1862 in Germany
Events from the year 1862 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria
- King of Saxony – John
- King of Hanover – George V
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I, [Grand Duke of Baden|Frederick I]
Events
- 9 August – Theater Baden-Baden opens with Béatrice et Bénédict.
- 21 September – Deutscher Sängerbund is founded.
- 30 September – Otto von Bismarck gives the speech named Blood and Iron in Berlin.
Undated
- Landesmuseum Württemberg is opened.
Births
- 1 January – Heinrich Braun, German surgeon
- 6 January – August Oetker, German businessman
- 9 January – Agnes Bluhm, German physician
- 20 January – Karl von Tubeuf, German forestry scientist, mycologist and plant pathologist
- 23 January – David Hilbert, German mathematician
- 24 January – Prince Alfons of Bavaria, German nobleman
- 6 February – Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist
- 22 February – Philipp von Hellingrath, German general
- 13 March – Wilhelm Weigand, German poet and writer
- 11 April – Heinrich Cunow, German politician
- 28 May – Theodor Fischer, German architect
- 7 June – Philipp Lenard, German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905
- 12 June – Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist
- 18 June – Otto Immisch, German philologist
- 12 August – Martin Brendel, German astronomer
- 14 August – Prince Henry of Prussia, German Prussian prince
- 16 August – Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist
- 20 August – Paul Stäckel, German mathematician
- 26 August – Theodor Siebs, German linguist
- 11 September – Augustin Henninghaus, German Roman Catholic missionary
- 15 September – Friedrich von Lindequist, German gouverneur of German South#West Africa
- 2 October – Karl Ebermaier, German governeur of Kamerun
- 4 October – Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician
- 15 October – Conrad Ansorge, German composer and pianist
- 14 November – Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German diplomat and ambassador
- 15 November – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 29 November – Friedrich Klose, German composer
- 14 December – Gunther von Etzel, German general
Deaths
- 2 February – Rudolph Suhrlandt, German painter
- 15 February – Heinrich Adam, German painter
- 3 March – Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, German Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 19 March – Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German painter
- 15 July – Henriette Hanke, German writer
- 28 August – Albrecht Adam, German painter
- 12 November – Christian Gottlob Barth, German theologian