1847 in Germany
# 1847 in Germany

Events from the year 1847 in Germany.

## Incumbents

* King of Bavaria – Ludwig I.
* King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
* King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
* King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

## Event

* October 12 – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph.

## Births

* Paul von Hindenburg February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920)
* February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
* March 27 – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
* July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
* July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)
* October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934)

## Deaths

* May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805)
* July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776)
* October 22 – Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764)
* November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
