Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – Wilhelm II
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck to March 20, then Leo von Caprivi

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Colonial Governors

Cameroon (Kamerun) – Eugen von Zimmerer (acting governor) (2nd term) to (17 April), then Markus Graf Pfeil, to 3 August, then ... Kurz (acting governor) to December 2, then Jesko von Puttkamer (acting governor) (2nd term)
German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Hermann Wissmann (commissioner) (1st term)
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Fritz Rose (acting commissioner to 30 September, then commissioner)
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Heinrich Ernst Göring (acting commissioner) to August, then Louis Nels (acting commissioner)
Togoland – Eugen von Zimmerer (commissioner)
Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) – Gustav Denhardt (resident) to 1 July

Events

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5 February – German company Allianz is founded in Berlin.^[1]
20 February – German federal election, 1890.^[2]^[3]
20 March – Bismarck cabinet ends.
1 July — Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland (part of modern-day Kenya) and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the UK vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.
16 July - German company Mannesmann is founded in Düsseldorf.
August — Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Alexander III of Russia meet at Narva.

Date unknown

German physician and physiologist Emil von Behring publishes an article with Kitasato Shibasaburo reporting that they have developed "antitoxins" against both diphtheria and tetanus in Berlin.

Births

9 January – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist and writer (died 1935)
30 January – Albert Zürner, German diver (died 1920)
6 February – Karl Schelenz, German sport teacher (died 1956)
20 February – Georg Thomas, German general (died 1946)
5 March – Wilhelm Boden, German politician (died 1961)
22 March – Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician (died 1945)
22 April – Erwin Jaenecke, German general (died 1960)
10 May – Alfred Jodl, German general (died 1946)
15 June – Wilhelm Leuschner, German politician (died 1944)
25 June – Hans Marchwitza, German writer and poet (died 1965)
4 July – Otto Feick, German gymnast (died 1959)
8 July – Walter Hasenclever, German poet and playwright (died 1940)
29 July – Elisabeth von Thadden, German educator and resistance fighter (died 1944)
30 July – Ludwig Schwamb, German politician (died 1945)
3 August – Eduard Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (died 1972)
4 August – Erich Weinert, German author (died 1953)
14 August – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and Nazi war criminal (died 1946)
18 August – Walther Funk, German banker and economist (died 1960)
19 August – Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German-born Queen consort of Portugal in exile (d. 1966)
22 August – Hans-Joachim Buddecke, German World War I fighter pilot and ace (died 1918)
16 September – Traugott Herr, German general (died 1976)
21 September – Max Immelmann, German World War I fighter ace (died 1916)
23 September – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (died 1957)
8 October – Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer (d. 1979)
10 October – Emil Schäpe, German fighter pilot (died 1925)
29 October – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (d. 1944)
8 November – Conrad Weygand, German chemist (died 1945)
2 December – C. Paul Jennewein, German-American sculptor (died 1978)
6 December:
- Hans Bethge, German pilot (died 1918)
- Carl Jules Weyl, German-American art director and Reichswehr soldier (died 1948)
17 December – Prince Joachim of Prussia, German nobleman (died 1920)

Deaths

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7 January - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German queen (born 1811)
20 January – Franz Lachner, German composer and conductor (born 1803)
27 January – Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, German psychiatrist (born 1833)
18 March – Johann Georg Halske, German businessman (born 1814)
19 March – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman (born 1838)
27 March – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist (born 1803)
30 April – Hermann von Dechend, German politician who served as the first President of the Reichsbank (born 1814)
26 May – Adelbert Delbrück, German banker and businessman (born 1822)
27 August - Emil Otto Grundmann, German painter (born 1844)
3 September - Johann von Lutz, German politician (born 1826)
15 September – Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss, German scientist (born 1812)
19 September – Friedrich Gaedcke, German chemist (born 1828)
23 September - Lorenz von Stein, German economist and sociologist (born 1815)
4 November - Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (born 1820)
3 December – Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, German politician (born 1803)
26 December - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology (born 1822)

Citations

^ Werner Meyer-Larsen (2000). Germany, Inc: the new German juggernaut and its challenge to world business. John Wiley. p. 130. ISBN 9780471353577. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ Dunning, Wm. A. (1890). "Record of Political Events". Political Science Quarterly. 5 (2): 380–381. doi:10.2307/2139573. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 2139573.
^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p762 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

v t e Years in Germany (1871–present)
19th century	Pre-1871 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

v t e 1890 in Europe
Sovereign states	Andorra Austria-Hungary Baden Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Portugal Prussia Romania Russia San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta