Events from the year 1862 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
- 1 January â Heinrich Braun, German surgeon (died 1934)
- 6 January â August Oetker, German businessman (died 1918)
- 9 January â Agnes Bluhm, German physician (died 1943)
- 20 January â Karl von Tubeuf, German forestry scientist, mycologist and plant pathologist (died 1941)
- 23 January â David Hilbert, German mathematician (died 1943)
- 24 January â Prince Alfons of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1933)
- 6 February â Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (died 1946)
- 22 February â Philipp von Hellingrath, German general (died 1939)
- 13 March â Wilhelm Weigand, German poet and writer (died 1949)
- 11 April â Heinrich Cunow, German politician (died 1936)
- 28 May â Theodor Fischer, German architect (died 1938)
- 7 June â Philipp Lenard, German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 (died 1947)
- 12 June â Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist (died 1934)
- 18 June â Otto Immisch, German philologist (died 1936)
- 12 August â Martin Brendel, German astronomer (died 1939)
- 14 August â Prince Henry of Prussia, German Prussian prince (died 1929)
- 16 August â Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist (died 1937)
- 20 August â Paul Stäckel, German mathematician (died 1919)
- 26 August â Theodor Siebs, German linguist (died 1941)
- 11 September â Augustin Henninghaus, German Roman Catholic missionary (died 1939)
- 15 September â Friedrich von Lindequist, German gouverneur of German South#West Africa (died 1945)
- 2 October â Karl Ebermaier, German governeur of Kamerun (died 1943)
- 4 October â Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician (died 1951)
- 15 October â Conrad Ansorge, German composer and pianist (died 1930)
- 14 November â Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German diplomat and ambassador (died 1939)
- 15 November â Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
- 29 November â Friedrich Klose, German composer (died 1942)
- 14 December â Gunther von Etzel, German general (died 1948)
Deaths
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