1811 in Germany
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Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1797 â 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 â 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 â 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 â 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 â 10 June 1811)
- Charles 10 June 1811 â 8 December 1818[2]
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis Iâ (24 April 1785 â 1 February 1837)[3]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 â 6 November 1816)[4]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Karl August (1809â1815)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[6]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[7]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 â 24 September 1812)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 â 9 August 1817)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 â 16 June 1815)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[3]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803â20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 â 25 March 1816)[12]
Events
- 21 November â German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
- Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established
- Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established
Births
- 27 January â Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855)
- 30 or 31 March â Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)
- 30 September â Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)
- 25 October â C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
- 21 November â Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)
- 28 November â King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
- 3 December â Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889)
- 5 December â Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)
Deaths
- 11 January â Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733)
- 3 February â Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739)[13]
- 19 July â Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735)[14]
- September â Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)
- 8 September â Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
- 21 November â Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)[15]