1812 in Germany
# 1812 in Germany

Events from the year 1812 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)
* 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)
* Duke of Brunswick
   * Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
* 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).
* 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)
* 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)
