1854 in Germany

Events from the year 1854 in Germany.

Incumbents

15 July – The Glaspalast is opened in Munich.{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Stanford |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Peter_Behrens_and_a_New_Architecture_for/2cpHqRiK3LcC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century |date=2002-08-23 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-51130-8 |pages=145 |language=en}} A giant glass building modelled on London's Crystal Palace, it houses an industrial exhibition.

Construction finishes on the neoclassical Semper Gallery in Dresden designed by Gottfried Semper{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Virginia |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_Museums_of_the_World/tcJ4LzJpmHwC?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=1854 |title=Art Museums of the World |date=1987 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-25877-0 |pages=341 |language=en}}
Karl Wilhelm sets the words of Max Schneckenburger's poem "Die Wacht am Rhein" to music, creating a patriotic anthem.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Cyclopaedia/N5IcuyqargIC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The American Cyclopaedia |date=1876 |pages=623 |language=en}}
Gustav Bläser's sculpture Athena Protects the Young Hero is installed in Berlin

17 February – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (died 1902)
14 March - Paul Ehrlich, German physician, scientist (died 1915)
15 March – Emil von Behring, German physiologist, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1917)
18 April – Ludwig Levy, German architect (died 1907)
11 May - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German inventor of linotype (died 1899)
23 August - Moritz Moszkowski, German/Polish composer and pianist (died 1925)
1 September – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (died 1921)
13 September - Hermann von Stein, German general (died 1927)
Date unknown
Wilhelm Walloth, writer (died 1932)

==Deaths==

1 January - Conrad Hinrich Donner, German banker and art collector (born 1774)
25 March - Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken (born 1704)
11 April – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician (born 1799)
27 April - Hermann Abeken, German political writer (born 1820)
18 May - Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede, German statesman and politician (born 1794)
13 June – Rosina Regina Ahles, German actor (born 1799)
20 June - Caroline of Hesse-Homburg (born 1771)
6 July – Georg Ohm, German physicist (born 1789)
25 July - Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, German anatomist (born 1803)
2 August – Heinrich Clauren, German writer (born 1771)
9 August - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, king of Saxony (born 1797)
20 August - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (born 1775)
18 September - Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder, German anatomist (born 1724)
26 October – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen consort of Bavaria (born 1792)
23 November - Gottfried Bernhard Göz, German painter (born 1708)
13 December - Andreas Buchner, German historian (born 1776)