1853 in Germany

Events from the year 1853 in Germany.

Incumbents

20 July – The Jade Treaty is signed between Prussia and Oldenburg. Prussia is ceded territory which allows it to construct a major naval base at Wilhelmshaven
25 October – Neue Pinakothek in Munich opened.

1 January – Karl von Einem, German general, Prussian Minister of War (died 1934)
9 January – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral (died 1919)
10 January – John Martin Schaeberle, German/American astronomer (died 1924)
14 March – Max Saenger, German obstetrician and gynecologist (died 1903)
4 July – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist (died 1923)
12 July - Carl Schotten, German chemist (died 1910)
26 July - Martin Segitz, German politician (died 1927)
2 September – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (died 1932)
20 September – Joseph Kürschner, German editor and publisher (died 1902)
23 September – Fritz von Below, German general (died 1918)
16 September – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1927)
22 November – Clemens von Ketteler, German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion (died 1900)

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19 January – Karl Faber, German historian (born 1773)
15 February – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, German general (born 1784)
28 April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (born 1773)
15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist (born 1775)
Undated – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer and scholar (born 1765)