Events from the year 1879 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Events
Births
- 4 February â Wilhelm von Gayl, German politician (died 1945)
- 25 February â Julius Falkenstein, German actor (died 1933)
- 2 March â Johann Viktor Bredt, German jurist and politician (died 1940)
- 8 March â Otto Hahn, German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died 1968)
- 9 March â Agnes Miegel, German poet (died 1964)
- 10 March â Hans Luther, German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died 1962)
- 12 March â Alfred Abel, German actor (died 1837)
- 14 March â Albert Einstein, German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity (died 1955)
- 27 April â Alfred Roth, German politician and writer (died 1948)
- 31 May â F.W. Schröder-Schrom, German actor (died 1956)
- 28 May â 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 â Max von Laue, German physicist (died 1960)
- 28 October â Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (died 1942)
- 29 October â Franz von Papen, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)
- 1 November â Oskar Barnack, German inventor and German photographer (died 1936)
- 14 December â Hermann Dietrich, German politician (died 1954)
- 16 December â Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye, German fashion designer (died 1959)
Deaths
- 24 January â Heinrich GeiÃÂler, German physicist (born 1814
- 23 February â Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born 1803)
- 25 February â Karl Wilhelm von Willisen, Prussian general (born 1790)
- 13 March â Adolf Anderssen, German chess master (born 1818)
- 4 April â Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803)
- 11 May â Bernhard Wolff, German newspaper publisher (born 1811)
- 15 May â Gottfried Semper, German architect (born 1803)
- 5 June â August Krönig, German chemist and physicist (born 1822)
- 7 September â George Westermann, German publisher (born 1810)
- 23 August â Alexander Duncker, German publisher (born 1813)
- 20 October â Bernhard Ernst von Bülow, German diplomat and politician (born 1815)
- 1 December â Franz Ittenbach, German painter (born 1813)
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