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Events in the year 1888 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Kaiser — William I to 9 March, then Frederick III to 15 June, then Wilhelm II
- Chancellor — Otto von Bismarck
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
- King of Prussia — William I to 9 March, then Frederick III to 15 June, then Wilhelm II (all Kaisers of the German Empire)
- King of Saxony — Albert of Saxony
- King of Württemberg — Charles I of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden — Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse — Louis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin — Frederick Francis III
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg — Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — Charles Alexander
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe — Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen — Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe — Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont — George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt — Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick — Prince Albert of Prussia (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) — Eugen von Zimmerer (1st term) to 17 January, then Julius Freiherr von Soden (2nd term)
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Karl Peters (administrator) to 8 February, then Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Georg Freiherr von Schleinitz to 1 March, then Reinhold Kraetke (both Landeshauptleute of the German New Guinea Company)
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner)
- Togoland — Jesko von Puttkamer (acting commissioner) (1st term) to 17 October, then Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
- Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) — Gustav Denhardt (resident)
Events
- 9 March — Emperor Wilhelm I dies at the age of 90 in Berlin. He is succeeded by his oldest son Friedrich Wilhelm, who becomes Friedrich III.
- 16 April — The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru
- 15 June — Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor after the death of his father, Friedrich III.
- 13 December — Heinrich Hertz presents his report on the discovery of electromagnetic radiation to the Berlin Academy of Sciences
Literature
- 'Theses on Feuerbach' by Karl Marx published posthumously
Music
- Johannes Brahms — Violin Sonata in D Minor (opus 108)
- Max Reger — String Quartet in D minor (with double bass obbligato; without op.) (1888-9)
- Joseph Rheinberger — Organ Sonata No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 154
- Richard Strauss
- Don Juan, Macbeth (first version)
- Carl Maria von Weber's opera Die drei Pintos completed posthumously by Theodor Hell
Sport
- Establishment of association football clubs BFC Germania, TGM SV Jügesheim and KBC Duisburg
Miscellaneous
- First buildings of the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil opened
Births
- 14 January — Karl Badberger, architect
- 17 February — Otto Stern, German Nobel laureate in Physics, expatriate in United States (died 1969, United States)
- 27 February — Lotte Lehmann, German soprano, expatriate in United States (died 1976, United States)
- 14 March — Peretz Naftali, German-born Israeli politician (died 1961, Israel)
- 14 March — Hermann Reinecke, Wehrmacht general (died 1973)
- 19 March — Josef Albers, German-born American artist (died 1976, United States)
- 17 April — Herms Niel, German composer (died 1954, West Germany)
- 24 July — Hermann von Bönninghausen, athlete (died 1919)
- 20 December — Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (died 1980, Israel)
Deaths
- 9 March — William I, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (born 1797)
- 5 April — Eduard Karl August Riehm, theologian (born 1830)
- 16 April - Friedrich Grillo, industrialist (born 1825)
- 15 June — Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (born 1831)
- 20 June — Karl Friedrich August Kahnis, theologian (born 1814)
- 23 July — Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, theologian (born 1818)
- 24 August - Rudolf Clausius, physicist and mathematician (born 1822)
- 28 August — Georg Beseler, politician and jurist (born 1809)
- 12 September — August von Werder, general (born 1808)
- 3 December - Carl Zeiss, entrepreneur and scientist (born 1816)