1882 in Germany

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Events in the year 1882 in Germany.

Incumbents[]

National level[]

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level[]

Kingdoms[]

King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria
King of Prussia – Kaiser William I
King of Saxony – Albert of Saxony
King of Württemberg – Charles I of Württemberg

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[]

Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, 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[]

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[]

24 March – the Tuberculosis bacillus causing tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, was identified and described by Robert Koch.
28 March – German company Beiersdorf was founded.
29 April – the Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany.
20 May – Triple Alliance
23 June – Kiel Week in Kiel started.

Births[]

24 February – Richard Beitzen, German Naval officer (died 1918)
10 March – Hans Steinhoff, German film director (died 1945)
16 March – Paul Lejeune-Jung, German economist and politician (died 1944)
23 March – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (died 1935)
23 March – Max Gülstorff, German actor (died 1947)
2 April – Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (died 1955)
7 April – Kurt von Schleicher, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1934)
9 April – Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1945)
6 May – Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (died 1951)
10 May – Friedrich Marby, German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist (died 1966)
12 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman (died 1904)
25 May – Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (died 1951)
4 June – Karl Valentin, German actor and comedian (died 1948)
27 June – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher (died 1963)
29 June – Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (died 1947)
23 July – Georg Jacoby, German film director and screenwriter (died 1964)
26 August – James Franck, German physicist (died 1964)
2 September – Max Bockmühl, German chemist (died 1949)
22 September – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (died 1946)
24 September – Karl Rapp, German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich.(died 1962)
26 September – Eduard von der Heydt, German banker (died )
30 September – Hans Geiger, German physicist (died 1945)
12 October - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German comoser and conductor (died 1954)
15 October – Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general and resistance fighter (died 1944)
24 October – Paul Günther, German diver (died 1959)
30 October – Günther von Kluge, German field marshall (died 1944)
11 December – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (died 1970)
14 December – Wilhelm Keppler, German businessman (died 1960)
16 December – Ernst Lissauer, German poet (died 1937)
16 December – Walther Meissner, German physicist (died 1974)

Deaths[]

11 January — Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (born 1810)
13 January – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist (born 1834)
6 April – Friedrich Drake, German sculptor (born 1805)
16 September – Theodore Eisfeld, German conductor (born 1816)
23 September – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (born 1800)
11 November – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, German mineralogist and writer (born 1803)
13 November - Gottfried Kinkel, German poet (born 1815)
26 November – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian Prime Minister (born 1805)
5 December – Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, German biologist (born 1807)

References[]

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