1915 in Germany

Events

9 July – German forces in German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) capitulate and the territory is occupied by South Africa.
20 August – An auto parts, electronics and other manufacturing brand, ZF Friedrichshafen was founded, as predecessor name was Zepernicker Zahnradfabrik.^{[page needed]}

German geophysicist Alfred Wegener publishes his theory of Pangea, which he calls Urkontinent.
German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer publishes an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

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Births

22 January – Heinrich Albertz, German politician (died 1993)
27 January – Ernst Schröder, German actor (died 1994)
14 February – Georg Thomalla, German actor (died 1999)
21 February – Roland von Hößlin, German officer (died 1944)
6 March – Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German officer (died 1944)
7 March – Johannes Wiese, German pilot during World War II, a fighter ace (died 1991)
11 March – Karl Krolow, German poet (died 1991)
12 March – Reimar Horten, German aircraft pilots (died 1994)
13 April:
- Max Jammer, German-born Israeli physicist (died 2010)
- Stephan Hermlin, German poet (died 1997)
16 June – Marga Faulstich, German chemist (died 1998)
25 August – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman and an officer in the Wehrmacht (died 1944)
26 August – Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat (died 2002)
28 August – Paul Schneider-Esleben, German architect (died 2005)
5 September – Horst Sindermann, German politician (died 1990)
6 September – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (died 1988)
15 September – Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (died 1996)
9 October – Henner Henkel, German tennis champion (died 1942)
9 December - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-British operatic soprano (died 2006)
13 December – Curd Jürgens, German actor (died 1982)

4 January – Anton von Werner, German painter (born 1843)
9 April – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (born 1852)
2 May – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870)^[3]
10 May – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian (born 1856)
15 May – Oskar Frenzel, German painter (born 1855)
20 June – Emil Rathenau, German entrepreneur and industrialist (born 1838)
9 July – Carl Walther, German gunsmith (born 1858)
15 July – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (born 1844)
4 August – Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (born 1846)
20 August – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and scientist (born 1854)
19 September – David Friedrich Weinland, German zoologist and novelist (born 1829)
27 September – Kaspar von Zumbusch, German sculptor (born 1830)
15 October – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (born 1862)
4 December – Gustav Hollaender, German violinist, composer and conductor (born 1855)
19 December – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)

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