1882 in Germany
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Events in the year 1882 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 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
- 24 March â the Tuberculosis bacillus causing tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, was identified and described by Robert Koch.
- 28 March â German company Beiersdorf was founded.
- 29 April â the Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany.
- 20 May â Triple Alliance
- 23 June â Kiel Week in Kiel started.
Births
- 24 February â Richard Beitzen, German Naval officer (died 1918)
- 10 March â Hans Steinhoff, German film director (died 1945)
- 16 March â Paul Lejeune-Jung, German economist and politician (died 1944)
- 23 March
- Emmy Noether, German mathematician (died 1935)
- Max Gülstorff, German actor (died 1947)
- 2 April â Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (died 1955)
- 7 April â Kurt von Schleicher, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1934)
- 9 April â Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1945)
- 6 May â Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (died 1951)
- 10 May â Friedrich Marby, German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist (died 1966)
- 12 May â Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman (died 1904)
- 25 May â Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (died 1951)
- 4 June â Karl Valentin, German actor and comedian (died 1948)
- 27 June â Eduard Spranger, German philosopher (died 1963)
- 29 June â Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (died 1947)[1]
- 23 July â Georg Jacoby, German film director and screenwriter (died 1964)
- 26 August â James Franck, German physicist (died 1964)
- 2 September â Max Bockmühl, German chemist (died 1949)
- 22 September â Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (died 1946)
- 24 September â Karl Rapp, German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich.(died 1962)
- 26 September â Eduard von der Heydt, German banker (died 1964)
- 30 September â Hans Geiger, German physicist (died 1945)
- 12 October - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor (died 1954)
- 15 October â Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general and resistance fighter (died 1944)
- 24 October â Paul Günther, German diver (died 1959)
- 30 October â Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (died 1944)
- 11 December â Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (died 1970)
- 14 December â Wilhelm Keppler, German businessman (died 1960)
- 16 December
- Ernst Lissauer, German poet (died 1937)
- Walther Meissner, German physicist (died 1974)
Deaths
- 11 January â Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (born 1810)
- 13 January â Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist (born 1834)
- 6 April â Friedrich Drake, German sculptor (born 1805)
- 29 May â Doris Devrient, German actress and singer (born 1801)[2]
- 16 September â Theodore Eisfeld, German conductor (born 1816)
- 23 September â Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (born 1800)
- 11 November â Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, German mineralogist and writer (born 1803)
- 13 November - Gottfried Kinkel, German poet (born 1815)
- 26 November â Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian Prime Minister (born 1805)
- 5 December â Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, German biologist (born 1807)
