1876 in Germany

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Events from the year 1876 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 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 – Gonthier Frederick Charles II, 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

• 13–17 August – Opening of Bayreuth Festival
• 26 September – German company Henkel is founded.

Science

• Robert Koch demonstrates that Bacillus anthracis is the source of anthrax, the first bacterium conclusively shown to cause disease.
• Koller's sickle in avian gastrulation is first described by August Rauber.
• Meiosis is discovered and described for the first time in sea urchin eggs by the German biologist Oscar Hertwig.

Births

• 3 January – Wilhelm Pieck, German politician (died 1960)
• 5 January – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1967)
• 9 January – Hans Bethge, German poet (died 1946)
• 23 January – Otto Diels, German chemist (died 1954)
• 25 January – Herbert Eulenberg, German author and poet (died 1949)
• 8 February – Paula Modersohn-Becker (died 1907)
• 1 March – Arthur Ruppin, Jewish Palestinian Zionist leader (died 1943)
• 14 March – Otto Röhm, German pharmacist (died 1939)
• 7 April - Heinrich Tessenow, German architect (died 1950)
• 15 April – Friedrich Radszuweit, German publisher and author (died 1932)
• 23 April – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (died 1925)
• 24 April – Erich Raeder, German admiral (died 1960)
• 9 May – Ernst Hardt, German playwright, novelist and poet (died 1947)
• 18 May – Hermann Müller, German politician (died 1931)
• 5 June – Isaac Heinemann, Israeli rabbinical scholar and a professor of literature (died 1957)
• 10 June – William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German nobleman (died 1923)
• 2 July – Wilhelm Cuno, German politician (died 1933)
• 16 July - Alfred Stock, German chemist (died 1946)
• 20 July – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (died 1944)
• 5 September – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (died 1956)
• 15 September – Bruno Walter, German conductor (died 1962)
• 27 September - Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia, Prussian nobleman (died 1939)
• 23 October – Franz Schlegelberger, German jurist and politician (died 1970)
• 6 November – Albert Tafel, German geographer, doctor and explorer (died 1935)
• 17 November – August Sander, German portrait and documentary photographer (died 1964)
• 2 December – Paul Moldenhauer, German lawyer, economist and politician (died 1947)
• 25 December – Adolf Windaus, German chemist (died 1959)

Deaths

• March 14 - Wilhelm Volkhart, German painter (born 1815)
• March 18 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet, translator and liberal agitator (born 1810)
• April 17 - Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz, German zoologist (born 1837)
• June 27 – Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist (born 1796)
• July 18 – Karl Joseph Simrock, German poet and writer (born 1802)
• August 30 - Rudolf von Raumer, German philogist and linguist (born 1815)
• September 25 - Ernst von Bandel, German architect and sculptor (born 1800)
• October 3 – Adolf Stahr, German author and writer (born 1805)
• December 14 - Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis (born 1819)