1831 in Germany
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Events from the year 1831 in Germany
Incumbents
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1797 â 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825â1848)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Anthony (5 May 1827 â 6 June 1836)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- William IV (26 June 1830 to 1837)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (1816â1864)
Events
- 2 May - The Polytechnic Institute, today's Leibniz University Hanover established. Founded on 2 May 1831, it is one of the largest and oldest science and technology universities in Germany.[2]
Births
- 7 January â Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897)
- 26 January â Heinrich Anton de Bary, German botanist, mycologist (d. 1888)
- 24 February â Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
- 8 September â Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (d. 1910)
- 18 September â Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898)
- 6 October â Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- 18 October â Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
Deaths
- 21 January â Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
- 17 February â Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1785)
- 25 February â Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)[3]
- 5 August â Sébastien Ãrard, German-born French instrument maker (b. 1752)
- 24 August â August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
- 28 September â Philippine Engelhard, German writer, scholar (b. 1756)
- 14 November â Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)[4]
- 16 November â Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist (b. 1780)