1819 in Germany
Events from the year 1819 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia- * 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
Grand Duke of Baden- * Louis I Grand 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
Schaumburg-Lippe- * George William Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- * Friedrich Günther Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- * Günther Friedrich Karl I Principality of Lippe
- * Leopold II Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- * Heinrich XIX
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- * George II
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- * 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
- 23 March – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.
- 1 July – German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819
- 20 September – Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation
Publications
- *E. T. A. Hoffmann
- ** The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
- **Das Fräulein von Scuderi: Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten
- Joseph von Eichendorff – Das Marmorbild
- Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
- Jacob Grimm – ''Deutsche Grammatik''
Births
- 8 January - Mary Frances Schervier, Germane founder of two religious congregations of Religious Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis,
- 10 January – Karl Heine, German lawyer and entrepreneur
- 8 February – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, German writer and politician
- 10 February – Albert Schwegler, German philosopher and Protestant theologian.
- 11 February – Ottilie Assing, German feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist.
- 17 February
- * Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist
- * Max Schneckenburger, German writer
- 20 February – Ludwig Simon, German lawyer and politician
- 22 February – Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher
- 25 February – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians
- 1 March – Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, German surgeon
- 24 March – Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, German pathologist
- 26 March – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist
- 31 March – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany
- 11 April – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor
- 24 April – Klaus Groth, German poet
- 2 May – Gustav Becker, German clockmaker
- 7 May – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German-Baltic astronomer
- 27 May – George V of Hanover, German monarch of kingdom Hannover
- 17 June – Albert Dulk, German writer
- 20 June – Jacques Offenbach, German composer
- 22 June – August Wöhler, German railway engineer
- 3 July – Théodore Gouvy, German composer
- 6 July – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist
- 16 July – Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold, German mathematician
- 20 July – Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosopher
- 12 August – Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer
- 22 August – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian
- 26 August – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria
- 13 September – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist
- 22 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian
- 16 October – Arnold Schaefer, German historian
- 17 October – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German sovereign
- 25 October – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist
- 12 November – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer
- 16 November – Wilhelm Marr, German journalist
- 1 December – Philipp Krementz, German catholic bishop
- 22 December – Franz Abt, German composer and choral conductor
- 23 December – Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, German gynecologist and obstetrician
- 26 December – Hermann Blumenau, German pharmacist
- 30 December – Theodor Fontane, German writer
Deaths
- 12 January – Benedikte Naubert, German writer
- 28 January – Johann Karl Wezel, German poet
- 10 March – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher
- 23 March – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist
- 30 June – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, German composer
- 20 July – Xaver Hohenleiter, German criminal
- 29 July – Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel, German writer
- 12 September – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general
- 20 October – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, German philosopher
- 5 December – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet