1874 in Germany
Events in the year 1874 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Saxony – Albert
- King of Württemberg – Charles
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
- Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis III
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Events
Date unknown
- German company HeidelbergCement is founded.
Science
- Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.
Births
- 1 January –Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer
- 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist
- 19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor
- 20 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet
- 7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor
- 15 April – Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 20 April – Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat
- 3 May – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician
- 4 May – Bernhard Hoetger, German painter
- 2 June – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman
- 5 July – Eugen Fischer, German physician
- 7 July – Erwin Bumke, German judge
- 17 July – Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician
- 28 July – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher
- 29 July – August Stramm, German poet and playwright
- 27 August – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 12 September – Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor
- 21 September – Karl Jarres, German politician
- 15 October - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman
- 16 October – Otto Mueller, German painter
- 17 October – Ludwig Siebert, German politician
- 1 November - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician
- 14 November – Adolf Brand, German writer
- 17 November – Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur
- 11 December - Paul Wegener, German actor
- 14 December – Adam Stegerwald, German politician
- 26 December – Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician
Deaths
- 5 January - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian
- 14 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist
- 19 January – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
- 26 February - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer
- 1 April – August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, German statesman
- 7 April - Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter
- 20 April – Gustav Bläser, German sculptor
- 23 October – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism
- 2 November - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian
- 15 November - Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher
- 7 December - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar
- 27 December – Ernst Litfaß, German printer and publisher