1812 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
- 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)
- George I (24 September 1812 â 9 September 1813)
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
- 20 February â Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).[13][14]
- May â Conference of Dresden
- 2 July â Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.[13]
- 20 December â The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
- 31 December â Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.[13]
- The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
Births
- 6 February â Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)[15]
- 27 April â Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)[16]
- 14 May â Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883)
- 9 June â Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
- 24 December â Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
- 28 December â Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)[17]
Deaths
- 24 March â Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
- 29 March â Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
- 14 July â Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June â Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
- 10 July â Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
- 23 August â Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
- 19 September â Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
- 21 September â Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)[18]