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Events from the year 1879 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Kaiser – William I
  • Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

  • Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
  • Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis IV
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
  • Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

Principalities

Duchies

  • Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
  • Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick
  • Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Events

  • 12 July – The German tariff of 1879 is voted for by a majority of 100 in the Reichstag.
  • 21 June – German company Linde was founded.
  • 31 May – German inventor Werner von Siemens demonstrates the first electric locomotive using an external power source at Berlin.
  • 7 October – A defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary is created by treaty.
  • 31 December – Karl Benz produces a two-stroke gas engine.

Births

  • 4 February – Wilhelm von Gayl, German politician (died 1945)
  • 25 February – Julius Falkenstein, German actor (died 1933)
  • 2 March – Johann Viktor Bredt, German jurist and politician (died 1940)
  • 8 March – Otto Hahn, German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died 1968)
  • 9 March – Agnes Miegel, German poet (died 1964)
  • 10 March – Hans Luther, German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died 1962)
  • 12 March – Alfred Abel, German actor (died 1837)
  • 14 March – Albert Einstein, German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity (died 1955)
  • 27 April – Alfred Roth, German politician and writer (died 1948)
  • 31 May – F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (died 1956)
  • 28 May – Albert Grzesinski, German politician (died 1948)
  • 6 September
    • Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936)
    • Joseph Wirth, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1956)
  • 9 October – Max von Laue, German physicist (died 1960)
  • 28 October – Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (died 1942)
  • 29 October – Franz von Papen, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)
  • 1 November – Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer (died 1936)
  • 14 December – Hermann Dietrich, German politician (died 1954)
  • 16 December – Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye, German fashion designer (died 1959)

Deaths

  • 24 January – Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (born 1814
  • 23 February – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born 1803)
  • 25 February – Karl Wilhelm von Willisen, Prussian general (born )
  • 13 March – Adolf Anderssen, German chess master (born 1818)
  • 4 April – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803)
  • 11 May – Bernhard Wolff, German newspaper publisher (born 1811)
  • 15 May – Gottfried Semper, German architect (born )
  • 5 June – August Krönig, German chemist and physicist (born 1822)
  • 7 September – George Westermann, German publisher (born 1810)
  • 23 August – Alexander Duncker, German publisher (born 1813)
  • 20 October – Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, German diplomat and politician (born 1815)
  • 1 December – Franz Ittenbach, German painter (born 1813)[1]

References

  1. ^ Williamson, George Charles (1913). "Franz Ittenbach" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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