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1878 in Germany

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1878
in
Germany

Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:Other events of 1878
History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1878 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • KaiserWilliam I
  • ChancellorOtto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of BadenFrederick I
  • Grand Duke of HesseLouis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SchwerinFrederick Francis II
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-StrelitzFrederick William
  • Grand Duke of OldenburgPeter II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-EisenachCharles Alexander

Principalities

Duchies

  • Duke of AnhaltFrederick I, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of BrunswickWilliam, Duke of Brunswick
  • Duke of Saxe-AltenburgErnst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaErnst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-MeiningenGeorg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Events

Births

  • 4 JanuaryGerdt von Bassewitz, German playwright and actor (died 1923)
  • 16 MarchClemens August Graf von Galen, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1946)
  • 1 AprilCarl Sternheim, German playwright and short story writer (died 1942)
  • 6 AprilErich Mühsam, German poet and playwright (died 1934)
  • 21 AprilAlbert Weisgerber, German painter (died 1915)
  • 10 MayGustav Stresemann, Chancellor 1923, Foreign Minister 1923–29, Nobel laureate (died 1929)
  • 30 MayHermine Körner, German actress (died 1960)
  • 4 JuneLudwig Dürr, German airship designer (died 1956)
  • 16 JulyAndreas Hermes, German politician (died 1964)
  • 26 JulyErnst Hoppenberg, German swimmer (died 1937)
  • 10 AugustAlfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and writer (died 1957)
  • 13 AugustArthur Biram, Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator (died 1967)
  • 17 AugustPaul Troost, German architect (died 1934)
  • 2 SeptemberWerner von Blomberg, German Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces (died 1946)
  • 16 SeptemberKarl Albiker, German sculptor (died 1961)
  • 26 SeptemberKurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (died 1943)
  • 29 OctoberAlexander von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1966)
  • 30 OctoberArthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer (died 1929)
  • 21 NovemberGustav Radbruch, German legal scholar and politician (died 1949)
  • 15 DecemberHans Carossa, German novelist (died 1956)
  • 30 DecemberRudolf Petersen, German politician (died 1962)

Deaths

  • 8 MarchWilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (born 1820)
  • 20 MarchJulius von Mayer, German physician and physicist (born 1814)
  • 23 MarchErnst Keil, German journalist and publisher (born 1816)
  • 25 MayAndreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician and physicist (born )
  • 12 JuneGeorge V of Hanover, last King of Hanover (born 1819)
  • 12 SeptemberFriedrich August von Alberti, German geologist (born )
  • 25 SeptemberAugust Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (born 1822)
  • 4 OctoberJohannes Rebmann, German missionary (born 1820)
  • 4 NovemberLudwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist and mineralogist (born 1820)
  • 17 NovemberKarl Theodor Keim, Protestant theologian (born 1825)
  • 10 DecemberHeinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (born 1820)
  • 16 DecemberRichard Hartmann, German engineering manufacturer (born 1809)

References


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