1824 in Germany
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Events from the year 1824 in Germany
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 Hanover
- George IV (29 January 1820 â 26 June 1830)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 â 25 June 1864)
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)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
- 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)[4]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[5]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[6]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[7]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 â 9 September 1830)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803â20 September 1866)[10]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 â 6 July 1825)[11]
Events
- May 7 â Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage, to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
- German shipping company F. Laeisz of Hamburg, producer of the Flying P-Liner sailing ships, is established.
- The Kurhaus of Baden-Baden in Germany is designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
- Principality of Reuss-Lobenstein-Ebersdorf established
Births
- March 12 â Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
- March 22 â Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer (d. 1906)
- March 27 â Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (d. 1914)
- June 7 â Bernhard von Gudden, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1886)
- August 26 â Marie Simon, German nurse (d. 1877)[12]
- November 24 â Frederick Miller, German-born American brewer, businessman (d. 1888)
Deaths
- January 29 â Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, wife of Charles Edward Stuart (b. 1752)
- February 9 â Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (b. 1774)
- May 15 â Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen, German statesman (b. 1763)