1841 in Germany

Events from the year 1841 in Germany

Incumbents

 * Kingdom of Prussia
 * Monarch – Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–1861)
 * 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)

Events
11 July – German emigrants set sail for Australia, on the Skjold.

Births

 * February 24 – Carl Gräbe, German chemist (d. 1927)
 * March 21 – Mathilde Blind, German-born English poet (died 1896)
 * April 3 – Hermann Carl Vogel, German astrophysicist, astronomer (d. 1907)
 * June 19 – Hermann Eduard von Holst, German historian (died 1904)
 * August 12 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (died 1924)

Deaths

 * February 21 – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (born 1799)
 * May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian (b. 1765)
 * August 11 – Johann Friedrich Herbart, German philosopher (born 1776)
 * October 9 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (b. 1781)
 * October 31 – Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, German philologist and philosopher (born 1778)