1872 in Germany
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Events from the year 1872 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
- Emperor â William I
- Chancellor â Otto von Bismarck
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig II
- King of Prussia â William I
- King of Saxony â John
- King of Württemberg â Charles
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe â Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line â Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line â Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont â George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Events
- 4 July â Jesuits Law is promulgated
- 12 November â Dresdner Bank is founded
Science
- Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers.
- Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries.
- Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem.
- Polyvinyl chloride is accidentally synthesised by German chemist Eugen Baumann.
Undated
- Radeberger Brewery is opened
Births
- 11 January
- Georg Karo, German archaeologist (died 1963)
- Paul Graener, German composer and conductor (died 1944)
- 19 January â Heinrich Laufenberg, German politician and historian (died 1932)
- 23 January â Paul Mebes, German architect (died 1938)
- 28 January â Otto Braun, German politician (died 1955)
- 8 February â Theodor Lessing, German philosopher (died 1933)
- 2 March â Rudolf Helm, German classical philologist (died 1966)
- 3 March
- Wilhelm Ahrens, German mathematician (died 1927)
- Frida Felser, opera singer and actress (died 1941).[1]
- 10 March â Camillo Schumann, German composer and organist (died 1946)
- 13 March â Joseph Rosemeyer, German track cyclist (died 1919)
- 20 March â Bernhard Goldenberg, German engineer (died 1917)
- 24 March â Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (died 1930)
- 1 April â Conrad Gröber, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948)
- 5 April â Emmy von Egidy, German sculptor and writer (died 1946)
- 9 April â Theodor Koch-Grunberg, German ethnologue and explorer (died 1924)
- 19 April â Alice Salomon, German social reformer (died 1948)[2]
- 22 April â Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1954)
- 25 April â Albrecht Bethe. Germany physiologist (died 1954)
- 2 May â Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (died 1951)
- 14 June â Heinrich Vogeler, German painter (died 1942)
- 22 July â Karl Helfferich, German politician (died 1924)
- 13 August â Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
- 5 September â Carl Friedrich von Siemens, German entrepreneur (died 1941)
- 3 October â Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, German scientist and inventor (died 1931)
- 9 November â Richard Otto, German physician (died 1952)
- 11 November â Frederick Stock, German composer (died 1942)
Deaths
- 1 April â Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (born 1805)
- 13 May â Moritz Hartmann, German poet and author (born 1821)
- 24 May â Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
- 21 August â David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (born 1820)
- 13 September â Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher and anthropologist (born 1804)
- 14 October â Prince Albert of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1809)
