1830 in Germany
# 1830 in Germany

Events from the year 1830 in Germany

## Incumbents

### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
   * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
* Kingdom of Bavaria
   * Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
* Kingdom of Saxony
   * Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
* 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-Meiningen
   * Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)

## Events

* The Glyptothek museum in Munich, designed by Leo von Klenze, is completed.

## Births

* 7 January – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
* 8 January – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1894)
* 15 March – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
* 25 July – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1926)

## Deaths

* 19 January – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar (b. 1742)
* 17 or 30 January – Wilhelm Waiblinger, German Romantic poet (born 1804)
* 2 March – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist (b. 1755)
* 22 August – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (born 1771)
* 4 October – Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian military leader (b. 1759)
* 18 November – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (b. 1748)
* 20 November – Gustav von Ewers, German legal historian (born 1781)
