1888 in Germany

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Incumbents

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)
20 July - Paul Langerhans German pathologist, physiologist and biologist (born 1847)
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)

Years in Germany (1870–present)

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