1877 in Germany
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Events in the year 1877 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig II[3]
- King of Prussia â William I[1]
- King of Saxony â Albert[4]
- King of Württemberg â Charles
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden â Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse â Louis III to 13 June, then Louis IV
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin â Frederick Francis II
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz â Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg â Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach â Charles Alexander
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Gonthier Frederick Charles II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe â Woldemar, 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
- 10 January â German federal election, 1877
- Summer â Kissingen Dictation
Date unknown
- German company Blohm+Voss is founded.
Births
- 22 January â Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. (died 1970)
- 7 February â Julius Curtius, German (died 1948)
- 8 February â Albert Vögler, German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (died 1945)
- 19 February â Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962)[5]
- 3 March â Alexander Baerwald, German architect (died 1930)
- 4 March â Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)[6]
- 6 March â Karl Platen, German actor (died 1952)
- 12 March â Wilhelm Frick, German politician (died 1946)
- 15 March â Fritz Lang, German painter (died 1961)
- 19 March â Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (died 1947)
- 29 March â Alois Kayser, Alsatian-born missionary (died 1944 in Micronesia)
- 15 April â Georg Kolbe, German painter (died 1947)
- 23 April â Hans Winkler, German botanist (died 1945)
- 4 June â Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1957)
- 2 July â Hermann Hesse, German writer (died 1962)
- 13 September â Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (died 1957)
- 15 September â Wilhelm Adam, German general (died 1949)
- 1 November â Else Ury, German writer (died 1943)
- 23 November â Franz Bracht, German politician (died 1933)
- 4 December â Morris Alexander, South African politician (died 1946 in South Africa)[7]
- 19 December â Princess Pauline of Württemberg (died 1965)
Deaths
- 12 January â Wilhelm Hofmeister, German biologist and botanist (born 1824)
- 18 February - Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, German politician (born 1795)
- 20 February - Marie Simon, German nurse (born 1824)[8]
- 22 February - Eduard Gaertner, German painter (born 1801)
- 18 April â Franz Hanfstaengl, German photograph and painter (born 1804)
- 22 April - August Wilhelm Zumpt, German German classical scholar (born 1815)
- 11 May â Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, German general (born 1805)
- 25 May â Friedrich Thyssen, German banker and patriarch of the Thyssen family dynasty (born 1804)
- 13 June â Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, nobleman (born 1806)
- 13 July â Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1811)
- 14 July - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician (born 1795)
- 12 September â Julius Rietz, German conductor and composer (born 1812)
- 26 September â Hermann Grassmann (born 1809)
- 18 October â Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German anthropologist and paleoanthropologist (born 1803)
- 2 November â Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, German Generalfeldmarschall (born 1784)
- 26 November â Richard Lucae, German architect (born 1829)
- 18 December â Philipp Veit, German painter (born 1793)
