1812 in Germany

Events from the year 1812 in Germany.

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Incumbents

Kingdoms

• 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 Württemberg
  • Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Grand Duchies

• 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
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)^[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
  • Karl August (1809–1815)

Principalities

• 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)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
  • George I (24 September 1812 – 9 September 1813)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)^[8]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)^[9]
• 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)^[10]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)^[11]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)^[12]

Events

• 20 February – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).^[13][14]
• May – Conference of Dresden
• 2 July – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.^[13]
• 20 December – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
• 31 December – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.^[13]
• The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)

Births

• 6 February – Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)^[15]
• 27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)^[16]
• 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883)
• 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
• 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)^[17]

Deaths

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

• 24 March – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
• 29 March – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
• 14 July – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
• 10 July – Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
• 23 August – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
• 19 September – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
• 21 September – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)^[18]

References

1. "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
2. von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
3. 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. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
5. "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. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
9. 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.
10. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
11. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
12. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
13. MusicandHistory.com – 1812 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 23 November 2013
14. Weston, Pamela. "Heinrich Baermann." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
15. Wilibald Gurlitt (editor): Damcke, Berthold. In Riemann Musiklexikon, 12th completely revised edition in three volumes, volume 1: Personenteil A–K. B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 362.
16. The New Kobbé's Opera Book. Ebury Press. 1997. p. 231. ISBN 9780091814106.
17. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Rietz, Julius" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
18. Sonnek, Anke (2005), "Schikaneder, Emanuel", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 753–754; (full text online)