1844 in Germany explained

Events in the year 1844 in Germany.

Incumbents

3 January – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920)
16 January – Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911)
14 February – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915)
10 March – Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905)
25 March – Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930)
3 April – Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899)
30 April – Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924)
17 May – Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (died 1918)
6 August – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
30 August – Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (died 1904)
13 September – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1936)
15 October – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist (died 1900)^[1]
24 November – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist (died 1904)
25 November – Carl Benz, German engine designer and automobile engineer (died 1929)^[2]

8 March – Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, pastellist (born 1784)
11 May – Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs, apothecary and natural history collector (born 1792)^[3]
16 May – Joseph Knauer, Bishop of Wroclaw (born 1764)^[4]
4 August – Christian Friedrich Illgen, Protestant theologian (born 1786)

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Book: Friedrich Schildberger. Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz. Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft. 1968. 59.
Marian. Baker. Ludwig Krebs: A naturalist's observations of the Sixth Frontier War (1834-5). Military History Journal. 14 . 2 . December 2007.
[Franz Heinrich Reusch]