politician (died 1958) 12 July – Harry Piel, German actor and film director (died 1963) 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic (died 1940) 22 July – Arthur Seyss-Inquart, German politician (died 1946) 13 September – Victoria Louise of Prussia, German noblewoman (died 1980) 23 September – Lorenz Jaeger, German cardinal of Roman Catholic Church (died 1975) 3 October – Bernhard Schweitzer, German archaeologist (died 1966) 9 November – Erich Auerbach, German philologist, scholar, and literature critic (died 1957) 24 November – Karl Steinhoff, German politician (died 1981) 1 December – Walter Bathe, German swimmer (died 1959) 19 December – Max Seydewitz, German politician (died 1987) Deaths Undated – William Julius Mann, theologian (born 1819) 7 January – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist (born 1819) 16 January – Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, German general and military writer (born 1827) 5 February – Theodor Marsson, German botanist (born 1816) 13 March – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1837) 14 March – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician (born 1819) 21 April – Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (born 1803) 5 May – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (born 1818) 20 June – Albert Wolff, German sculptor (born 1814) 5 August – Henriette Feuerbach, German author (born 1812) 16 October – Georg Bleibtreu, German painter (born 1828) 28 October – Felix Otto Dessoff, German conductor (born 1835) 6 November – Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, German historian (born 1838) 6 December – Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (born 1816) 28 December – Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche, Norwegian painter (born 1837). Literature Frank Wedekind's magnum opus drama "Das Erwachen des Fruhlings" or "Spring Awakening" is set during this year with one of the play's protagonists Wendla Bergmann's death occurring on October 27. References Years of the 19th century in