1850 in Germany
Events from the year 1850 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
- King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Events
- 31 January – The Constitution of Prussia is adopted.
- 25 July - Battle of Isted
- 28 August – Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt.
- 24 November - Battle of Lottorf
- 29 November – The Punctation of Olmütz was agreed between the Austrian Empire and Prussia. It granted the Austrians leadership of the revived German Confederation.
Births
- 6 January - Eduard Bernstein, German politician
- 17 February - Georg Theodor August Gaffky, German bacteriologist
- 7 March - Georg von Vollmar, Bavarian politician
- 9 March - Josias von Heeringen, German general
- 18 March - Ernst Büchner, German chemist
- 1 April - Hans von Pechmann, German chemist
- 9 April - Hermann Zumpe, German conductor and composer
- 16 April – Paul von Breitenbach, German railway planner
- 6 June – Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 13 June - Max Lenz, German historian
- 12 July - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist
- 20 October - Adolf Rosenzweig, German rabbi
- 16 December - Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist
Deaths
- 27 January - Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor
- 13 May - Johann Jakob Bernhardi, German physician and botanist
- 21 May – Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, German theological writer, preacher
- 14 July– August Neander, German theologian, church historian
- 22 September – Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist
- 4 November – Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar and writer
- 28 December - Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer