1801 in Germany

• Francis II (5 July 1792{{snd}}6 August 1806)

• Bavaria Maximilian I (16 February 1799{{snd}}6 August 1806){{Cite EB1911|volume=17|page=921|wstitle=Maximilian I., king of Bavaria}}
• 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){{Britannica|218066|Frederick William III}}

• 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 XIII (28 June 1800{{snd}}29 January 1817)
• 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
• Francis (8 September 1800{{snd}}9 December 1806)
• 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=https://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}}

• 9 February – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, Aachen is officially annexed by France.

• Ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
• The magnum opus Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Carl Friedrich Gauss is published.

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• 22 January – Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888)
• 19 April – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-Fechner|title=Gustav Fechner - German psychologist and physicist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=18 January 2019}}
• 16 June – Julius Plücker, German mathematician, physicist (died 1868)
• 14 July – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (died 1858)
• 10 August – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866){{cite book|author=Werner Georg Kümmel|title=The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of Its Problems|publisher=Abingdon Press|year=1972|ISBN=9780687279265|page=494}}
• 3 September – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (died 1869)
• 12 October – Carl August von Steinheil, German engineer, astronomer (died 1870)
• 23 October – Albert Lortzing, German composer (died 1851)
• 3 November – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baedeker, Karl|volume=3|page=191}}
• 13 November – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (died 1873)
• 24 November – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860){{Cite NIE|wstitle=Bechstein, Ludwig|year=1905}}
• 4 December – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893){{EB1911 |wstitle=Michelet, Karl Ludwig |volume=18 |page=370 |inline=1}}
• 11 December – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (died 1836)

• Thierry Hermès, German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (died 1878)

• 14 March – Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer (born 1737)
• 25 March – Novalis, German poet (born 1772){{cite book|editor-last=Donehower, Bruce|date=2007|orig-year=1815|author-last=Tieck, Ludwig|author-link=Ludwig Tieck|chapter=Ludwig Tieck "Biography of Novalis, 1815|chapter-url={{Google books|id=UYpkY-G1f84C|page=126|plainurl=yes}}|title=The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents|publisher=Albany, NY: State University of New York Press|pages=126–136|isbn=9780791480687}}
• 26 April – Karl Heinrich Heydenreich, German philosopher (born 1764){{Citation | last=Klemme | first=Heiner F. | year=2006 | contribution=Heydenreich, Karl Heinrich | editor-last=Haakonssen | editor-first=Knud | title=The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=2 | pages=1180–81}}
• 14 May – Johann Ernst Altenburg, German composer, organist and trumpeter (born 1734){{cite web|url=http://www.editions-bim.com/johann-ernst-altenburg-concerto-for-7-trumpets-and-timpani.html|accessdate=22 December 2013|publisher=Editions Bim|title=Altenburg Johann Ernst|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307111256/http://www.editions-bim.com/johann-ernst-altenburg-concerto-for-7-trumpets-and-timpani.html|url-status=dead}}
• 19 September – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (born 1745)
• 23 October – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Kapellmeister, conductor and composer (born 1741)Dieter Härtwig and Laurie Ongley: "Johann Gottlieb Naumann," Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 12 December 2006) [http://www.grovemusic.com/ (subscription access).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=16 May 2008 }}

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