1878 in Germany
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Events from the year 1878 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 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 ââ George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Events
- 13 July â Congress of Berlin[1]
- 13 Julyâ Treaty of Berlin[2][3]
- 30 July â German federal election, 1878
- 19 October â First Anti-Socialist law passed by the German Reichstag
Births
- 4 January â Gerdt von Bassewitz, German playwright and actor (died 1923)
- 16 March â Clemens August Graf von Galen, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1946)
- 1 April â Carl Sternheim, German playwright and short story writer (died 1942)
- 6 April â Erich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (died 1934)
- 21 April â Albert Weisgerber, German painter (died 1915)
- 10 May â Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923â29, Nobel laureate (died 1929)
- 30 May â Hermine Körner, German actress (died 1960)
- 4 June â Ludwig Dürr, German airship designer (died 1956)
- 10 July â Otto Freundlich, German painter, sculptor (died 1943)
- 16 July â Andreas Hermes, German politician (died 1964)
- 26 July â Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (died 1937)
- 10 August â Alfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and writer (died 1957)
- 13 August â Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator (died 1967)
- 17 August â Paul Troost, German architect (died 1934)
- 2 September â Werner von Blomberg, German Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (died 1946)
- 16 September â Karl Albiker, German sculptor (died 1961)
- 26 September â Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (died 1943)
- 29 October â Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1966)
- 30 October â Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer (died 1929)
- 21 November â Gustav Radbruch, German legal scholar and politician (died 1949)
- 15 December â Hans Carossa, German novelist (died 1956)
- 30 December â Rudolf Petersen, German politician (died 1962)
Deaths
- 8 March â Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (born 1820)
- 20 March â Julius von Mayer, German physician and physicist (born 1814)
- 23 March â Ernst Keil, German journalist and publisher (born 1816)
- 25 May â Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician and physicist (born 1796)
- 12 June â George V of Hanover, last King of Hanover (born 1819)
- 12 September â Friedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (born 1795)
- 25 September â August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (born 1822)
- 4 October â Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (born 1820)
- 4 November â Ludwig Meyn, German agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist and mineralogist (born 1820)
- 17 November â Karl Theodor Keim, Protestant theologian (born 1825)
- 10 December â Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (born 1820)
- 14 December - Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1843 in the United Kingdom)
- 16 December â Richard Hartmann, German engineering manufacturer (born 1809)