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1815 in Germany
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1815
Events from the year 1815 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)Tikkanen Amy 30 July 2018 Federick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III 2022-09-21 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kingdom of Bavaria
Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
Kingdom of Saxony
Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
Kingdom of Hanover
George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
Kingdom of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden
Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818von Weech Friedrich Karl Ludwig Friedrich http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd102285020.html Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 25 July 2010 Onlinefassung GermanJune 2026 InternetArchiveBot
Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38 1768 Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel Bourdeaux fr 38
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) Huish Robert Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third T. Kelly 1821 170
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign.Oldenburg Royal Family http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm Monarchies of Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm 1 January 2021 17 March 2006
Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Karl August (1809–1815)
Principalities
Schaumburg-Lippe
George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)Monarchies of Europe http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm#24.7336 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070614023242/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm 14 June 2007
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
Principality of Lippe
Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)1850 Justus Perthes 87th Almanach de Gotha 38
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Brunswick
Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)Ernest I. 9 751
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php Biografie Georg I (German) Meininger Museen 8 September 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php 15 September 2011 dead
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)Albinus Robert Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg 1985 3-7921-0320-6 Leer 371 de
Events
3 January – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
thumb|9 June: The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed.
9 June – The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed: A new European political situation is set. The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created, and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
16 June-Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ligny: Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
2 August – Napoleonic Wars: Representatives of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia and Prussia sign a convention at Paris, declaring that Napoleon Bonaparte is "their prisoner" and that "His safekeeping is entrusted to the British Government."Charles Jean Tristan, Count Montholon, History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helen (E. Ferrett & Company, 1846) p83
26 September – Austria, Prussia and Russia sign a Holy Alliance, to uphold the European status quo.Tim Chapman, The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815 (Routledge, 2006) p60
20 November – The Napoleonic Wars come to an end after 12 years, with the British government restoring the status quo of France, prior to when the French Revolution began in 1789.
Births
15 January – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (d. 1901)
11 March – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)Albert E. Wier The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians New York Macmillan 1938 1031758679 197
1 April- Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
6 April – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
18 June – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Bavarian general (d. 1881)
26 July – Robert Remak, German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (d. 1865)
31 October – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897)
8 December – Adolph Menzel, German artist, painter (d. 1905)
Deaths
5 March – Franz Mesmer, German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734)
11 May – Aletta Haniel, German business person (b. 1742)
16 June – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noble, general (killed in battle) (b. 1771)
3 July – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (b. 1752)
References
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