1852 in Germany
# 1852 in Germany

Events from the year 1852 in Germany.

## Events

| 1852 | 8 May | First Schleswig War: Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom signed the London Protocol, guaranteeing the nominal independence of Schleswig and Holstein in personal union with Denmark and ending the war. |
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## Incumbents

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

## Births

* January 11 – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
* May 2 – Max von Gallwitz , German general (d. 1937 )
* May 31 -Julius Richard Petri , German bacteriologist (d. 1921 )
* June 25 - Friedrich Loeffler , German bacteriologist (d. 1915 )
* October 9 – Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 ) December 10
* Felix Graf von Bothmer , German general (d. 1937 )
* December 19 – Albert A. Michelson , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )

## Deaths

* June 21 – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782)
* October 15 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , German gymnastics educator (b. 1778 )
* November 17 – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer , German philosopher (b. 1768 )
