Events from the year 1812 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (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 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) George I (24 September 1812 – 9 September 1813)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Brunswick Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. 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 20 February – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).. Accessed 23 November 2013Weston, Pamela. "Heinrich Baermann." in Grove Music Online May – Conference of Dresden 2 July – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration. 20 December – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany. 31 December – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers. The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
Births 6 February – Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)Wilibald Gurlitt (editor): Damcke, Berthold. In Riemann Musiklexikon, 12th completely revised edition in three volumes, volume 1: Personenteil A–K. B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz 1959, . 27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883) 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883) 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910) 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894) 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
Deaths
24 March – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745) 29 March – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756) 14 July – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788) 10 July – Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765) 23 August – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737) 19 September – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744) 21 September – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)
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