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1874
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
10 January – German federal election, 1874
Date unknown
German company HeidelbergCement is founded.Leon Steven M. https://books.google.com/books?id=mQZvAQAAQBAJ Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Casebook: Applications in SCM 2013 Pearson Education 978-0-13-336719-5 126 en
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.Bruno Leonard C. https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/54 Math and mathematicians: the history of math discoveries around the world Baker Lawrence W. U X L 1999 978-0787638139 Detroit, Mich. 54 41497065
Births
30em
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
30em
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
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