1825 in Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events from the year 1825 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)
- Ludwig I (13 October 1825 â 20 March 1848)
- 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) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826â1834) - 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-Glücksburg
- Frederick William (6 July 1825 â 17 February 1831)
Events
- February â February flood of 1825
- 6 July â The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later becomes the royal house of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
Births
14 July â Adolf Cluss, German-born architect in Washington, D.C. (died 1905)[11]
Deaths
- 23 April â Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
- 13 June â Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (born 1742)
- 12 July â Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, German scholar (b. 1770)
- 13 October â King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (b. 1756)
- 14 November â Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
- 17 November â Daniel Berger, German engraver (born 1744)