laureate (died 2005) 14 October – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died 1975) 18 November – Klaus Mann, German writer (died 1949) 25 December – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1988) Date unknown: Josef Stürmann, a Munich philosopher (died 1959) Deaths 8 February – Wilhelm von Christ, (born 1831) 10 February – Anton Hermann Albrecht, German poet (born 1835) 19 February – Wilhelm Heyd, German historian (born 1823) 8 March – Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein, German-American engineer and politician (born 1823) 10 March – Eugen Richter, German politician (born 1838) 17 March – Johann Most, German-American anarchist (born 1846) 21 March – Carl von Siemens, German industrialist (born 1829) 14 May – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and US statesman (born 1829) 27 May – Erich Zweigert, German politician (born 1849) 5 June – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (born 1842) 5 July – Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physician (born 1863) 25 August – Max von Eyth, German engineer (born 1836) 13 September – Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian general field marshal and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick (born 1837) 19 October – Karl Pfizer, German chemist (born 1824) 22 October – Emil Ludwig Schmidt, German anthropologist (born 1837) 7 November – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer (born 1842) 31 December – Friedrich Gumpert, German professor (born 1841) References Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany