1838 in Germany
# 1838 in Germany

Events from the year 1838 in Germany

## Incumbents

* Kingdom of Prussia
   * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
* Kingdom of Bavaria
   * Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
   * Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847)
* Kingdom of Saxony
   * Frederick Augustus (1836–1854)
* Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851)
* Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)

## Events

### Date unknown

* Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.

## Births

* January 6- Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
* January 16 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917)
* June 24 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917)
* July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)

## Deaths

* February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763)
* April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
* June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
* August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
* November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)
