Events from the year 1872 in Germany .
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(February 2011 )
11 January – Paul Graener , German composer and conductor (died 1944 )
28 January – Otto Braun , German politician (died 1955 )
8 February – Theodor Lessing , German philosopher (died 1933 )
3 March – Frida Felser , opera singer and actress (died 1941 ).[ 1]
24 March – Walther Reinhardt , Army officer (died 1930 )
1 April – Conrad Gröber , German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948 )
9 April – Theodor Koch-Grunberg , German ethnologue and explorer (died 1924 )
19 April – Alice Salomon , German social reformer (died 1948 )[ 2]
22 April – Princess Margaret of Prussia , Prussian princess (died 1954 )
2 May – Karl Nessler , German inventor of the permanent wave (died 1951 )
14 June – Heinrich Vogeler , German painter (died 1942 )
22 July – Karl Helfferich , German politician (died 1924 )
13 August – Richard Willstätter , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942 )
5 September – Carl Friedrich von Siemens , German entrepreneur (died 1941)
3 October – Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe , German scientist and inventor (died 1931 )
9 November – Richard Otto , German physician (died 1952 )
11 November – Frederick Stock , German composer (died 1942 )
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