1830 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• * Monarch – Frederick William III Kingdom of Bavaria
• * Monarch - Ludwig I Kingdom of Saxony
• * Anthony Kingdom of Hanover
• * George IV Kingdom of Württemberg
• * William

Grand Duchies

• * 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
• * 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 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 and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg - FrederickDuke of Saxe-Meiningen
• * Bernhard II

Events

• The Glyptothek museum in Munich, designed by Leo von Klenze, is completed.

Births

• 7 January – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter
• 8 January – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, pianist and composer
• 15 March – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 25 July – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded ''Bausch & Lomb''

Deaths

• 19 January – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar
• 17 or 30 January – Wilhelm Waiblinger, German Romantic poet
• 2 March – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist
• 22 August – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter
• 4 October – Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian military leader
• 18 November – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher
• 20 November – Gustav von Ewers, German legal historian