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1874 in Germany

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Events in the year 1874 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Emperor – William I
  • Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

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

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

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 January –Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927)
  • 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929)
  • 19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933)
  • 20 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)
  • 20 April – Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat (died 1935)
  • 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)
  • 12 September – Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor (died 1966)
  • 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, German 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)

References

References

  1. Leon, Steven M.. (2013). "Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Casebook: Applications in SCM". Pearson Education.
  2. (1999). "Math and mathematicians: the history of math discoveries around the world". U X L.
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