1833 in Germany

Events from the year 1833 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)
 * Kingdom of Saxony
 * Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
 * Kingdom of Hanover
 * William IV (26 June 1830 to 1837)
 * Kingdom of Württemberg
 * William (1816–1864)

Events

 * 6 February – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria.
 * 6 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
 * 14 December – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is stabbed, dying three days later on 17 December.

Date unknown

 * The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.

Births

 * 5 January – Eugene W. Hilgard, German-American "Father of soil science" (d. 1916)
 * 28 February – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
 * 5 May – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician (d. 1902)
 * 7 May – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)


 * 3 August – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist (d. 1902)
 * 25 December – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer (b. 1769)
 * 16 October – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (b. 1752)
 * 17 December – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin (stabbed) (b. 1812?)