1815 in Germany

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Events from the year 1815 in Germany.

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) ^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
• Kingdom of Hanover
  • George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818 ^[2]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) ^[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) ^[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) ^[4]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. ^[5]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) ^[5]
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Karl August (1809–1815)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867) ^[6]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) ^[7]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817) ^[8]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815) ^[9]
  • Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830) ^[9]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick ^[3]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) ^[10]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866) ^[11]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816) ^[12]

Events

• 3 January – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.

9 June: The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed.

• 9 June – The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed: A new European political situation is set. The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created, and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
• 16 June-Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ligny: Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
• 2 August – Napoleonic Wars: Representatives of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia and Prussia sign a convention at Paris, declaring that Napoleon Bonaparte is "their prisoner" and that "His safekeeping is entrusted to the British Government." ^[13]
• 26 September – Austria, Prussia and Russia sign a Holy Alliance, to uphold the European status quo. ^[14]
• 20 November – The Napoleonic Wars come to an end after 12 years, with the British government restoring the status quo of France, prior to when the French Revolution began in 1789.

Births

• 15 January – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (d. 1901)
• 11 March – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879) ^[15]
• 1 April- Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
• 6 April – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
• 18 June – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Bavarian general (d. 1881)
• 26 July – Robert Remak, German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (d. 1865)
• 31 October – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897)
• 8 December – Adolph Menzel, German artist, painter (d. 1905)

Deaths

• 5 March – Franz Mesmer, German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734)
• 11 May – Aletta Haniel, German business person (b. 1742)
• 16 June – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noble, general (killed in battle) (b. 1771)
• 3 July – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (b. 1752)

References

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4. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
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7. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
8. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
9. Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
10. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I."  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
11. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
12. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN   3-7921-0320-6.
13. Charles Jean Tristan, Count Montholon, History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helen (E. Ferrett & Company, 1846) p83
14. Tim Chapman, The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815 (Routledge, 2006) p60
15. Wier, Albert E. (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. New York: Macmillan. p. 197. OCLC   1031758679.