1903 in Germany

← 1902 1901 1900 1903 in Germany → 1904 1905 1906
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1903 List of years in Germany

Events in the year 1903 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser — Wilhelm II
• Chancellor — Bernhard von Bülow

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria — Otto of Bavaria
• King of Prussia — Kaiser Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony — George of Saxony
• King of Württemberg — William II of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

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

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe — George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt — Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen — Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe — Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld as regent)
• Reuss Elder Line — Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line — Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont — Friedrich, 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 — Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) — Jesko von Puttkamer (8th term)
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) — Oskar von Truppel
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) — Gustav Adolf von Götzen
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) — Albert Hahl (2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) — Wilhelm Solf
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) — Theodor Leutwein
• Togoland — Waldemar Horn

Births

• February 10 – Karl Deichgräber, classical philologist (died 1984)
• February 24 - Franz Burda I - German publisher (died 1986)
• March 24 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (died 1995)
• September 11 - Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (died 1969)
• December 5 - Johannes Heesters, German actor (died 2011)

Date unknown — Ernst David Bergmann, German-born Israeli nuclear scientist and chemist (died 1975)

Deaths

• June 14 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (born 1826)
• November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist (born 1817)