1811 in Germany

Events from the year 1811 in Germany.

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Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
• 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 Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
  • Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818^[2]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)^[4]
• 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.^[5]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[7]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)^[8]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)^[9]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick^[3]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)^[10]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)^[11]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)^[12]

Events

• 21 November – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
• Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established
• Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established

Births

• 27 January – Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855)
• 30 or 31 March – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)
• 30 September – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)
• 25 October – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
• 21 November – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)
• 28 November – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
• 3 December – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889)
• 5 December – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)

Deaths

Heinrich von Kleist

• 11 January – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733)
• 3 February – Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739)^[13]
• 19 July – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735)^[14]
• September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)
• 8 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
• 21 November – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)^[15]