1853 in Germany
# 1853 in Germany

Events from the year 1853 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
* King of Hanover – George V
* King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
* King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

## Events

* 20 July – The Jade Treaty is signed between Prussia and Oldenburg. Prussia is ceded territory which allows it to construct a major naval base at Wilhelmshaven
* 25 October – Neue Pinakothek in Munich opened.

## Births

* 1 January – Karl von Einem, German general, Prussian Minister of War (died 1934)
* 9 January – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (died 1919)
* 10 January – John Martin Schaeberle, German/American astronomer (died 1924)
* 14 March – Max Saenger, German obstetrician and gynecologist (died 1903)
* 4 July – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist (died 1923)
* 12 July - Carl Schotten, German chemist (died 1910)
* 26 July - Martin Segitz, German politician (died 1927)
* 2 September – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (died 1932)
* 20 September – Joseph Kürschner, German editor and publisher (died 1902)
* 23 September – Fritz von Below, German general (died 1918)
* 16 September – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1927)
* 22 November – Clemens von Ketteler, German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion (died 1900)

### Full date unknown

* Otto Wissig, Protestant German parson and author (died 1933)

## Deaths

* 19 January – Karl Faber, German historian (born 1773)
* 15 February – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, German general (born 1784)
* 28 April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (born 1773)
* 15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (born 1775)
* Undated – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer and scholar (born 1765)
