Events from the year 1843 in Germany.

Incumbents

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. ...

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Friedrich Wilhelm IV Frederick William IV (german: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 17952 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 7 June 1840 to his death on 2 January 1861. Also referred to ...

(1840–1861) **

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

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Ludwig Gustav von Thile Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and co ...

(1841–1848) *

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German ...

** Monarch –

Ludwig I en, Louis Charles Augustus , image = Joseph Karl Stieler - King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes - WGA21796.jpg , caption = Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1825 , succession=King of Bavaria , reign = , coronation ...

(1825–1848) ** Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847) *

Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxo ...

– Frederick Augustus (1836–1854) *

Kingdom of Hanover The Kingdom of Hanover (german: Königreich Hannover) was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Ha ...

– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851) *

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existe ...

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William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

(1816–1864)

Events

* The

Berlin Peace Column The Peace Column (German: Friedenssäule) is a column located in Mehringplatz in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Christian Gottlieb Cantian and erected in 1843, the 19-meter column is topped with a brass status of Victoria, goddess of victory ...

is a column located in Mehringplatz in Berlin, Germany. Designed by

Christian Gottlieb Cantian (Johann) Christian Gottlieb Cantian (23 June 1794, Berlin - 11 April 1866) was a German stonemason and builder. His most notable achievement was the great granite bowl in Berlin's Lustgarten The ' () is a park on Museum Island in central Berlin ...

and erected in 1843. * Ohm's acoustic law was proposed by German physicist

Georg Ohm Georg Simon Ohm (, ; 16 March 1789 – 6 July 1854) was a German physicist and mathematician. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his o ...

. * The

University of Music and Theatre Leipzig The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn ...

founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn.

Births

* January 8 –

Karl Eduard Heusner Carl Eduard Heusner (8 January 1843 – 27 February 1891) was a Vice-Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Heusner was born in Perl (today in the German state of Saarland). He entered the Prussian Navy in 1857, and in 1859–1 ...

, Vice-Admiral of the

German Imperial Navy The Imperial German Navy or the Imperial Navy () was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which was mainly for coast defence. Wilhel ...

(d. 1891) * January 11 – Adolf Eberle, German painter (d. 1914) * January 17 –

Anton Thraen Anton Karl Thraen (17 January 1843, Holungen, Province of Saxony – 18 February 1902, Dingelstädt) was a German astronomer and named two minor planets, 442 Eichsfeldia and 443 Photographica. Biography Thraen was born on 17 January 1843 in Ho ...

, German astronomer (d. 1902) * January 22 –

Friedrich Blass Friedrich Blass (22 January 1843, Osnabrück5 March 1907, Halle) was a German classical scholar. Biography After studying at Göttingen and Bonn from 1860 to 1863, Blass lectured at several gymnasia and at the University of Königsberg. In 1876 ...

, German scholar (d. 1907) * January 25 –

Hermann Schwarz Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (; 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Life Schwarz was born in Hermsdorf, Silesia (now Jerzmanowa, Poland). In 1868 he married Marie Kummer, ...

, German mathematician (d. 1921) * January 26 – Erdmann Encke, German sculptor (d. 1896) * February 25 – Karl Gussow, German painter (d. 1907) * March 12 – Ludwig Dahn, German actor (d. 1898) * March 31 –

Bernhard Förster Ludwig Bernhard Förster (31 March 1843 – 3 June 1889) was a German teacher. He was married to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Life Förster became a leading figure in the anti-Semitic ...

, German teacher (d. 1889) * April 2 – Karl Koester, German pathologist (d. 1904) * April 11 –

Johannes Minckwitz Johannes Minckwitz (April 11, 1843, Leipzig – May 20, 1901, Biebrich) was a German chess player and author. Origins He was the son of German classical scholar and author Johannes Minckwitz. Chess play His best achievement was 2nd place, beh ...

, German chess player (d. 1901) * April 21 –

Walther Flemming Walther Flemming (21 April 1843 – 4 August 1905) was a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics. He was born in Sachsenberg (now part of Schwerin) as the fifth child and only son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Flemming (1799–18 ...

, German biologist (d. 1905) * May 8 – Rudolf Mosse, German publisher (d. 1920) * May 9 – Anton von Werner, German painter (d. 1915) s Renault, French jurist, educator, and

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

laureate (d. 1918) * May 22 – Adolf Aron Baginsky, German professor of diseases (d. 1918) * May 25 –

Paul Scheffer-Boichorst Paul Scheffer-Boichorst (25 May 1843 in Elberfeld – 17 January 1902 in Berlin) was a German historian of the Middle Ages. He studied history at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen and Berlin, receiving his doctorate from Leipzig University ...

, German historian (d. 1902) * May 30 – Louis Boehmer,

German-American German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the Unite ...

agronomist (d. 1896) * June 4 –

Charles Conrad Abbott Charles Conrad Abbott (June 4, 1843 – July 27, 1919) was an American archaeology, archaeologist and Natural history, naturalist. Biography Abbott was born at Trenton, New Jersey, son of Timothy Abbott Conrad, Timothy and Susan (Conrad) Abbott; ...

