1862 in Germany explained

Events from the year 1862 in Germany.

Incumbents

King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria
King of Saxony – John
King of Hanover – George V^[1]
King of Prussia – William I
King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I

Events

9 August – Theater Baden-Baden opens with Béatrice et Bénédict.
21 September – Deutscher Sängerbund is founded.
30 September – Otto von Bismarck gives the speech named Blood and Iron in Berlin.

Undated

Landesmuseum Württemberg is opened.

Births

1 January – Heinrich Braun, German surgeon (died 1934)
6 January – August Oetker, German businessman (died 1918)
9 January – Agnes Bluhm, German physician (died 1943)
20 January – Karl von Tubeuf, German forestry scientist, mycologist and plant pathologist (died 1941)
23 January – David Hilbert, German mathematician (died 1943)
24 January – Prince Alfons of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1933)
6 February – Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (died 1946)
22 February – Philipp von Hellingrath, German general (died 1939)
13 March – Wilhelm Weigand, German poet and writer (died 1949)
11 April – Heinrich Cunow, German politician (died 1936)
28 May – Theodor Fischer, German architect (died 1938)
7 June – Philipp Lenard, German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 (died 1947)
12 June – Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist (died 1934)
18 June – Otto Immisch, German philologist (died 1936)
12 August – Martin Brendel, German astronomer (died 1939)
14 August – Prince Henry of Prussia, German Prussian prince (died 1929)
16 August – Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist (died 1937)
20 August – Paul Stäckel, German mathematician (died 1919)
26 August – Theodor Siebs, German linguist (died 1941)
11 September – Augustin Henninghaus, German Roman Catholic missionary (died 1939)
15 September – Friedrich von Lindequist, German gouverneur of German South#West Africa (died 1945)
2 October – Karl Ebermaier, German governeur of Kamerun (died 1943)
4 October – Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician (died 1951)
15 October – Conrad Ansorge, German composer and pianist (died 1930)
14 November – Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German diplomat and ambassador (died 1939)
15 November – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
29 November – Friedrich Klose, German composer (died 1942)
14 December – Gunther von Etzel, German general (died 1948)

Deaths

2 February – Rudolph Suhrlandt, German painter (born 1781)
15 February – Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
3 March – Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, German Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1822)
19 March – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German painter (born 1789)
15 July – Henriette Hanke, German writer (born 1785)
28 August – Albrecht Adam, German painter (born 1786)
12 November – Christian Gottlob Barth, German theologian (born 1799)

Notes and References

Weir, Alison (18 April 2011). "The House of Hanover". Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. Random House. p. 291.