1812 in Germany

Events from the year 1812 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 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)
  • George I (24 September 1812 – 9 September 1813)

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

• 20 February – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).^[13][14]
• May – Conference of Dresden
• 2 July – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.^[13]
• 20 December – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
• 31 December – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.^[13]
• The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)

Births

• 6 February – Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)^[15]
• 27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)^[16]
• 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883)
• 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
• 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)^[17]

Deaths

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

• 24 March – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
• 29 March – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
• 14 July – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
• 10 July – Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
• 23 August – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
• 19 September – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
• 21 September – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)^[18]