1848 in Germany

Events from the year 1848 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I. (until 20 March 1848); Maximilian II (since 20 March 1848)
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Events

• 17 March - Poem In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit was written in London by German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath.
• February - Publication of The Communist Manifesto
• April - Hecker uprising in Baden
• 9 April - Battle of Bov
• 9 April - Foundation of Münchner Neueste Nachrichten
• 20 April - Battle on the Scheideck
• 23 April - Battle of Schleswig
• 23 April - Battle of Mysunde
• 24 April - Skirmish of Oversø
• 1 May - 1848 German federal election
• 7 May - Start of magazine Kladderadatsch
• 11 May - Baden mutiny
• 18 May - 379 deputies assembled in the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt am Main walked solemnly to the Paulskirche to hold the first session of the German national assembly, under its chairman (by seniority) . Heinrich von Gagern became first elected president of Frankfurt Parliament.^[1]
• 1 June - Foundation of Neue Rheinische Zeitung
• 24 June - President of the National Assembly Heinrich von Gagern argued for a regency and provisional central government to carry out parliamentary decisions.
• 25 June - Forming of Casino faction in Frankfurt Parliament: Factions in the Frankfurt Assembly
• 21 September - Struve Putsch: Proclamation of the German Republic by Gustav Struve in Lörrach
• 21 October - Würzburg Bishops' Conference
• 5 December - Promulgated of Constitution of Prussia (1848)

Undated

• Forty-Eighters
• German revolutions of 1848–1849
• Baden Revolution
• Foundation of Piusverein
• Painting Gnome Watching Railway Train by Carl Spitzweg
• Painting Germania (St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main)
• Opera Regina by German composer Albert Lortzing

Births

• 10 January - Paul Tschackert, German Protestant theologian (died 1911)
• 12 January - Franz von Soxhlet, German agricultural chemist (died 1926)
• 2 February - Ludwig Dill, German painter (died 1940)
• 4 February - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, German nobleman and politician (died 1933)
• 5 February - Louis Schmeisser, German weapon technical designer (died 1917)
• 6 February - Wilhelm von Finck, German banker and entrepreneur (died 1924)
• 7 February - Adolf Weil, German physician (died 1916)
• 13 February – Hermann von Eichhorn, German field marshal (died 1918)
• 25 February – King William II of Württemberg (died 1921)
• 3 March - Gustav Fischer, German explorer (died 1886)
• 27 April – King Otto of Bavaria (died 1916)
• 23 May - Otto Lilienthal, German engineer, aviation pioneer (died 1896)
• 23 May - Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, German general (died 1916)
• 3 July – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander (died 1920)
• 22 July - Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914)
• 7 September - Berta Behrens, German novelist (died 1912)
• 8 September – Viktor Meyer, German chemist (died 1897)
• 18 September - Maximilian Nitze, German urologist (died 1916)
• 20 September – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder (died 1919)
• 8 November – Gottlob Frege, German logician (died 1925)
• 23 November - Habbo Gerhard Lolling, German archaeologist (died 1894)
• 27 November – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general (died 1917)
• 22 December - Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, German classical philologist (died 1931)

Deaths

• 9 January – Caroline Herschel, German astronomer (born )
• 22 January - Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider, German Protestant scholar and theologian (born )
• 15 February – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (born )
• 22 February – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German woman balloonist (born )
• 24 May – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (born )
• 10 July – Karoline Jagemann, German actress (born )
• 18 September - Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald, Prussian general (born )
• 9 November – Robert Blum, German politician (born 1810)
• 28 November - Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, German noblewoman (born 1799)
• 16 December - Bruno Erhard Abegg, German politician and statesman (born 1803)
• 31 December - Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, German philogist (born )
• undated - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer in Australia (born 1813)

External links

• Bundestag.de: Revolution und Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/1849 (German)
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Revolution von 1848 (German)

References