1844 in Germany
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Events in the year 1844 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 March â opening of GöÃnitz station
Undated
Establishments
Births
- 3 January â Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920)
- 16 January â Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911)
- 14 February â Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915)
- 10 March â Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905)
- 25 March â Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930)
- 3 April â Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899)
- 30 April â Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924)
- 17 May â Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (died 1918)
- 6 August â Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
- 30 August â Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (died 1904)
- 13 September â Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1936)
- 15 October â Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist (died 1900)[1]
- 24 November â Friedrich Jolly, neurologist (died 1904)
- 25 November â Carl Benz, German engine designer and automobile engineer (died 1929)[2]
Deaths
- 8 March â Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, pastellist (born 1784)
- 11 May â Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs, apothecary and natural history collector (born 1792)[3]
- 16 May â Joseph Knauer, Bishop of Wroclaw (born 1764)[4]
- 4 August â Christian Friedrich Illgen, Protestant theologian (born 1786)