1882 in Germany

none July 2022 February 2024 1882 Events in the year 1882 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 – Charles Gonthier, 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 24 March – the Tuberculosis bacillus causing tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, was identified and described by Robert Koch. 28 March – German company Beiersdorf was founded. 29 April – the Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. 20 May – Triple Alliance 23 June – Kiel Week in Kiel started. Births 24 February – Richard Beitzen, German Naval officer (died 1918) 10 March – Hans Steinhoff, German film director (died 1945) 16 March – Paul Lejeune-Jung, German economist and politician (died 1944) 23 March Emmy Noether, German mathematician (died 1935) Max Gülstorff, German actor (died 1947) 2 April – Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (died 1955) 7 April – Kurt von Schleicher, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (died 1934) 9 April – Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1945) 6 May – Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, German crown prince (died 1951) 10 May – Friedrich Marby, German rune occultist and Germanic revivalist (died 1966) 12 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman (died 1904) 25 May – Ernst von Weizsäcker, German diplomat and politician (died 1951) 4 June – Karl Valentin, German actor and comedian (died 1948) 27 June – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher (died 1963) 29 June – Franz Seldte, German co-founder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 (died 1947)http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/weimar/gewalt/stahlhelm/ Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten 23 July – Georg Jacoby, German film director and screenwriter (died 1964) 26 August – James Franck, German physicist (died 1964) 2 September – Max Bockmühl, German chemist (died 1949) 22 September – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (died 1946) 24 September – Karl Rapp, German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich.(died 1962) 26 September – Eduard von der Heydt, German banker (died 1964) 30 September – Hans Geiger, German physicist (died 1945) 12 October - Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen, German composer and conductor (died 1954) 15 October – Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general and resistance fighter (died 1944) 24 October – Paul Günther, German diver (died 1959) 30 October – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (died 1944) 11 December – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician (died 1970) 14 December – Wilhelm Keppler, German businessman (died 1960) 16 December Ernst Lissauer, German poet (died 1937) Walther Meissner, German physicist (died 1974) Date unknown Alice von Pechmann, German interior decorator (died 1976)Pechmann, Alice Freifrau von, Index entry https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd138726736.html 2026-06-13 Deutsche Biographie Deaths 11 January — Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (born 1810) 13 January – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist (born 1834) 6 April – Friedrich Drake, German sculptor (born 1805) 29 May – Doris Devrient, German actress and singer (born 1801)Böhler, Doris https://www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de/de/A008890.html Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe 12 February 2025 16 September – Theodore Eisfeld, German conductor (born 1816) 23 September – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (born 1800) 11 November – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, German mineralogist and writer (born 1803) 13 November - Gottfried Kinkel, German poet (born 1815) 26 November – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian Prime Minister (born 1805) 5 December – Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, German biologist (born 1807) References 1882 Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany