1866 in Germany

These are events from the year 1866 in Germany.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Alfred Nobel – invents dynamite in Germany.AlfredNobel2.jpg invents dynamite in 1866]]

January–March

 * 10 January – Ludwig Aschoff, German physician and pathologist (d. 1942)
 * 28 January – Georg Friederici (d. 1947)
 * February – Karl Albert Buehr, painter (d. 1952)
 * 6 March – Hans Christiansen, artist (d. 1947)
 * 7 March – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
 * 13 March – Friedrich Boedicker,  Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) (d. 1944)
 * 15 March – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)

April–June

 * 11 April – Karl Bürger, German classical scholar (d. 1936)
 * 22 April – Hans von Seeckt, German general (d. 1936)
 * 23 May– Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist (d. 1944)
 * 8 June – Hermann Fenner-Behmer (d. 1913)
 * 26 June – Josef Swickard, German actor (d. 1940 )

July–September

 * 8 July – Benedict Friedlaender (d. 1908)
 * 5 August – Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
 * 16 September – Joe Vila, American sportswriter (d. 1934)
 * 24 September –Max Bernhauer, German entomologist (d. 1946 )

October–December

 * 27 October – Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent. (d. 1949)
 * 3 November – Paul Lincke, German composer (d. 1946)
 * 20 November– Friedrich von Berg, German politician and chairman of the Secret Civil Cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1939)
 * 21 November – Hermann Boettcher, actor (d. 1935)
 * 24 November – Rudolf Biebrach, German actor and film director (d. 1938)
 * 12 December – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

January–June

 * 31 January – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages (b. 1788)
 * 6 March – Theodor Brüggemann, Prussian government official and politician (b. 1796)

July–December

 * 20 July – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
 * 30 August or 10 September – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-French astronomer and painter (b. 1802)