1877 in Germany

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Events in the year 1877 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – William I ^[1]
• Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck ^[2]

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig II ^[3]
• King of Prussia – William I ^[1]
• King of Saxony – Albert ^[4]
• King of Württemberg – Charles

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis III to 13 June, then Louis IV
• 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 – Gonthier Frederick Charles II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, 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 – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Events

• 10 January – German federal election, 1877
• Summer – Kissingen Dictation

Date unknown

• German company Blohm+Voss is founded.

Births

• 22 January – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. (died 1970)
• 7 February – Julius Curtius, German (died 1948)
• 8 February – Albert Vögler, German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (died 1945)
• 19 February – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962) ^[5]
• 3 March – Alexander Baerwald, German architect (died 1930)
• 4 March – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934) ^[6]
• 6 March – Karl Platen, German actor (died 1952)
• 12 March – Wilhelm Frick, German politician (died 1946)
• 15 March – Fritz Lang, German painter (died 1961)
• 19 March – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (died 1947)
• 29 March – Alois Kayser, Alsatian-born missionary (died 1944 in Micronesia)
• 15 April – Georg Kolbe, German painter (died 1947)
• 23 April – Hans Winkler, German botanist (died 1945)
• 4 June – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1957)
• 2 July – Hermann Hesse, German writer (died 1962)
• 13 September – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (died 1957)
• 15 September – Wilhelm Adam, German general (died 1949)
• 1 November – Else Ury, German writer (died 1943)
• 23 November – Franz Bracht, German politician (died 1933)
• 4 December – Morris Alexander, South African politician (died 1946 in South Africa) ^[7]
• 19 December – Princess Pauline of Württemberg (died 1965)

Deaths

• 12 January – Wilhelm Hofmeister, German biologist and botanist (born 1824)
• 18 February - Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, German politician (born 1795)
• 20 February - Marie Simon, German nurse (born 1824) ^[8]
• 22 February - Eduard Gaertner, German painter (born 1801)
• 18 April – Franz Hanfstaengl, German photograph and painter (born 1804)
• 22 April - August Wilhelm Zumpt, German German classical scholar (born 1815)
• 11 May – Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, German general (born 1805)
• 25 May – Friedrich Thyssen, German banker and patriarch of the Thyssen family dynasty (born 1804)
• 13 June – Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, nobleman (born 1806)
• 13 July – Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1811)
• 14 July - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician (born 1795)
• 12 September – Julius Rietz, German conductor and composer (born 1812)
• 26 September – Hermann Grassmann (born 1809)
• 18 October – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German anthropologist and paleoanthropologist (born 1803)
• 2 November – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, German Generalfeldmarschall (born 1784)
• 26 November – Richard Lucae, German architect (born 1829)
• 18 December – Philipp Veit, German painter (born 1793)

References

1. "William I | emperor of Germany". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "BBC - History - Otto von Bismarck". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
3. "Louis II | king of Bavaria". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
4. Nelson, Michael (2001). Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera. I.B.Tauris. p. 180. ISBN   9781860646461.
5. Haftmann, Werner (1966). Painting In The Twentieth Century. London: Praeger Publishers. p. 409. ISBN   978-0-27588-730-8.
6. Fritz Graebner German ethnologist
7. Abrahams, Israel (1968). "Alexander, Morris". In De Kock, W. J. (ed.). Dictionary of South African Biography. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). p. 10. OCLC   85921202.
8. Haufe, Kay (May 14, 2023). "Die vergessene Dresdner Heldin: Marie-Simon-Grab erneuert" [The Forgotten Dresden Heroine: Marie Simon Grave Renewed]. Sächsische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-26.