1862 in Germany
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Events from the year 1862 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria
- King of Saxony – John
- King of Hanover – George V
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
- Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Events
- August 9 - Theater Baden-Baden opened with Béatrice et Bénédict.
- September 21 - Deutscher Sängerbund is founded.
- September 30 - Speech Blood and Iron by Otto von Bismarck in Berlin
- undated - Landesmuseum Württemberg opened.
Births
- 1 January - Heinrich Braun, German surgeon (died 1934)
- 6 January - August Oetker, German businessman (died 1918)
- 9 January - Agnes Bluhm, German physician (died 1943)
- 20 January - Karl von Tubeuf, German forestry scientist, mycologist and plant pathologist (died 1941)
- 23 January - David Hilbert, German mathematician (died 1943)
- 24 January - Prince Alfons of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1933)
- 6 February - Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (died 1946)
- 22 February - Philipp von Hellingrath, German general (died 1939)
- 13 March - Wilhelm Weigand, German poet and writer (died 1949)
- 11 April - Heinrich Cunow, German politician (died 1936)
- 28 May - Theodor Fischer, German architect (died 1938)
- 7 June - Philipp Lenard, German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 (died 1947)
- 12 June - Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist (died 1934)
- 18 June - Otto Immisch, German philologist (died 1936)
- 12 August - Martin Brendel, German astronomer (died 1939)
- 16 August - Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist (died 1937)
- 20 August - Paul Stäckel, German mathematician (died 1919)
- 26 August - Theodor Siebs, German linguist (died 1941)
- 11 September - Augustin Henninghaus, German roman-catholic missionary (died 1939)
- 15 September - Friedrich von Lindequist, German gouverneur of German South#West Africa (died 1945)
- 2 October - Karl Ebermaier, German governeur of Kamerun (died 1943)
- 4 October - Sebastian Finsterwalder, German mathematician (died 1951)
- 15 October - Conrad Ansorge, German composer and pianist (died 1930)
- 14 November - Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German diplomat and ambassador (died 1939)
- 15 November - Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
- 29 November - Friedrich Klose, German composer (died 1942)
- 14 December - Gunther von Etzel, German general (died 1948)
Deaths
- 2 February - Rudolph Suhrlandt, German painter (born 1781)
- 15 Februray - Heinrich Adam, German painter (born 1787)
- 3 March - Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz, German Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1822)
- 19 March - Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, German painter (born 1789)
- 15 July - Henriette Hanke, German writer (born 1785)
- 28 August - Albrecht Adam, German painiter (born 1786)
- 12 November - Christian Gottlob Barth, German theologian (born 1799)