1816 in Germany

Events from the year 1816 in Germany.

Incumbents

Kingdom of Prussia

Grand Duke of Baden

Schaumburg-Lippe

January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
10 February – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg.
April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.
July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.
October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.
November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.
Ludwig van Beethoven : To the distant beloved op. 98 ; Der Mann von Wort - Lied Op. 99; Piano Sonata No. 28 op.101
Johann Simon Mayr : 6 cantatas
Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49; Grand Duo concertant for clarinet and piano in E flat major op.48
Franz Bopp – Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache
Pinkus Müller brewery established.
Province of Saxony established
Province of Brandenburg established
The Neue Wache, a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. Erected from 1816 to 1818.

24 May – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter
21 July – Paul Reuter, German entrepreneur
11 September – Carl Zeiss, German maker of optical instruments
November 1 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, German novelist, dramatist and travel writer
10 December – August Karl von Goeben, Prussian general
13 December – Werner von Siemens, German inventor, industrialist
29 December – Carl Ludwig, German physician, physiologist