1849 in Germany

Events from the year 1849 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
 * King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
 * King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
 * King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Events

 * March – The Frankfurt Parliament completes its drafting of a liberal constitution, and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new German national state.
 * April 2 – The German revolutions of 1848–49 fail, as King Frederick William IV of Prussia refuses to accept the offer of the Frankfurt National Assembly to be crowned as German emperor.
 * May 3 -The May Uprising in Dresden, last of the German revolutions of 1848–49, begins. Richard Wagner is among the participants.
 * May 9 – The May Uprising in Dresden is suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony.
 * June 1 8-German revolutions of 1848–49: The chamber of the Frankfurt Parliament, since reduced to a rump parliament and moved to Stuttgart, was occupied by the Württemberg army. Repression began, which would force the liberal Forty-Eighters into exile.
 * December 3 – German missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann become the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya . The Abgeordnetenhaus, the lower house of the parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria, passes a bill granting German Jews the same legal rights as German Christians. The measure draws a strong reaction from Christians across Bavaria, who sign petitions urging the upper house to prevent the equal rights measure from becoming law.

Births

 * March 19 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930)
 * April 21 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (d. 1922)
 * April 25 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
 * May 3
 * Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer (d. 1944)
 * Bernhard von Bülow, 8th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
 * July 22 – Emma Lazarus, American author and activist (d. 1887 )
 * July 29 -Edward Theodore Compton, English-German painter, mountain climber (d. 1921 )
 * September 23 – Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (d. 1924 )
 * October 26 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917 )
 * December 5 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (d. 1922 )
 * December 6 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945 )

Deaths

 * February 28 – Regina von Siebold, German physician, obstetrician (b. 1771)
 * March 24 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (b. 1780)
 * May 11 -Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (b. 1810 )
 * September 4 – Friedrich Laun, German novelist (b. 1770 )
 * September 6 – Andreas Joseph Hofmann, German philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1752 )