# 1864 in Germany

Events from the year 1864 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria; Ludwig II of Bavaria
* King of Prussia – William I
* King of Saxony – John

## Events

* 1 February – Beginning of Second Schleswig War
* 2 February – Battle of Mysunde
* 6 February – Battle of Sankelmark
* 17 March – Battle of Jasmund
* 7–18 April – Battle of Dybbøl
* 25 April – 25 June – London Conference of 1864
* 9 May – Battle of Heligoland
* 29 June – 1 July – Battle of Als
* 3 July – Battle of Lundby
* 30 October – Treaty of Vienna, End of Second Schleswig War

### Undated

* Evacuation of Danevirke
* Alfred Enneper publishes his parametrization of the Enneper surface in connection with minimal surface theory
* Hugo Erfurt invents Ingrain wallpaper

## Births

* 8 January – Julie Wolfthorn, German painter (died 1944)
* 13 January – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
* 5 February – Carl Teike, German composer (died 1922)
* 16 February – Hermann Stehr, German novelist and writer (died 1940)
* 24 February – Alfred Jeremias, German pastor, assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East (died 1935)
* 4 March – Johanna Ey, German art dealer (died 1944)
* 30 March – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (died 1943)
* 11 April – Johanna Elberskirchen, German writer and women rights activist (died 1943)
* 21 April – Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
* 5 May – Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist (died 1942)
* 12 May – Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet (died 1920)
* 15 May – Robert Schmidt, German politician (died 1943)
* 21 May – Otfried Nippold, German jurist (died 1938)
* 22 May – Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter (died 1931)
* 2 June – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (died 1946)
* 3 June – Albert Fraenkel, German physician (died 1938)
* 11 June – Richard Strauss, German composer (died 1949)
* 14 June – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (died 1915)
* 16 June – Willy Wolterstorff, German paleontologist and herpetologist (died 1943)
* 22 June – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (died 1909), born in Russia
* 25 June – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
* 18 July – Ricarda Huch, German historian and writer (died 1947)
* 24 July – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (died 1918)
* 12 August – Kuno von Westarp, German politician (died 1945)
* 17 August – Paul Wendland, German philologist (died 1915)
* 20 August – Karl Fritz, German Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1931)
* 27 August – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
* 19 September – Carl Correns, German biologist (died 1933)
* 26 September – Arthur Kampf, German painter (died 1950)
* 5 October – Arthur Zimmermann, German diplomat (died 1945)
* 30 October – Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist (died 1936)
* 27 November – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, German admiral (died 1928), born in Russia
* 31 December – Hans am Ende, German painter (died 1918)

## Deaths

* 27 January – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)
* 10 March – Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria (born 1811)
* 2 May – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (born 1791), died in France
* 3 August – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (born 1788)