1872 in Germany

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Events from the year 1872 in Germany .

Incumbents

National level

• Emperor – William I
• Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
• King of Prussia – William I
• King of Saxony – John
• King of Württemberg – Charles

Grand Duchies

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 4 July – Jesuits Law is promulgated
• 12 November – Dresdner Bank is founded

Science

• 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

• Radeberger Brewery is opened

Births

• 11 January
  • Georg Karo, German archaeologist (died 1963)
  • Paul Graener, German composer and conductor (died 1944)
• 19 January – Heinrich Laufenberg, German politician and historian (died 1932)
• 23 January – Paul Mebes, German architect (died 1938)
• 28 January – Otto Braun, German politician (died 1955)
• 8 February – Theodor Lessing, German philosopher (died 1933)
• 2 March – Rudolf Helm, German classical philologist (died 1966)
• 3 March
  • Wilhelm Ahrens, German mathematician (died 1927)
  • Frida Felser, opera singer and actress (died 1941). ^[1]
• 10 March – Camillo Schumann, German composer and organist (died 1946)
• 13 March – Joseph Rosemeyer, German track cyclist (died 1919)
• 20 March – Bernhard Goldenberg, German engineer (died 1917)
• 24 March – Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (died 1930)
• 1 April – Conrad Gröber, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948)
• 5 April – Emmy von Egidy, German sculptor and writer (died 1946)
• 9 April – Theodor Koch-Grunberg, German ethnologue and explorer (died 1924)
• 19 April – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (died 1948) ^[2]
• 22 April – Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1954)
• 25 April – Albrecht Bethe. Germany physiologist (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

• 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

1. Eisenberg, Ludwig (1903). Ludwig Eisenberg's großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX (in German). Leipzig. p. 251.
2. 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.