1874 in Germany

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See also:| Other events of 1874
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Events in the year 1874 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### National level

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* Emperor – William I
* Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

### State level

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#### Kingdoms

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* King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
* King of Prussia – William I
* King of Saxony – Albert
* King of Württemberg – Charles

#### Grand Duchies

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 10 January – German federal election, 1874

### Date unknown

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* German company HeidelbergCement is founded.[1]

### Science

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* Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers") is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.[2]

## Births

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* 1 January –Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927)
* 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929)
* 19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933)
* 20 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945)
* 7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor (died 1945)
* 15 April – Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
* 20 April – Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat (died 1935)
* 3 May – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (died 1932)
* 4 May – Bernhard Hoetger, German painter (died 1949)
* 2 June – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (died 1943)
* 5 July – Eugen Fischer, German physician (died 1967)
* 7 July – Erwin Bumke, German judge (died 1945)
* 17 July – Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician (died 1930)
* 28 July – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (died 1945)
* 29 July – August Stramm, German poet and playwright (died 1915)
* 27 August – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
* 12 September – Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor (died 1966)
* 21 September – Karl Jarres, German politician (died 1951)
* 15 October \- Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman (died 1899)
* 16 October – Otto Mueller, German painter (died 1930)
* 17 October – Ludwig Siebert, German politician (died 1942)
* 1 November \- Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (died 1954)
* 14 November – Adolf Brand, German writer (died 1945)
* 17 November – Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur (died 1946)
* 11 December \- Paul Wegener, German actor (died 1948)
* 14 December – Adam Stegerwald, German politician (died 1945)
* 26 December – Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (died 1937)

## Deaths

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* 5 January \- Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
* 14 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist (born 1834)
* 19 January – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born 1798)
* 26 February \- Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (born 1819)
* 1 April – August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, German statesman (born 1797)
* 7 April \- Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (born 1805)
* 20 April – Gustav Bläser, German sculptor (born 1813)
* 23 October – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism (born 1810)
* 2 November \- Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
* 15 November \- Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher (born 1804)
* 7 December \- Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (born 1815)
* 27 December – Ernst Litfaß, German printer and publisher (born 1816)

## References

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1. ^ Leon, Steven M. (2013). Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Casebook: Applications in SCM. Pearson Education. p. 126\. ISBN 978-0-13-336719-5.
2. ^ Bruno, Leonard C.; Baker, Lawrence W. (1999). Math and mathematicians: the history of math discoveries around the world. Detroit, Mich.: U X L. p. 54. ISBN 978-0787638139. OCLC 41497065.

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