1852 in Germany

Events from the year 1852 in Germany.

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Events

1852

8 May

First Schleswig War: Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom signed the London Protocol, guaranteeing the nominal independence of Schleswig and Holstein in personal union with Denmark and ending the war.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – George V
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Births

Friedrich Loeffler

• January 11 – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
• May 2 – Max von Gallwitz, German general (d. 1937 )
• May 31 -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921 )
• June 25 - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (d. 1915 )
• October 9 – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 ) December 10
• Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937 )
• December 19 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )

Hermann Emil Fischer

Deaths

• June 21 – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782)
• October 15 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778 )
• November 17 – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768 )