1877 in Germany

Events in the year 1877 in Germany.

Incumbents

=National level=

Kaiser – William I{{cite web |title=William I {{!}} emperor of Germany |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-I-emperor-of-Germany |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en}}
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck{{cite web |title=BBC - History - Otto von Bismarck |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bismarck_otto_von.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=28 March 2019}}

=State level=

==Kingdoms==

King of Bavaria – Ludwig II{{cite web |title=Louis II {{!}} king of Bavaria |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-II-king-of-Bavaria |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en}}
King of Prussia – William I
King of Saxony – Albert{{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Michael |title=Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera |date=2001 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=9781860646461 |page=180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lagy_JrO3VYC&pg=PA180|language=en}}
King of Württemberg – Charles

==Grand Duchies==

Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Grand Duke of Hesse – Louis III to 13 June, then Louis IV
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis II
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Frederick William
Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Peter II
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – Charles Alexander

==Principalities==

==Duchies==

Events

10 January – German federal election, 1877
Summer – Kissingen Dictation

=Date unknown=

German company Blohm+Voss is founded.

Births

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22 January – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. (died 1970)
7 February – Julius Curtius, German (died 1948)
8 February – Albert Vögler, German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (died 1945)
19 February – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962){{cite book|first=Werner|last=Haftmann|title=Painting In The Twentieth Century|location=London|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=1966|page=409|isbn=978-0-27588-730-8}}
3 March – Alexander Baerwald, German architect (died 1930)
4 March – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fritz-Graebner Fritz Graebner German ethnologist]
6 March – Karl Platen, German actor (died 1952)
12 March – Wilhelm Frick, German politician (died 1946)
15 March – Fritz Lang, German painter (died 1961)
19 March – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (died 1947)
29 March – Alois Kayser, Alsatian-born missionary (died 1944 in Micronesia)
15 April – Georg Kolbe, German painter (died 1947)
23 April – Hans Winkler, German botanist (died 1945)
4 June – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1957)
2 July – Hermann Hesse, German writer (died 1962)
13 September – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (died 1957)
15 September – Wilhelm Adam, German general (died 1949)
1 November – Else Ury, German writer (died 1943)
23 November – Franz Bracht, German politician (died 1933)
4 December – Morris Alexander, South African politician (died 1946 in South Africa){{cite encyclopedia |last=Abrahams |first=Israel |author-link=Israel Abrahams |editor-last=De Kock |editor-first=W. J. |encyclopedia=Dictionary of South African Biography |title=Alexander, Morris |language=en |edition=1st |date=1968 |volume=1 |oclc=85921202 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsout0000unse_p0x9/page/10/mode/2up |page=10}}
19 December – Princess Pauline of Württemberg (died 1965)

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Deaths

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12 January – Wilhelm Hofmeister, German biologist and botanist (born 1824)
18 February - Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, German politician (born 1795)
20 February - Marie Simon, German nurse (born 1824){{Cite web |last=Haufe |first=Kay |date=May 14, 2023 |title=Die vergessene Dresdner Heldin: Marie-Simon-Grab erneuert |trans-title=The Forgotten Dresden Heroine: Marie Simon Grave Renewed |url=https://www.saechsische.de/dresden/lokales/die-vergessene-dresdner-heldin-marie-simon-grab-erneuert-5858585.html |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=Sächsische Zeitung |language=de}}
22 February - Eduard Gaertner, German painter (born 1801)
18 April – Franz Hanfstaengl, German photograph and painter (born 1804)
22 April - August Wilhelm Zumpt, German German classical scholar (born 1815)
11 May – Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, German general (born 1805)
25 May – Friedrich Thyssen, German banker and patriarch of the Thyssen family dynasty (born 1804)
13 June – Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, nobleman (born 1806)
13 July – Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1811)
14 July - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician (born 1795)
12 September – Julius Rietz, German conductor and composer (born 1812)
26 September – Hermann Grassmann (born 1809)
18 October – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German anthropologist and paleoanthropologist (born 1803)
2 November – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, German Generalfeldmarschall (born 1784)
26 November – Richard Lucae, German architect (born 1829)
18 December – Philipp Veit, German painter (born 1793)

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References

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