1817 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• * Monarch – Frederick William III Kingdom of Bavaria
• * Maximilian I Kingdom of Saxony
• * Frederick Augustus I Kingdom of Hanover
• * George III Kingdom of Württemberg
• * William

Grand Duchies

• *Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818Grand Duke of Hesse
• * Louis I
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• * Frederick Francis I– Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• * George Grand Duke of Oldenburg
• * Wilhelm 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.
• * Peter I
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• * Charles Frederick

Principalities

• * George William Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• * Friedrich Günther Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• * Günther Friedrich Karl I Principality of Lippe
• * Leopold II Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• *Heinrich XIII
• * Heinrich XIX
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• * George II

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• *Leopold III
• * Leopold IV Duke of Brunswick
• * Charles II Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen - FrederickDuke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• * Ernest I Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• * Bernhard II Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• * Frederick William

Events

• 12 June – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse, the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.
• 18 October – Wartburg Festival

Births

• 22 February – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician
• 14 September – Theodor Storm, German writer
• 30 October – Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist
• 30 November – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

• 1 January – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium, zirconium, and cerium
• 2 April – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer
• 30 June – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
• 10 August – Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• 1 December – Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist