1873 in Germany

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Events in the year 1873 in Germany.

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 National level 1.2 State level 1.2.1 Kingdoms 1.2.2 Grand Duchies 1.2.3 Principalities 1.2.4 Duchies 2 Events 3 Architecture 4 Arts 4.1 Music 5 Commerce 6 Education 7 Science 8 Transport 9 Births 10 Deaths 11 References

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 — John of Saxony to 29 October, then Albert of Saxony
• King of Württemberg — Charles of Württemberg

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden — Frederick I
• Grand Duke of Hesse — Louis III
• 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 — Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Principality of Lippe — Leopold III, 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 — Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen — Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Events

• 16 September — German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for the Franco-Prussian War.
• 22 October — Bismarck negotiates the League of the Three Emperors, ensuring an alliance between Austria–Hungary and the Russian Empire.

• Kattowitz is created as a district of Prussia.

Architecture

• 2 September — Berlin Victory Column inaugurated to celebrate the Second Schleswig War.

Arts

Music

• Johannes Brahms premieres his String Quartet No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

Commerce

• The Baden gulden, the Bavarian gulden, the Bremen thaler, the Hamburg mark, the Hesse-Kassel vereinsthaler, the Mecklenburg vereinsthaler, the Prussian vereinsthaler, the Saxon vereinsthaler, the South German gulden and the Württemberg gulden are all abolished and replaced with the new single currency of the German Empire, the German gold mark.

Education

• Establishment of the University of the Arts Bremen.
• German language university, the Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, established in Cairo, Egypt.
• Verein für Socialpolitik established.

Science

• Hermann von Helmholtz is awarded the Copley Medal "for his researches in physics and physiology".^[1]

Transport

• Frankfurt South station opened.
• The armoured frigate SMS Preußen is launched.

Births

• 6 January — Karl Straube, organist (d. 1950)
• 13 January — Walther Bensemann, Jewish-German association football pioneer (d. 1934, France)
• 24 January — Hermann Haupt, entomologist (d. 1959)
• 31 January — Melitta Bentz, entrepreneur (d. 1950)
• 26 February — Rudolf Kanzler, German politician (d. 1956)
• 2 February — Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (d. 1956)
• 10 March — Walter Friedländer, art historian (d. 1966)
• 10 March — Jakob Wassermann, Jewish-German novelist (d. 1934)
• 17 March — Wilhelm Kreis, architect (d. 1955)
• 23 March — Richard Kolkwitz, botanist (d. 1956)
• 7 April — Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski, writer (d. 1936)
• 27 April — Robert Wiene, filmmaker (d. 1938)
• 3 May — Richard von Kühlmann, German diplomat (d. 1948)
• 14 May — Theodor von der Pfordten, so-called Nazi 'martyr' (d. 1923)
• 21 May — Hans Berger, neurologist (d. 1941)
• 26 May — Hans Ludendorff, astronomer (d. 1941)
• 7 June — Franz Weidenreich, Jewish-German, later American, anatomist (d. 1948)
• 16 June — Karl von Müller, Naval captain (d. 1923)
• 27 June — Jacob Moritz Blumberg, Jewish-German, later British, surgeon (d. 1955)
• 29 June — Leo Frobenius, ethnologist (d. 1938, Italy)
• 30 June — Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde, botanist (d. 1942)
• 6 August — Otto von Feldmann, Army officer (d. 1945)
• 20 August — Eugen Schmalenbach, economist (d. 1955)
• 15 September — Otto Wels, politician (d. 1939)
• 29 September — Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, zoologist (d. 1950)
• 9 October — Karl Schwarzschild, Jewish-German physicist (d. 1916)
• 10 October — Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, explorer (d. 1969)
• 9 November — Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1951, Argentina)
• 23 November — Otto Berg, chemist (d. 1939)
• 27 December — Rudolf Höber, German-born American physician (d. 1953)
• 28 December — Gotthard Fliegel, geographer (d. 1947)

Deaths

• 2 February - Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, noblewoman (b. 1807)
• 9 February - Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, noblewoman (b. 1792)
• 9 February - Julius Fürst, Jewish-German orientalist (b. 1805)
• 23 February - Jakob Freiherr von Hartmann, Bavarian general (b. 1795)
• 10 March - Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Queen consort of Württemberg (b. 1800)
• 26 March - Albrecht von Bernstorff, Prussian politician (b. 1809)
• 18 April - Justus von Liebig, chemist (b. 1803)
• 24 April - Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian nobleman (b. 1797)
• 12 May - Karl von Bodelschwingh-Velmede, Prussian politician (b. 1800)
• 6 June - Adalbert of Prussia, prince (b. 1811)
• 14 June - Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, historian (b. 1871)
• 21 June - Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, theologian (b. 1800)
• 29 June - Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter, novelist (b. 1816)
• 8 July - Franz Xaver Winterhalter, painter (b. 1805)
• 13 August - Fritz Bamberger (painter), painter (b .1814)
• 18 August - Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, nobleman (b. 1804)
• 22 September - August Breithaupt, mineralogist (b. 1791)
• 10 October - Hermann Kurz, writer (b. 1813)
• 13 October - Emil von Sydow, geographer (b. 1812)
• 29 October - John, King of Saxony (b. 1801)
• 26 November - Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, mineralogist (b. 1797)
• 14 December - Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen consort of Prussia (b. 1801)

References

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