1869 in Germany
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Events from the year 1869 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 May â The German Alpine Club is founded
- 15 June â The Second German North Polar Expedition departs from Bremerhaven
- 20 August â Kunsthalle Hamburg opened.
- 5 September â The foundation stone is laid for Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.[1][2]
Undated
- First Deutsches Derby horse race takes place.[3]
Births
- 25 January â Max Hoffmann, German general (died 1927)
- 3 February â Johann Becker, German politician (died 1951)
- 8 March â Rudolf Wissell, politician (died 1962)
- 15 February â Hans Schrader, German archaeologist (died 1948)
- 11 May â Erhard Riecke, German dermatologist and venereologist (died 1939)
- 12 May â Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast (died 1946)
- 18 May â Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1955)
- 29 May â Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, German diplomat (died 1928)
- 6 June â Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor (died 1930)
- 27 June â Hans Spemann, German embryologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1941)
- 13 August â Paul Behncke, German admiral (died 1937)
- 31 August â Carl von Opel, German automotive pioneer (died 1927)
- 22 October â Oskar Hergt, German politician (died 1967)
- 4 November â Fritz Schumacher, German architect (died 1947)
- 4 December â Otto Landsberg, German politician (died 1957)
Deaths
- 19 January â Carl Reichenbach, German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher (born 1788)
- 8 February â Karl Gildemeister, German architect (born 1820)
- 10 March â Carl Theodor Welcker, German journalist and politician (born 1790)
- 11 March â Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German nobleman (born 1798)
- 2 April â Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (born 1801)
- 15 July â Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker, German publisher (born 1781)
- 22 July â Julius Braun, German historian (born 1825)
- 12 November â Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789), died in Italy
- 22 November â Carl Ferdinand Langhans, German architect (born 1782)
- 24 November â Anton Westermann, German philologist (born 1806)