1824 in Germany

Events from the year 1824 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 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)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)^[3]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • 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)^[4]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[5]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)^[6]
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)^[7]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)^[8]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick^[2]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)^[9]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)^[10]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)^[11]

Events

• May 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") premieres at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. The deaf composer has to be turned around on the stage, to witness the enthusiastic audience reaction.
• German shipping company F. Laeisz of Hamburg, producer of the Flying P-Liner sailing ships, is established.
• The Kurhaus of Baden-Baden in Germany is designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
• Principality of Reuss-Lobenstein-Ebersdorf established

Births

Gustav Kirchhoff

• March 12 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
• March 22 – Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer (d. 1906)
• March 27 – Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (d. 1914)
• June 7 – Bernhard von Gudden, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1886)
• August 26 – Marie Simon, German nurse (d. 1877)^[12]
• November 24 – Frederick Miller, German-born American brewer, businessman (d. 1888)

Deaths

• January 29 – Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, wife of Charles Edward Stuart (b. 1752)
• February 9 – Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (b. 1774)
• May 15 – Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen, German statesman (b. 1763)