1846 in Germany

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Events from the year 1846 in Germany .

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I.
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus ^[1]
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Births

Wilhelm Maybach

• February 9 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (d. 1929)
• March 24 – Karl von Bülow, German field marshal (d. 1921)
• May 20 – Alexander von Kluck, German general (d. 1934) ^[2]
• December 17 – Max von Hausen, German general (d. 1922) ^[3]

Deaths

• March 17 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784) ^[4]

References

1. Van der Kiste 2004, p. 189.
2. Franz Weigl: Unsere Führer im Weltkrieg. Kösel, Kempten 1915. S. 184.
3. Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939 (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993)
4. Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1846). "Bessel's Tod" [Bessel's death]. Astronomische Nachrichten (in German). 24 (556): 49–52. Bibcode:1846AN.....24...49B. doi:10.1002/asna.18460240402.

Bibliography

Van der Kiste, John (2004), George III's Children (revised ed.), Stroud, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd, ISBN   978-0-7509-3438-1