1844 in Germany

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Events in the year 1844 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
• King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
• Grand Duke of Baden – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

Events

• 15 March – opening of Gößnitz station

Undated

• Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick

Establishments

• Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844
• Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
• Waggonfabrik Fuchs

Births

• 3 January – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920)
• 16 January – Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911)
• 14 February – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915)
• 10 March – Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905)
• 25 March – Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930)
• 3 April – Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899)
• 30 April – Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924)
• 17 May – Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (died 1918)
• 6 August – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
• 30 August – Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (died 1904)
• 13 September – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1936)
• 15 October – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist (died 1900) ^[1]
• 24 November – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist (died 1904)
• 25 November – Carl Benz, German engine designer and automobile engineer (died 1929) ^[2]

Deaths

• 8 March – Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, pastellist (born 1784)
• 11 May – Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs, apothecary and natural history collector (born 1792) ^[3]
• 16 May – Joseph Knauer, Bishop of Wroclaw (born 1764) ^[4]
• 4 August – Christian Friedrich Illgen, Protestant theologian (born 1786)

References

1. Hollingdale, R. J. (1999). "Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy". The Journal of Philosophy. 64 (7). Cambridge University Press: 215–219. ISBN   978-0-521-64091-6. JSTOR   2024055.
2. Friedrich Schildberger (1968). Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz. Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft. p. 59.
3. Baker, Marian (December 2007). "Ludwig Krebs: A naturalist's observations of the Sixth Frontier War (1834-5)". Military History Journal. 14 (2).
4. Franz Heinrich Reusch: Knauer, Joseph. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 269 f, https://de.m.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Knauer,_Joseph.