1817 in Germany

Notable events occurring in Germany in 1817CE

* 1816
* 1815
* 1814
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* 1810s
* 1820s
* 1830s

See also:| Other events of 1817
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Events from the year 1817 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### Kingdoms

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* Kingdom of Prussia
* Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
* Kingdom of Bavaria
* Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
* Kingdom of Saxony
* Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
* Kingdom of Hanover
* George III (25 October 1760 – 29 January 1820)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
* William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

### Grand Duchies

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* Grand Duke of Baden
* Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818[2]
* Grand Duke of Hesse
* Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)[3]
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[3]
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
* George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)[4]
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg
* Wilhelm (6 July 1785 – 2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign.[5]
* Peter I (2 July 1823 – 21 May 1829)[5]
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
* Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 – 8 July 1853)

### Principalities

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* Schaumburg-Lippe
* George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 – 28 June 1867)[6]
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
* Principality of Lippe
* Leopold II (5 November 1802 – 1 January 1851)[7]
* Principality of Reuss-Greiz
* Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
* Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 – 31 October 1836)[8]
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
* George II (9 September 1813 – 15 May 1845)

### Duchies

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* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
* Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[9]
* Leopold IV (9 August 1817 – 22 May 1871)[10]
* Duke of Brunswick
* Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[11]
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
* Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[3]
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
* Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)[12]
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[13]
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
* Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[14]

## Events

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* 12 June – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.
* 18 October – Wartburg Festival

## Births

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* 22 February – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
* 14 September – Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
* 30 October – Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist (d. 1892)
* 30 November – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)

## Deaths

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* 1 January – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743)
* 2 April – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740)
* 30 June – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750)
* 10 August – Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
* 1 December – Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (b. 1752)

## References

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1. ^ Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
2. ^ von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
3. ^ a b c Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
4. ^ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
5. ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
6. ^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
7. ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
8. ^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
9. ^ Morley, J. (1995). "The Bauhaus Effect". Social Utopias of the Twenties. Germany: Müller Bushmann press. p. 11.
10. ^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
11. ^ Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
12. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
13. ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
14. ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1829) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 [Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 - via da:DIS Danmark.

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