1857 in Germany

Events from the year 1857 in Germany.

Incumbents

January 18 – Otto von Below, German general (d. 1944){{Cite book |last=Pawly |first=Ronald |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Kaiser_s_Warlords/LqEXDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Kaiser's Warlords: German Commanders of World War I |date=2012-04-20 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78096-673-1 |pages=31 |language=en}}
February 22 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894 )
April 30 – Walter Simon, German philanthropist (d. 1920)
May 27 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928)
June 30 – Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral (d. 1933)
July 5 – Clara Zetkin, German-born Marxist theorist, activist and women's rights advocate (d. 1933)
July 19 – Eugen Bamberger, German chemist (d. 1932)
July 23 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (d. 1944)
August 14 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
August 15 – Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate, owner of the Hamburg America Line (d. 1918)
August 27 – Oskar von Hutier, German general (d. 1934)
September 8 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
November 29 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
December 3 – Franz Bunke, German painter (d. 1939 )

January 27 – Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785){{Cite book |last=Lieven |first=Dorothea |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Correspondence_of_Princess_Dorothea_Liev/2L3w3x4KyVoC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Correspondence of Princess Dorothea Lieven and Earl Grey: Edited and translated by Guy Le Strange |date=1890 |publisher=Rich. Bentley |pages=xvii |language=en}}