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HOW IT WORKS
1872 in Germany
Summary
Events from the year
1872 in
Germany
.
←
1871
1870
1869
1872
in
Germany
→
1873
1874
1875
Decades:
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
See also:
Other events of 1872
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
National level
edit
Kaiser
–
William I
Chancellor
–
Otto von Bismarck
State level
edit
Kingdoms
edit
King of Bavaria
–
Ludwig II
King of Prussia
– William I
King of Saxony
–
John
King of Württemberg
–
Charles
Grand Duchies
edit
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
edit
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
edit
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
edit
4 July
–
Jesuits Law
is promulgated
12 November
–
Dresdner Bank
is founded
Science
edit
Richard Dedekind
publishes
Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen
, a theory of irrational numbers.
Felix Klein
produces the Erlangen program on geometries.
Ludwig Boltzmann
states the
Boltzmann equation
for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem.
Polyvinyl chloride
is accidentally synthesised by German chemist
Eugen Baumann
.
Undated
edit
Radeberger Brewery
is opened
Deaths
edit
11 January
–
Paul Graener
, German composer and conductor (died
1944
)
28 January
–
Otto Braun
, German politician (died
1955
)
8 February
–
Theodor Lessing
, German philosopher (died 1933)
24 March
–
Walther Reinhardt
, Army officer (died
1930
)
1 April
–
Conrad Gröber
, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died
1948
)
9 April
–
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
, German ethnologue and explorer (died
1924
)
19 April
–
Alice Salomon
, German social reformer (died
1948
)
[1]
22 April
–
Princess Margaret of Prussia
, Prussian princess (died
1954
)
2 May
–
Karl Nessler
, German inventor of the permanent wave (died
1951
)
14 June
–
Heinrich Vogeler
, German painter (died
1942
)
22 July
–
Karl Helfferich
, German politician (died
1924
)
13 August
–
Richard Willstätter
, German chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
1942
)
5 September
–
Carl Friedrich von Siemens
, German entrepreneur (died
1941
)
3 October
–
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
, German scientist and inventor (died
1931
)
9 November
–
Richard Otto
, German physician (died
1952
)
11 November
–
Frederick Stock
, German composer (died
1942
)
Births
edit
1 April
–
Hugo von Mohl
, German botanist (born
1805
)
13 May
–
Moritz Hartmann
, German poet and author (born
1821
)
24 May
–
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
, German painter (born 1794)
21 August
–
David Kalisch
, German playwright and humorist (born
1820
)
13 September
–
Ludwig Feuerbach
, German philosopher and anthropologist (born
1804
)
14 October
–
Prince Albert of Prussia
, German nobleman and Prussian general (born
1809
)
References
edit
^
Schlör, Joachim (2005).
Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822-1938
(in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 359.
ISBN
978-3-52556-990-0
.