1822 in Germany

Events from the year 1822 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
• 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 IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
• William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
• Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)
• Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)
• 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.
• Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
• Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)
• Duke of Brunswick
• Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)
• 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)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)

Events

• "Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration.
• The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, established from 1822 to 1946.
• Röchling SE & Co. KG, a plastics engineering company headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is established.
• Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded.
• Sternburg-Export was first brewed by Maximilian Freiherr Speck von Sternburg

Births

• 2 January – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
• 6 January-Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
• 18 April – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878)
• 27 August – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)

Deaths

• 14 January – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
• 22 January – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786) 16 January – Elisabeth Berenberg, German banker (b. 1749)
• 23 February – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757)
• 3 April – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
• 27 May – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
• 25 June – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)
• 25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738)
• 26 November – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750)
• 8 December – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
• 28 December – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)

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