Events in the year 1874 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level Emperor – 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 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 – Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Principality of Lippe – Leopold III, 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 – Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Events 10 January – German federal election, 1874
Date unknown German company HeidelbergCement is founded.
Science Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers") is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.
Births
1 January –Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927) 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929) 19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933) 20 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945) 7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor (died 1945) 15 April – Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957) 20 April – Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat (died 1935) 3 May – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (died 1932) 4 May – Bernhard Hoetger, German painter (died 1949) 2 June – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (died 1943) 5 July – Eugen Fischer, German physician (died 1967) 7 July – Erwin Bumke, German judge (died 1945) 17 July – Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician (died 1930) 28 July – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (died 1945) 29 July – August Stramm, German poet and playwright (died 1915) 27 August – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940) 12 September – Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor (died 1966) 21 September – Karl Jarres, German politician (died 1951) 15 October - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman (died 1899) 16 October – Otto Mueller, German painter (died 1930) 17 October – Ludwig Siebert, German politician (died 1942) 1 November - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (died 1954) 14 November – Adolf Brand, German writer (died 1945) 17 November – Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur (died 1946) 11 December - Paul Wegener, German actor (died 1948) 14 December – Adam Stegerwald, German politician (died 1945) 26 December – Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (died 1937)
Deaths
5 January - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804) 14 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist (born 1834) 19 January – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born 1798) 26 February - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (born 1819) 1 April – August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, German statesman (born 1797) 7 April - Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (born 1805) 20 April – Gustav Bläser, German sculptor (born 1813) 23 October – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism (born 1810) 2 November - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804) 15 November - Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher (born 1804) 7 December - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (born 1815) 27 December – Ernst Litfaß, German printer and publisher (born 1816)
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