# 1822 in Germany

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Events from the year 1822 in Germany

## Incumbents
### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
** Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
* 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 IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
** William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden
** Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)
* Grand Duke of Hesse
** Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
** Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
** George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)
* 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.
** Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
** Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

### Principalities

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

### Duchies

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

## Events

* "Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration.
* The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, established from 1822 to 1946.
* Röchling SE & Co. KG, a plastics engineering company headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is established.
* Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded.

## Births

* 2 January – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
* 6 January-Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
* 18 April – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878)
* 27 August – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)

## Deaths

* 14 January – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749)
* 22 January – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786) William Herschel16 January – Elisabeth Berenberg, German banker (b. 1749)
* 23 February – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757)
* 3 April – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747)
* 27 May – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772)
* 25 June – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776)
* 25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738)
* 26 November – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750)
* 8 December – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767)
* 28 December – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)