1855 in Germany

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – George V
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – John of Saxony

  Events

• The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke

  Births

• February 17 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general
• February 24 – Johannes von Eben, German general
• May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer
• June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist
• July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist
• August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral
• August 27 – Hugo von Kathen, German general
• September 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer
• October 10 – Eduard von Capelle, German admiral

  Deaths

• February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist