1833 in Germany

Incumbents

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

Events

• 6 February – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria.
• 6 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
• 14 December – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is stabbed, dying three days later on 17 December.

Date unknown

• The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.

Births

• 5 January – Eugene W. Hilgard, German-American "Father of soil science"
• 28 February – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
• 5 May – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician
• 7 May – Johannes Brahms, German composer
• 3 August – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist
• 25 December – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau

Deaths

• 16 January – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
• 16 October – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver
• 17 December – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin