1882 in Germany

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Events in the year 1882 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 – Albert
• King of Württemberg – Charles

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse – 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 – Charles Gonthier, 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

• 24 March – the Tuberculosis bacillus causing tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, was identified and described by Robert Koch.
• 28 March – German company Beiersdorf was founded.
• 29 April – the Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany.
• 20 May – Triple Alliance
• 23 June – Kiel Week in Kiel started.

Births

• 24 February – Richard Beitzen, German Naval officer (died 1918)
• 10 March – Hans Steinhoff, German film director (died 1945)
• 16 March – Paul Lejeune-Jung, German economist and politician (died 1944)
• 23 March
  • Emmy Noether, German mathematician (died 1935)
  • Max Gülstorff, German actor (died 1947)
• 2 April – Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (died 1955)
• 7 April – Kurt von Schleicher, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1934)
• 9 April – Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1945)
• 6 May – Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (died 1951)
• 10 May – Friedrich Marby, German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist (died 1966)
• 12 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman (died 1904)
• 25 May – Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (died 1951)
• 4 June – Karl Valentin, German actor and comedian (died 1948)
• 27 June – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher (died 1963)
• 29 June – Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (died 1947) ^[1]
• 23 July – Georg Jacoby, German film director and screenwriter (died 1964)
• 26 August – James Franck, German physicist (died 1964)
• 2 September – Max Bockmühl, German chemist (died 1949)
• 22 September – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (died 1946)
• 24 September – Karl Rapp, German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich.(died 1962)
• 26 September – Eduard von der Heydt, German banker (died 1964)
• 30 September – Hans Geiger, German physicist (died 1945)
• 12 October - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor (died 1954)
• 15 October – Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general and resistance fighter (died 1944)
• 24 October – Paul Günther, German diver (died 1959)
• 30 October – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (died 1944)
• 11 December – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (died 1970)
• 14 December – Wilhelm Keppler, German businessman (died 1960)
• 16 December
  • Ernst Lissauer, German poet (died 1937)
  • Walther Meissner, German physicist (died 1974)

Deaths

• 11 January — Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (born 1810)
• 13 January – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist (born 1834)
• 6 April – Friedrich Drake, German sculptor (born 1805)
• 29 May – Doris Devrient, German actress and singer (born 1801) ^[2]
• 16 September – Theodore Eisfeld, German conductor (born 1816)
• 23 September – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (born 1800)
• 11 November – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, German mineralogist and writer (born 1803)
• 13 November - Gottfried Kinkel, German poet (born 1815)
• 26 November – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian Prime Minister (born 1805)
• 5 December – Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, German biologist (born 1807)

References

1. http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/weimar/gewalt/stahlhelm/ Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten
2. "Böhler, Doris". Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe. Retrieved 12 February 2025.