1874 in Germany
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Events in the year 1874 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 Albert
- 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
Date unknown
- German company HeidelbergCement is founded.[1]
Science
- Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers") is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.[2]
Births
- 1 January âGustav Albin WeiÃkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927)
- 1 February â Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929)
- 19 February â Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933)
- 20 March â Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945)
- 7 April â Friedrich KayÃler, German actor (died 1945)
- 15 April â Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
- 20 April â Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat (died 1935)
- 3 May â Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (died 1932)
- 4 May â Bernhard Hoetger, German painter (died 1949)
- 2 June â Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (died 1943)
- 5 July â Eugen Fischer, German physician (died 1967)
- 7 July â Erwin Bumke, German judge (died 1945)
- 17 July â Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician (died 1930)
- 28 July â Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (died 1945)
- 29 July â August Stramm, German poet and playwright (died 1915)
- 27 August â Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 12 September â Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor (died 1966)
- 21 September â Karl Jarres, German politician (died 1951)
- 15 October - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman (died 1899)
- 16 October â Otto Mueller, German painter (died 1930)
- 17 October â Ludwig Siebert, German politician (died 1942)
- 1 November - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (died 1954)
- 14 November â Adolf Brand, German writer (died 1945)
- 17 November â Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur (died 1946)
- 11 December - Paul Wegener, German actor (died 1948)
- 14 December â Adam Stegerwald, German politician (died 1945)
- 26 December â Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (died 1937)
Deaths
- 5 January - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
- 14 January â Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist (born 1834)
- 19 January â August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born 1798)
- 26 February - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (born 1819)
- 1 April â August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, German statesman (born 1797)
- 7 April - Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (born 1805)
- 20 April â Gustav Bläser, German sculptor (born 1813)
- 23 October â Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism (born 1810)
- 2 November - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
- 15 November - Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher (born 1804)
- 7 December - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (born 1815)
- 27 December â Ernst LitfaÃ, German printer and publisher (born 1816)