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1879 in Germany
Summary
Events from the year
1879 in
Germany
.
←
1878
1877
1876
1879
in
Germany
→
1880
1881
1882
Decades:
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
See also:
Other events of 1879
History of Germany
•
Timeline
•
Years
Incumbents
edit
National level
edit
Kaiser
–
William I
Chancellor
–
Otto von Bismarck
State level
edit
Kingdoms
edit
King of Bavaria
–
Ludwig II
King of Prussia
– William I
King of Saxony
–
Albert
King of Württemberg
–
Charles
Grand Duchies
edit
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
edit
Schaumburg-Lippe
–
Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
–
George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
–
Gonthier Frederick Charles II, 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
edit
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
edit
12 July
– The
German tariff of 1879
is voted for by a majority of 100 in the
Reichstag
.
21 June
– German chemical company
Linde
is founded.
31 May
– German inventor
Werner von Siemens
demonstrates the first
electric locomotive
using an external power source at Berlin.
26 September
–
Wilhelm Marr
founds the
Antisemitenliga
(League of Antisemites),
[1]
the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.
7 October
–
A defensive alliance
between Germany and Austria-Hungary is created by treaty.
31 December
–
Karl Benz
produces a
two-stroke
gas engine.
Births
edit
4 February
–
Wilhelm von Gayl
, German politician (died
1945
)
25 February
–
Julius Falkenstein
, German actor (died
1933
)
2 March
–
Johann Viktor Bredt
, German jurist and politician (died
1940
)
8 March
–
Otto Hahn
, German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died
1968
)
9 March
–
Agnes Miegel
, German poet (died
1964
)
10 March
–
Hans Luther
, German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died
1962
)
12 March
–
Alfred Abel
, German actor (died
1837
)
14 March
–
Albert Einstein
, German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the
general theory of relativity
(died
1955
)
27 April
–
Alfred Roth
, German politician and writer (died
1948
)
31 May
–
F.W. Schröder-Schrom
, German actor (died
1956
)
28 May
–
Albert Grzesinski
, German politician (died
1948
)
6 September
Max Schreck
, German actor (died
1936
)
Joseph Wirth
, German politician, former
Chancellor of Germany
(died
1956
)
9 October
–
Max von Laue
, German physicist (died
1960
)
28 October
–
Martin Kirschner
, German surgeon (died
1942
)
29 October
–
Franz von Papen
, German politician,
Chancellor of Germany
(died
1969
)
1 November
–
Oskar Barnack
, German inventor and German photographer (died
1936
)
14 December
–
Hermann Dietrich
, German politician (died
1954
)
16 December
–
Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye
, German fashion designer (died
1959
)
Deaths
edit
24 January
–
Heinrich Geißler
, German physicist (born
1814
23 February
–
Albrecht von Roon
, Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born
1803
)
25 February
–
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen
, Prussian general (born 1790)
13 March
–
Adolf Anderssen
, German chess master (born
1818
)
4 April
–
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
, German physicist and meteorologist (born
1803
)
11 May
–
Bernhard Wolff
, German newspaper publisher (born
1811
)
15 May
–
Gottfried Semper
, German architect (born 1803)
5 June
–
August Krönig
, German chemist and physicist (born
1822
)
7 September
–
George Westermann
, German publisher (born
1810
)
23 August
–
Alexander Duncker
, German publisher (born
1813
)
20 October
–
Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
, German diplomat and politician (born
1815
)
1 December
–
Franz Ittenbach
, German painter (born
1813
)
[2]
References
edit
^
Zimmermann, Moshe.
Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism
. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 71.
^
Williamson, George Charles (1913).
"Franz Ittenbach"
. In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
Catholic Encyclopedia
. New York: Robert Appleton Company.