1853 in Germany

Events from the year 1853 in Germany.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 20 July – The Jade Treaty is signed between Prussia and Oldenburg. Prussia is ceded territory which allows it to construct a major naval base at Wilhelmshaven
 * 25 October – Neue Pinakothek in Munich opened.

Births

 * 1 January – Karl von Einem, German general, Prussian Minister of War (died 1934)
 * 9 January – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (died 1919)
 * 10 January – John Martin Schaeberle, German/American astronomer (died 1924)
 * 14 March – Max Saenger, German obstetrician and gynecologist (died 1903)
 * 4 July – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist (died 1923)
 * 12 July - Carl Schotten, German chemist (died 1910)
 * 26 July - Martin Segitz, German politician (died 1927)
 * 2 September – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (died 1932)
 * 20 September – Joseph Kürschner, German editor and publisher (died 1902)
 * 23 September – Fritz von Below, German general (died 1918)
 * 16 September – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1927)
 * 22 November – Clemens von Ketteler, German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion (died 1900)

Full date unknown

 * Otto Wissig, Protestant German parson and author (died 1933)

Deaths

 * 19 January – Karl Faber, German historian (born 1773)
 * 15 February – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, German general (born 1784)
 * 28 April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (born 1773)
 * 15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (born 1775)
 * Undated – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer and scholar (born 1765)