1876 in Germany
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See also: | Other events of 1876 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1876 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
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
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- 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)
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