, German archaeologist (d. 1919) * June 9-

Wilhelm Dames Wilhelm Barnim Dames (9 June 1843, in Stolp – 22 December 1898, in Berlin) was a German paleontologist of the Berlin University, who described the first complete specimen of the early bird ''Archaeopteryx'' in 1894. This specimen is currently in ...

, German paleontologist (d. 1898) * June 13 – Adolf Neuendorff, German American composer (d. 1897) * June 14 – Richard Otto Zöpffel,

Baltic German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...

church historian and theologian (d. 1891) * June 23 – Otto Kuntze, German botanist (d. 1907) ** June 23 –

Paul Heinrich von Groth Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth (23 June 1843 – 2 December 1927) was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures. Bi ...

(died 1927), German

mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proce ...

* June 24 – Andreas Ascharin, Baltic-German chessmaster (d. 1896) * June 25 –

Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , name = Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , image = Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.jpg , caption = , spouse = Princess Louise of Thurn and Taxis , issue = , house =Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ...

, Member of the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen family (d. 1904) * June 28 – Julius Runge, German landscape artist (d. 1922) Robert Koch BeW

* July 29 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901) * August 9 – Adolf Mayer, German

agricultural chemist Agricultural chemistry is the study of chemistry, especially organic chemistry and biochemistry, as they relate to agriculture—agricultural production (economics), production, the food processing, processing of raw products into foods and beverag ...

(d. 1942) * August 11 –

Louis Gathmann Louis Gathmann (August 11, 1843 – June 3, 1917) was a German American engineer and an inventor who is best remembered as the inventor of the Gathmann gun, a large howitzer. Life and career Gathmann was born in Hanover. His father was a sch ...

, German American inventor (d. 1917) * August 12 –

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (12 August 1843 – 19 April 1916), also known as ''Goltz Pasha'', was a Prussian Field Marshal and military writer. Military career Goltz was born in , East Prussia (later renamed Goltzhausen; now ...

, Prussian field marshal (d. 1916) * August 18 – Moritz Brasch, German philosopher (d. 1895) * August 24 –

Ernst Wülcker Ernst Wülcker (24 August 1843, in Frankfurt am Main – 16 September 1895, in Weimar) was a German archivist and lexicographer. He was an older brother of philologist Richard Paul Wülker (1845–1910). He studied classical philology and Ge ...

, German archivist and lexicographer (d. 1895) * August 26 – Victor Gardthausen, German ancient historian (d. 1925) * August 27 – Wilhelm Wisser, German dialectologist (d. 1935) * August 30 – Carl Theodor Albrecht, German astronomer (d. 1915) * August 31 –

Georg von Hertling Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then chancellor of t ...

, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919) * September 5 –

Friedrich Reusch Johann Friedrich Reusch (5 September 1843, Siegen - 15 October 1906, Agrigento) was a German sculptor and art teacher. Biography He was born to a long-established family of craftsmen. His father was a master carpenter. Initially, he was going ...

, German sculptor (d. 1906) * September 7 –

Otto von Diederichs Ernst Otto von Diederichs (7 September 1843 – 8 March 1918) was an Admiral of the Imperial German Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine''), serving in the Prussian Navy and the North German Federal Navy. Early life Diederichs was born 7 September 1843 in ...

, German admiral (d. 1918) * September 11 – Adolf Wach, German jurist (d. 1926) * September 20 – Julius Lessing, German art historian (d. 1908) * September 24 – Carl Constantin Platen, German physician (d. 1899) * October 16 – Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld, German obstetrician and gynecologist (d. 1929)November 7 –

Heinrich Friedrich Weber Heinrich Friedrich Weber (; ; 7 November 1843 – 24 May 1912) was a physicist born in the town of Magdala, near Weimar. Biography Around 1861 he entered the University of Jena, where Ernst Abbe became the first of two physicists who decisi ...

, German physicist (d. 1912) * November 8 –

Moritz Pasch Moritz Pasch (8 November 1843, Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) – 20 September 1930, Bad Homburg, Germany) was a German mathematician of Jewish ancestry specializing in the foundations of geometry. He completed his Ph.D. at the Univer ...

, German mathematician (d. 1930) * November 13 – Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, German internist (d. 1924) * November 14 –

Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (14 November 1843 – 20 May 1909) was a German botanist, physiologist, microbiologist, university professor, and musician whose 1882 experiment measured the effects of different colors of light on photosynthetic activity ...

, German botanist (d. 1909) * November 15 – Joseph König (chemist), German chemist (d. 1930) *December 11 –

Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the bacteri ...

, German physician, recipient of the

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

(d. 1910)

Deaths

* March 27 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769) * June 7 –

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

, German writer (b. 1770) * July 2 –

Samuel Hahnemann Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (; 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Early life Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was ...

, German physician (b. 1755

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