# 1815 in Germany

Events from the year 1815 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 III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
** Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden
** 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
** George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

### Duchies

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

## Events

* 3 January – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
* 9 June – The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna is signed: A new European political situation is set. The German Confederation and Congress Poland are created, and the neutrality of Switzerland is guaranteed. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
* 16 June-Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ligny: Napoleon defeats a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
* 2 August – Napoleonic Wars: Representatives of the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia and Prussia sign a convention at Paris, declaring that Napoleon Bonaparte is "their prisoner" and that "His safekeeping is entrusted to the British Government."
* 26 September – Austria, Prussia and Russia sign a Holy Alliance, to uphold the European status quo.
* 20 November – The Napoleonic Wars come to an end after 12 years, with the British government restoring the status quo of France, prior to when the French Revolution began in 1789.

## Births

* 15 January – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (d. 1901)
* 11 March – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)
* 1 April- Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
* 6 April – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
* 18 June – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Bavarian general (d. 1881)
* 26 July – Robert Remak, German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (d. 1865)
* 31 October – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897)
* 8 December – Adolph Menzel, German artist, painter (d. 1905)

## Deaths

* 5 March – Franz Mesmer, German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734)
* 11 May – Aletta Haniel, German business person (b. 1742)
* 16 June – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noble, general (killed in battle) (b. 1771)
* 3 July – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (b. 1752)