1841 in Germany

Incumbents

• Kingdom of Prussia
• * Monarch – Friedrich Wilhelm IV
• Kingdom of Bavaria
• * Monarch – Ludwig I
• * Prime Minister – Karl von Abel
• Kingdom of Saxony
• * Frederick Augustus
• Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus
• Kingdom of Württemberg – William

  Events

Births

• February 24 – Carl Gräbe, German chemist
• March 21 – Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet
• April 3 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist, astronomer
• June 19 – Hermann Eduard von Holst, German historian
• August 12 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect

  Deaths

• February 21 – Dorothea Tieck, German translator
• May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian
• August 11 – Johann Friedrich Herbart, German philosopher
• October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect
• October 31 – Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, German philologist and philosopher