1864 in Germany

Events from the year 1864 in Germany.

Incumbents

 * King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria; Ludwig II of Bavaria
 * King of Prussia – William I
 * King of Saxony – John

Events

 * 1 February – Beginning of Second Schleswig War
 * 2 February – Battle of Mysunde
 * 6 February – Battle of Sankelmark
 * 17 March – Battle of Jasmund
 * 7–18 April – Battle of Dybbøl
 * 25 April – 25 June – London Conference of 1864
 * 9 May – Battle of Heligoland
 * 29 June – 1 July – Battle of Als
 * 3 July – Battle of Lundby
 * 30 October – Treaty of Vienna, End of Second Schleswig War

Undated

 * Evacuation of Danevirke
 * Alfred Enneper publishes his parametrization of the Enneper surface in connection with minimal surface theory
 * Hugo Erfurt invents Ingrain wallpaper

Births

 * 8 January – Julie Wolfthorn, German painter (died 1944)
 * 13 January – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
 * 5 February – Carl Teike, German composer (died 1922)
 * 16 February – Hermann Stehr, German novelist and writer (died 1940)
 * 24 February – Alfred Jeremias, German pastor, assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East (died 1935)
 * 4 March – Johanna Ey, German art dealer (died 1944)
 * 30 March – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (died 1943)
 * 11 April – Johanna Elberskirchen, German writer and women rights activist (died 1943)
 * 21 April – Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
 * 5 May – Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist (died 1942)
 * 12 May – Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet (died 1920)
 * 15 May – Robert Schmidt, German politician (died 1943)
 * 21 May – Otfried Nippold, German jurist (died 1938)
 * 22 May – Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter (died 1931)
 * 2 June – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (died 1946)
 * 3 June – Albert Fraenkel, German physician (died 1938)
 * 11 June – Richard Strauss, German composer (died 1949)
 * 14 June – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (died 1915)
 * 16 June – Willy Wolterstorff, German paleontologist and herpetologist (died 1943)
 * 22 June – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (died 1909), born in Russia
 * 25 June – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
 * 18 July – Ricarda Huch, German historian and writer (died 1947)
 * 24 July – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (died 1918)
 * 12 August – Kuno von Westarp, German politician (died 1945)
 * 17 August – Paul Wendland, German philologist (died 1915)
 * 20 August – Karl Fritz, German Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1931)
 * 27 August – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
 * 19 September – Carl Correns, German biologist (died 1933)
 * 26 September – Arthur Kampf, German painter (died 1950)
 * 5 October – Arthur Zimmermann, German diplomat (died 1945)
 * 30 October – Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist (died 1936)
 * 27 November – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, German admiral (died 1928), born in Russia
 * 31 December – Hans am Ende, German painter (died 1918)

Deaths

 * 27 January – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)
 * 10 March – Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria (born 1811)
 * 2 May – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (born 1791), died in France
 * 3 August – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (born 1788)