1880 in Germany
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Events from the year 1880 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 to 17 July, then Charles Gonthier, 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
- 3 April â German company Munich Re is founded.
- 14 August â Construction of the Cologne Cathedral is finally completed after over 600 years.
Undated
- German company Bilfinger is founded.
Births
- 8 February â Franz Marc, German painter (died 1916)[1]
- 21 February â Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
- 10 April â Hans Purrmann, German painter (died 1966)
- 6 May â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer (died 1938)
- 14 May â Wilhelm List, German field marshal (died 1971)
- 15 May â F. K. Otto Dibelius, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1967)
- 29 May â Oswald Spengler, German historian (died 1936)
- 25 June â Erich Emminger, German politician (died 1951)
- 29 June â Ludwig Beck, German general (died 1944)
- 1 July â Herbert Koch, German archaeologist (died 1962)
- 3 July â Carl Schuricht, German conductor (died 1967)
- 11 July
- Dorothea Köring, German tennis player (died 1945)
- Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (died 1964)
- 12 July â Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, Prussian nobleman (died 1925)
- 5 August â Hermann Lüdemann, German politician (died 1959)
- 30 August â Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1950)
- 14 September â Karl Kimmich, German banker (died 1945)
- 28 September â Otto Sackur, German physical chemist (died 1914)
- 14 October â Bruno Heinemann, German officer (died 1918)
- 1 November â Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist (died 1930)
- 11 November â Alexander Behm, German physicist (died 1952)[2]
- 20 November â Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919)
- 3 December â Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (died 1945)
Deaths
- 4 January â Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (born 1829)
- 4 January â Karl Friedrich Lessing, German painter (born 1808)
- 12 January â Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, German author and novelist (born 1805)
- 12 February â Karl von Holtei, German poet and actor (born 1798)
- 15 February â Ernst August Hagen, German writer and novelist (born 1797)
- 17 February â Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, German chemist (born 1841)
- 29 March â Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher (born 1819)
- 6 May â Friedrich Bayer, German entrepreneur (born 1825)
- 22 May â Heinrich von Gagern, German politician (born 1799)[3]
- 13 June â Heinrich Strack, German architect (born 1805)
- 18 August - Baron Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten, German attorney and politician (born 1811)
- 30 August â Hermann Anschütz, German painter (born 1802)
- 13 December â Martin Gropius, German architect (born 1824)
