# 1811 in Germany

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Events from the year 1811 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 Württemberg
** Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden
** Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
** Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818
* 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
** Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)
* 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
** Karl August (1809–1815)

### 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 XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
** Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)

### Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
** Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)
* Duke of Brunswick
** Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
* 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 Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)

## Events

* 21 November – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam.
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
* Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established
* Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established

## Births

* 27 January – Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855)
* 30 or 31 March – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899)
* 30 September – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890)
* 25 October – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
* 21 November – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883)
* 28 November – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864)
* 3 December – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889)
* 5 December – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)

## Deaths

* 11 January – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733)
* 3 February – Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739)
* 19 July – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735)
* September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767)
* 8 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
* 21 November – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)