1872 in Germany
Appearance
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Events from the year 1872 in Germany.
Incumbents
[edit]National level
[edit]State level
[edit]Kingdoms
[edit]- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Saxony – John
- King of Württemberg – Charles
Grand Duchies
[edit]- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis III
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander
Principalities
[edit]- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
[edit]- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Events
[edit]- 4 July – Jesuits Law is promulgated
- 12 November – Dresdner Bank is founded
Science
[edit]- Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers.
- Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries.
- Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem.
- Polyvinyl chloride is accidentally synthesised by German chemist Eugen Baumann.
Undated
[edit]- Radeberger Brewery is opened
Births
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- 11 January – Paul Graener, German composer and conductor (died 1944)
- 28 January – Otto Braun, German politician (died 1955)
- 8 February – Theodor Lessing, German philosopher (died 1933)
- 24 March – Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (died 1930)
- 1 April – Conrad Gröber, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948)
- 9 April – Theodor Koch-Grunberg, German ethnologue and explorer (died 1924)
- 19 April – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (died 1948)[1]
- 22 April – Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1954)
- 2 May – Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (died 1951)
- 14 June – Heinrich Vogeler, German painter (died 1942)
- 22 July – Karl Helfferich, German politician (died 1924)
- 13 August – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
- 5 September – Carl Friedrich von Siemens, German entrepreneur (died 1941)
- 3 October – Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, German scientist and inventor (died 1931)
- 9 November – Richard Otto, German physician (died 1952)
- 11 November – Frederick Stock, German composer (died 1942)
Deaths
[edit]- 1 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (born 1805)
- 13 May – Moritz Hartmann, German poet and author (born 1821)
- 24 May – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
- 21 August – David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (born 1820)
- 13 September – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher and anthropologist (born 1804)
- 14 October – Prince Albert of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1809)
References
[edit]- ^ Schlör, Joachim (2005). Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822-1938 (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 359. ISBN 978-3-52556-990-0.
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