1916 in Germany

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

  State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig III of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
• King of Württemberg – William II of Württemberg

  Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick VI
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

  Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

  Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

  Colonial Governors

• Cameroon to 4 March – Karl Ebermaier
• German East Africa – Albert Heinrich Schnee

  Events

• 4 March – Germany surrenders German Cameroon to British and French occupying forces.
• 4 September – Germany surrenders Togoland to British and French occupying forces.

  Births

• 12 February – Helmut Gröttrup, electrical engineer
• 10 May – Alfred Weidenmann, German film director and actor
• 9 June – Siegfried Graetschus, SS officer
• 26 June – Yitzhak Danziger, German-born Israeli sculptor
• 20 September – Rudolf August Oetker, German entrepreneur

  Deaths

• 12 February – Richard Dedekind, mathematician
• 4 March – Franz Marc, painter
• 11 May:
• * Max Reger, Modernist composer, pianist, conductor, writer and professor
• * Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist
• 13 July – Josef Rieder
• 11 October – Otto, former King of Bavaria, nobleman.
• 8 November – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria, aviator