1825 in Germany
# 1825 in Germany

Events from the year 1825 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)
   * Ludwig I (13 October 1825 – 20 March 1848)
* Kingdom of Saxony
   * Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
* Kingdom of Hanover
   * George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
   * William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden
   * Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)
* 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
   * George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg
   * Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
   * Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

### 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 XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
   * George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

### Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
   * Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)
* Duke of Brunswick
   * Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
   * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - 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-Glücksburg
   * Frederick William (6 July 1825 – 17 February 1831)

## Events

* February – February flood of 1825
* 6 July – The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later becomes the royal house of Greece, Denmark and Norway.

## Births

14 July – Adolf Cluss, German-born architect in Washington, D.C. (died 1905)

## Deaths

* 23 April – Maler Müller, German poet, dramatist and painter (born 1749)
* 13 June – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (born 1742)
* 12 July – Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, German scholar (b. 1770)
* 13 October – King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (b. 1756)
* 14 November – Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
* 17 November – Daniel Berger, German engraver (born 1744)
