1847 in Germany
Events from the year 1847 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig I.
- King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus, [King of Hanover|Ernest Augustus]
- King of Prussia – Frederick [William IV of Prussia|Frederick William IV]
- King of Saxony – Frederick [Augustus II of Saxony|Frederick Augustus II]
Event
- October 12 – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph.
Births
- February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal
- February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer
- March 27 – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker
- July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist
- October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany
Deaths
- May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist
- July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist
- October 22 – Henriette Herz, German salonnière
- November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer