1858 in Germany

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	Other events of 1858; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1858 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who has suffered a stroke.
January 25 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional, after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria 's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal , to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St James's Palace , London.^[2]

January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator, photographer (d. 1929)
February 18 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (d. 1924 )
February 24 - Friedrich Schrempf, German editor, politician (d. 1913)
March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor, automotive pioneer (d. 1913)
March 23 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
March 27 – Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician, bacteriologist (d. 1945)
April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)^[3]
July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
November 10 – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (d. 1928)
December 19 – Adolf Schiel, German-born officer in Boer armed forces (d. 1903)

^ William Harrison De Puy (1881). The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge...Down to the Year 1881. p. 916.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Accademia nazionale dei Lincei (2001). Max Planck, L'inizio Della Nuova Fisica: Convegno Internazionale. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 13. ISBN 978-88-218-0848-7.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gossner, Johannes Evangelista". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.