1822 in Germany
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Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[5]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[6]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[12]
Events
- "Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration.
- The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, established from 1822 to 1946.
- Röchling SE & Co. KG, a plastics engineering company headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is established.
- Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded.
- Sternburg-Export was first brewed by Maximilian Freiherr Speck von Sternburg
Births
- 2 January – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
- 6 January-Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- 18 April – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878)
- 27 August – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)
Deaths
- 14 January – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
- 22 January – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786)
William Herschel - 23 February – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757)
- 3 April – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
- 27 May – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
- 25 June – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)[13]
- 25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738)
- 26 November – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750)
- 8 December – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
- 28 December – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)
