1852 in Germany
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Incumbents
Event
- 8 May – Prussia signs the 1852 London Protocol, a treaty ending the First Schleswig War by nominally returning Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark, while effectively guaranteeing their independence[1][2]
Births

- 11 January – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
- 2 May – Max von Gallwitz, German general (d. 1937)
- 31 May -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
- 25 June - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (d. 1915)
- 9 October – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 10 December - Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937)
- 19 December – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

Deaths
- 21 June – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782)
- 15 October – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778)
- 17 November – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768)