1847 in Germany

Events from the year 1847 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * King of Bavaria – Ludwig I.
 * King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
 * King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
 * King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Event

 * October 12 – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph.

Births

 * President Hindenburg.jpg]] February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920)
 * February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
 * March 27 – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
 * July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
 * July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)
 * October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934)

Deaths

 * May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805)
 * July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776)
 * October 22 – Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764)
 * November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)