1867 in Germany

Events from the year 1867 in Germany.

Incumbents[edit]

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria
• King of Prussia – William I
• King of Saxony – John

Events[edit]

• February 12 - February 1867 North German federal election
• August 31 - August 1867 North German federal election
• Date unknown - Volume I of Das Kapital by Karl Marx was published in Hamburg by Verlag Otto Meisner
• Date unknown - Germanischer Lloyd was founded.

Births[edit]

• January 10 - Gerhard Anschütz. German lawyer (died 1948)
• January 17 - Carl Laemmle, German-American film executive (died 1939)
• January 21 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (died 1921)
• May 14 - Kurt Eisner, German journalist and theatre critic (died 1919)
• July 3 - Johannes Hoffmann, German SPD Minister-President of Bavaria (died 1930)
• July 8 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (died 1945)
• July 10 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, German nobleman and chancellor of Germany (died 1929)
• September 7 - Albert Bassermann, German actor (died 1952)
• September 9 - Ernst Oppler, German painter (died 1929)
• September 29 - Walther Rathenau, German statesman and politician (died 1929)
• October 20 - Ludwig Fahrenkrog, German writer and playwright (died 1952)

Deaths[edit]

• January 12 - Georg Merz, German optician (born 1793)
• January 15 - Adolf Lohse, German architect (born 1807)
• February 3 - Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, German nobleman, explorer, ethnologist and naturalist (born 1783)
• February 27 - Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern, German painter (born 1805)
• March 6 - Peter von Cornelius, German painter (born 1784)
• March 13 - Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, German noblewoman (born 1789)
• March 25 - Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, German chemist (born 1794)
• April 12 - Johann Christian Friedrich Tuch, German Orientalist and theologian (born 1806)
• April 14 - Ferdinand August Maria Franz von Ritgen, German obstetrician and naturalist b (born 1787)
• May 25 - Johann Christian Bauer, German type designer and punchcutter (born 1802)
• June 11 - Karl Otto Weber, German surgeon (born 1827)
• June 16 - Paulus Modestus Schücking, German lawyer (born 1787)
• June 26 - Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, German nobleman (born 1831)
• June 28 - Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German nobleman (born 1793)
• July 26 - Otto of Greece, German king in Greece (born 1815)
• August 28 - Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, German jurist (born 1787)
• September 5 - Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, German nobleman (born 1787)
• October 23 - Franz Bopp, German linguist (born 1791)
• December 9 - Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacture (born 1787)
• December 17 - Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz, German physician and botanist (born 1805)
• December 21 - Karl Friedrich Schimper, German botanist and naturalist (born 1803)

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