1874 in Germany

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Events in the year 1874 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 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

• 10 January – German federal election, 1874

Date unknown

• German company HeidelbergCement is founded

Science

• Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers") is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.

Births

• 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929)
• 16 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945)
• 7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor (died 1945)
• 15 April – Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
• 3 May – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (died 1932)
• 4 May – Bernhard Hoetger, German painter (died 1949)
• 2 June – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (died 1943)
• 5 July – Eugen Fischer, German physician (died 1967)
• 7 July – Erwin Bumke, German judge (died 1945)
• 17 July – Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician (died 1930)
• 28 July – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (died 1945)
• 29 July – August Stramm, German poet and playwright (died 1915)
• 27 August – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
• 21 September – Karl Jarres, German politician (died 1951)
• 15 October - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman (died 1899)
• 16 October – Otto Mueller, German painter (died 1930)
• 17 October – Ludwig Siebert, German politician (died 1942)
• 1 November - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (died 1954)
• 14 November – Adolf Brand, German writer (died 1945)
• 17 November – Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur (died 1946)
• 11 December - Paul Wegener, German actor (died 1948)
• 14 December – Adam Stegerwald, German politician (died 1945)
• 26 December – Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (died 1937)

Deaths

• 5 January - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
• 14 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist (born 1834)
• 19 January – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born 1798)
• 26 February - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (born 1819)
• 1 April – August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, Gernan statesman (born 1797)
• 7 April - Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (born 1805)
• 20 April – Gustav Bläser, German sculptor (born 1813)
• 23 October – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism (born 1810)
• 2 November - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
• 15 November - Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher (born 1804)
• 7 December - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (born 1815)
• 27 December – Ernst Litfaß, German printer and publisher (born 1816)