1838 in Germany

Events from the year 1838 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)
 * Prime Minister – Karl von Abel (1837–1847)
 * Kingdom of Saxony
 * Frederick Augustus (1836–1854)
 * Kingdom of Hanover– Ernest Augustus (1837–1851)
 * Kingdom of Württemberg – William (1816–1864)

Date unknown

 * Friedrich Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star.

Births

 * January 6- Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
 * January 16 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher, psychologist (d. 1917)
 * June 24 – Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (d. 1917)
 * July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)

Deaths

 * February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763)
 * April 12 – Johann Adam Möhler, German theologian (born 1796)
 * June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759)
 * August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
 * November 9 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (born 1766)