1843 in Germany

Events from the year 1843 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * Kingdom of Prussia –
 * Monarch – Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–1861)
 * Chief Minister – Ludwig Gustav von Thile (1841–1848)
 * 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

 * The Berlin Peace Column is a column located in Mehringplatz in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Christian Gottlieb Cantian and erected in 1843.
 * Ohm's acoustic law was proposed by German physicist Georg Ohm.
 * The University of Music and Theatre Leipzig founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn.

Births

 * January 8 – Karl Eduard Heusner, Vice-Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (d. 1891)
 * January 11 – Adolf Eberle, German painter (d. 1914)
 * January 17 – Anton Thraen, German astronomer (d. 1902)
 * January 22 – Friedrich Blass, German scholar (d. 1907)
 * January 25 – Hermann Schwarz, German mathematician (d. 1921)
 * January 26 – Erdmann Encke, German sculptor (d. 1896)
 * February 25 – Karl Gussow, German painter (d. 1907)
 * March 12 – Ludwig Dahn, German actor (d. 1898)
 * March 31 – Bernhard Förster, German teacher (d. 1889)
 * April 2 – Karl Koester, German pathologist (d. 1904)
 * April 11 – Johannes Minckwitz, German chess player (d. 1901)
 * April 21 – Walther Flemming, German biologist (d. 1905)
 * May 8 – Rudolf Mosse, German publisher (d. 1920)
 * May 9 – Anton von Werner, German painter (d. 1915)s Renault, French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
 * May 22 – Adolf Aron Baginsky, German professor of diseases (d. 1918)
 * May 25 – Paul Scheffer-Boichorst, German historian (d. 1902)
 * May 30 – Louis Boehmer, German-American agronomist (d. 1896)
 * June 4 – Charles Conrad Abbott, German archaeologist (d. 1919)
 * June 9-Wilhelm Dames, German paleontologist (d. 1898)
 * June 13 – Adolf Neuendorff, German American composer (d. 1897)
 * June 14 – Richard Otto Zöpffel, Baltic German church historian and theologian (d. 1891)
 * June 23 – Otto Kuntze, German botanist (d. 1907)
 * June 23 – Paul Heinrich von Groth (died 1927), German mineralogist
 * June 24 – Andreas Ascharin, Baltic-German chessmaster (d. 1896)
 * June 25 – Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Member of the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen family (d. 1904)
 * June 28 – Julius Runge, German landscape artist (d. 1922)
 * July 29 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
 * August 9 – Adolf Mayer, German agricultural chemist (d. 1942)
 * August 11 – Louis Gathmann, German American inventor (d. 1917)
 * August 12 – Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Prussian field marshal (d. 1916)
 * August 18 – Moritz Brasch, German philosopher (d. 1895)
 * August 24 – Ernst Wülcker, German archivist and lexicographer (d. 1895)
 * August 26 – Victor Gardthausen, German ancient historian (d. 1925)
 * August 27 – Wilhelm Wisser, German dialectologist (d. 1935)
 * August 30 – Carl Theodor Albrecht, German astronomer (d. 1915)
 * August 31 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
 * September 5 – Friedrich Reusch, German sculptor (d. 1906)
 * September 7 – Otto von Diederichs, German admiral (d. 1918)
 * September 11 – Adolf Wach, German jurist (d. 1926)
 * September 20 – Julius Lessing, German art historian (d. 1908)
 * September 24 – Carl Constantin Platen, German physician (d. 1899)
 * October 16 – Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld, German obstetrician and gynecologist (d. 1929)November 7 – Heinrich Friedrich Weber, German physicist (d. 1912)
 * November 8 – Moritz Pasch, German mathematician (d. 1930)
 * November 13 – Friedrich Albin Hoffmann, German internist (d. 1924)
 * November 14 – Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, German botanist (d. 1909)
 * November 15 – Joseph König (chemist), German chemist (d. 1930)
 * December 11 – Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910)

Deaths

 * March 27 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
 * June 7 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770)
 * July 2 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755