1852 in Germany
Events from the year 1852 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
- King of Hanover – George V
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Event
- 8 May – Prussia signs the 1852 London Protocol, a treaty ending the First Schleswig War by nominally returning Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark, while effectively guaranteeing their independence
Births
- 11 January – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany
- 2 May – Max von Gallwitz, German general
- 31 May -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist
- 25 June - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist
- 9 October – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 10 December - Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general
- 19 December – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate