# 1877 in Germany

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Events in the year 1877 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### National level

* Kaiser – William I
* Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

### State level
#### Kingdoms

* King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
* King of Prussia – William I
* King of Saxony – Albert
* King of Württemberg – Charles

#### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
* Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis III to 13 June, then Louis IV
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

#### Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Gonthier Frederick Charles II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* Principality of Lippe – Woldemar, Prince of Lippe
* Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
* Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
* Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#### Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
* Duke of Brunswick – William, Duke of Brunswick
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

## Events

* 10 January – German federal election, 1877
* Summer – Kissingen Dictation

### Date unknown

* German company Blohm+Voss is founded.

## Births

* 22 January – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. (died 1970)
* 7 February – Julius Curtius, German (died 1948)
* 8 February – Albert Vögler, German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (died 1945)
* 19 February – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962)
* 3 March – Alexander Baerwald, German architect (died 1930)
* 4 March – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
* 6 March – Karl Platen, German actor (died 1952)
* 12 March – Wilhelm Frick, German politician (died 1946)
* 15 March – Fritz Lang, German painter (died 1961)
* 19 March – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (died 1947)
* 29 March – Alois Kayser, Alsatian-born missionary (died 1944 in Micronesia)
* 15 April – Georg Kolbe, German painter (died 1947)
* 23 April – Hans Winkler, German botanist (died 1945)
* 4 June – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1957)
* 2 July – Hermann Hesse, German writer (died 1962)
* 13 September – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (died 1957)
* 15 September – Wilhelm Adam, German general (died 1949)
* 1 November – Else Ury, German writer (died 1943)
* 23 November – Franz Bracht, German politician (died 1933)
* 4 December – Morris Alexander, South African politician (died 1946 in South Africa)
* 19 December – Princess Pauline of Württemberg (died 1965)

## Deaths

* 12 January – Wilhelm Hofmeister, German biologist and botanist (born 1824)
* 18 February - Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, German politician (born 1795)
* 20 February - Marie Simon, German nurse (born 1824)
* 22 February - Eduard Gaertner, German painter (born 1801)
* 18 April – Franz Hanfstaengl, German photograph and painter (born 1804)
* 22 April - August Wilhelm Zumpt, German German classical scholar (born 1815)
* 11 May – Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, German general (born 1805)
* 25 May – Friedrich Thyssen, German banker and patriarch of the Thyssen family dynasty (born 1804)
* 13 June – Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, nobleman (born 1806)
* 13 July – Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1811)
* 14 July - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician (born 1795)
* 12 September – Julius Rietz, German conductor and composer (born 1812)
* 26 September – Hermann Grassmann (born 1809)
* 18 October – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German anthropologist and paleoanthropologist (born 1803)
* 2 November – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, German Generalfeldmarschall (born 1784)
* 26 November – Richard Lucae, German architect (born 1829)
* 18 December – Philipp Veit, German painter (born 1793)