1832 in Germany

Events from the year 1832 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * King of Bavaria – Ludwig I of Bavaria
 * King of Prussia – Frederick William III of Prussia
 * King of Saxony – Anthony of Saxony
 * King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
 * Grand Duke of Baden – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

Events

 * 30 May – The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity, ends with no result.
 * 15 December – The CGS system goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to base a system of absolute units on the three fundamental units of length.

Undated

 * The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, is published in Koblenz.
 * Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
 * Weimar Classicism ends with death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Work Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published.
 * Work Maler Nolten by Eduard Mörike is published.
 * Song Ihr Kinderlein, kommet by Christoph von Schmid is published.
 * Opera ''Die Hochzeit by Richard Wagner
 * Symphony in C major by Richard Wagner
 * String Quintet No. 1 b by Felix Mendelssohn revised

Births

 * 21 January – Carl Hubert von Wendt, German politician (died 1903)
 * 24 January – Albert Arnz, German painter (died 1914)
 * 25 January – Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian general (died 1891)
 * 28 January – Franz Wüllner, German composer (died 1902)
 * 29 January – Wilhelm Böckmann, German architect (died 1902)
 * 30 January – Karl von Thielen, German politician (died 1906)
 * 13 February – Wilhelm Müller, German pathologe, (died 1909)
 * 21 February – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (died 1932)
 * 10 March – Heinrich Bellermann, German music theorist (died 1903)
 * 4 April – Fedor Flinzer, German writer (died 1911)
 * 8 April – Alfred von Waldersee, German fieldmarshall (died 1904)
 * 15 April – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (died 1908)
 * 7 May – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German protestant theologian (died 1910)
 * 12 May – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1911)
 * 14 May – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (died 1903)
 * 18 May – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (died 1913)
 * 10 June – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (died 1891)
 * 1 July – Karl Binz, German pharmacologist (died 1913)
 * 19 July – Julius von Verdy du Vernois, German general (died 1910)
 * 7 August – Max Lange, German writer, publisher and chess player (died 1899)
 * 8 August – George, King of Saxony (died 1904)
 * 9 August – Alexander von Monts, German officer (died 1889)
 * 16 August – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (died 1920)
 * 1 September – Hermann Steudner, German botanist (died 1863)
 * 2 October – Julius von Sachs, German botanist (died 1897)
 * 6 October:
 * August Eisenlohr, German egyptologist (died 1902)
 * Christian Mali, German painter and art professor (died 1906)
 * 21 October – Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher (died 1895)
 * 22 October – Robert Eitner, German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer (died 1905)
 * 24 September – Gustav Frank, German theologian (died 1904)
 * 9 November – Adele Spitzeder, German actress and folk singer (died 1895)
 * 15 November – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (died 1932)
 * 18 November – John Gottlieb Auer, German Anglican bishop (died 1874)
 * 12 December – Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg, German politician (died 1887)
 * 16 December – Wilhelm Julius Foerster, German astronomer (died 1921)

Deaths

 * 17 January – August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz, German politician (born 1765)
 * 15 February – Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, German-Danish composer (born 1746)
 * 23 February – Wolf Heidenheim, German exegete (born 1757)
 * 12 March – Friedrich Kuhlau, German Danish composer (born 1786)
 * 22 March – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (born 1749)
 * 28 March – Lazarus Bendavid, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1762)
 * 30 March – Dora Stock, German portrait painter (born 1760)
 * 15 April – Adam Eberle, German painter (born 1804)
 * 21 April – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Unzelmann, German actor and opera singer (born 1753)
 * 24 April – Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, German botanist and taxonomist (born 1763)
 * 7 May – Christian Gottfried Schütz, German classical scholar and humanist (born 1747)
 * 15 May – Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (born 1758)
 * 20 May – Johann Birnbaum, German jurist (born 1763)
 * 9 June – Friedrich von Gentz, German diplomat and writer (born 1764)
 * 21 June – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (born 1754)
 * 19 July – Karl Julius Weber, German writer (born 1767)
 * 23 August – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist and ornithologist (born 1800)
 * 27 September – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (born 1781)
 * 1 November – Julius von Voss, German writer (born 1768)
 * 8 November – Karl August von Beckers zu Westerstetten, Bavarian general (born 1770)
 * 29 November – Karl Rudolphi, German-Swedish biologist and naturalist (born 1771)
 * 29 December – Johann Friedrich Cotta, German publisher (born 1764)