1872 in Germany
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Events from the year 1872 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – Kaiser William I
- King of Saxony – John of Saxony
- King of Württemberg – Charles of Württemberg
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
Events
- July 4 – Jesuits Law is promulgated
- November 12 – Dresdner Bank is founded
Science
- Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers.
- Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries.
- Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem.
- Polyvinyl chloride was accidentally synthesized in 1872 by German chemist Eugen Baumann.
Date unknown
- Radeberger Brewery is opened
Births
- 11 January - Paul Graener, German composer and conductor (died 1944)
- 28 January – Otto Braun , German politician (died 1955)
- 8 February - Theodor Lessing, German philosopher (died 1933)
- 24 March – Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (died 1930)
- 1 April – Conrad Gröber, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948)
- 9 April – Theodor Koch-Grunberg, German ethnologe and explorer (died 1924)
- 2 May – Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (died 1951)
- 14 June – Heinrich Vogeler, German painter (died 1942)
- 22 July – Karl Helfferich, German politician (died 1924)
- 13 August – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
- 5 September – Carl Friedrich von Siemens, German entrepreneur (died 1941)
- 3 October – Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, German scientist and inventor (died 1931)
- 9 November - Richard Otto, German physician (died 1952)
- 11 November - Frederick Stock, German composer (died 1942)
Deaths
- 1 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (born 1805)
- 13 May – Moritz Hartmann, German poet and author (born 1821)
- 24 May - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
- 13 September – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher and anthropologist (born 1804)
- 14 October - Prince Albert of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1809)
References
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