1851 in Germany
Events from the year 1851 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
- King of Hanover –
- * Ernest Augustus till 18 November 1851
- * George V after 18 November 1851
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Events
- February 1 – Brandtaucher, the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully.
Births
- March 24 – Friedrich von Scholtz, German general
- April 1 – Bruno von Mudra, German general
- May 7 – Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian, church historian
- May 20 – Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer
- September 21 – Arthur Schuster, German-British physicist
- November 27 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general
Deaths
- January 10 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal
- January 21 – Albert Lortzing, German composer
- February 18 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician
- July 17 – Roger Sheaffe, British general
- November 18- Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
- December 19 – Karl Drais, German inventor