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1879 in Germany

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Events from the year 1879 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 IV
  • 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

  • 12 July – The German tariff of 1879 is voted for by a majority of 100 in the Reichstag.
  • 21 June – German chemical company Linde is founded.
  • 31 May – German inventor Werner von Siemens demonstrates the first electric locomotive using an external power source at Berlin.
  • 26 September – Wilhelm Marr founds the Antisemitenliga (League of Antisemites), the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.
  • 7 October – A defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary is created by treaty.
  • 31 December – Karl Benz produces a two-stroke gas engine.

Births

  • 4 February – Wilhelm von Gayl, German politician (died 1945)
  • 25 February – Julius Falkenstein, German actor (died 1933)
  • 2 March – Johann Viktor Bredt, German jurist and politician (died 1940)
  • 8 March – Otto Hahn, German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died 1968)
  • 9 March – Agnes Miegel, German poet (died 1964)
  • 10 March – Hans Luther, German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died 1962)
  • 12 March – Alfred Abel, German actor (died 1837)
  • 14 March – Albert Einstein, German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity (died 1955)
  • 27 April – Alfred Roth, German politician and writer (died 1948)
  • 31 May – F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (died 1956)
  • 28 May – Albert Grzesinski, German politician (died 1948)
  • 6 September
    • Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936)
    • Joseph Wirth, German politician, former Chancellor of Germany (died 1956)
  • 9 October – Max von Laue, German physicist (died 1960)
  • 28 October – Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (died 1942)
  • 29 October – Franz von Papen, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)
  • 1 November – Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer (died 1936)
  • 14 December – Hermann Dietrich, German politician (died 1954)
  • 16 December – Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye, German fashion designer (died 1959)

Deaths

  • 24 January – Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (born 1814
  • 23 February – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born 1803)
  • 25 February – Karl Wilhelm von Willisen, Prussian general (born 1790)
  • 13 March – Adolf Anderssen, German chess master (born 1818)
  • 4 April – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803)
  • 11 May – Bernhard Wolff, German newspaper publisher (born 1811)
  • 15 May – Gottfried Semper, German architect (born 1803)
  • 5 June – August Krönig, German chemist and physicist (born 1822)
  • 7 September – George Westermann, German publisher (born 1810)
  • 23 August – Alexander Duncker, German publisher (born 1813)
  • 20 October – Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, German diplomat and politician (born 1815)
  • 1 December – Franz Ittenbach, German painter (born 1813)

References

References

  1. Zimmermann, Moshe. "Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism". Oxford University Press.
  2. {{Cite CE1913. Williamson. George Charles
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