1798 in Germany

Events from the year 1798 in Germany.

Incumbents

Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763{{snd}}20 December 1806){{Cite web|title=General German Biography - Wikisource|url=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Allgemeine_Deutsche_Biographie|access-date=24 January 2021}}

Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797{{snd}}7 June 1840){{Cite web|last=Encyclopaedia Britannica|date=30 July 2018|title=Frederick William III|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785{{snd}}1 February 1837)
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charles II (2 June 1794{{snd}}6 November 1816){{cite book |last= Huish |first= Robert | title =Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third | publisher =T. Kelly | year =1821 | page =170 }}
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Wilhelm (6 July 1785{{snd}}2 July 1823) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign.{{cite web |title=Oldenburg Royal Family |url=http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |website=Monarchies of Europe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |access-date=1 January 2021|archive-date=17 March 2006 }}
Peter I (2 July 1823{{snd}}21 May 1829)
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Schaumburg-Lippe
George William (13 February 1787{{snd}}1860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793{{snd}}28 April 1807){{Cite book| publisher = Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott| isbn = 978-3-910132-29-0| last1 = Apfelstedt| first1 = F.| last2 = Apfelstedt| first2 = Heinrich Friedrich Theodor| title = Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit| date = 1996}}
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794{{snd}}19 August 1835)
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778 – 28 June 1800)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763{{snd}}24 September 1812)

Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 1751{{snd}}9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Georg I (1782–1803){{cite web|url=http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|title=Biografie Georg I (German)|publisher=Meininger Museen|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|archive-date=15 September 2011|url-status=dead}}
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775{{snd}}25 March 1816){{cite book|last=Albinus|first=Robert|title=Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung|publisher=Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg|year=1985|isbn=3-7921-0320-6|location=Leer|pages=371|language=de}}
Duke of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 1797{{snd}}30 October 1816){{Cite book|last=David|first=Saul|url=http://archive.org/details/princeofpleasure00davi|title=Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency|date=1998|publisher=New York : Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-739-5|access-date=24 January 2021}}

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Louis I (6 April 1790{{snd}}14 August 1806){{cite book|title=Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans| trans-title=Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38|year=1768|publisher=Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel|location=Bourdeaux|language=fr|page=38}}

Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.
Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins Lager
12 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein: Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe.
Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)
Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life
Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded
M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded

25 March – Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d. 1852)
30 March – Luise Hensel, German religious author and poet (died 1876)
2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d. 1874)
11 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895){{EB1911|wstitle=Neumann, Franz Ernst}}

20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731){{cite book |title=Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers |last=Greene |first=David Mason |year=2007 |publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd |isbn=978-0-385-14278-6 |page=341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC |access-date=December 7, 2011}}
11 April – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
29 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
25 May – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
20 November – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766)Rönnau, Klaus: "Fleischmann, Friedrich", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}}