Incumbents

National level

Kaiser – William I
Chancellor – Otto von Bismarck

State level

Kingdoms

Grand Duchies

Principalities

Duchies

Events

10 January – German federal election, 1874

Date unknown

German company HeidelbergCement is founded.^[1]

Science

Georg Cantor's paper, Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers") is published in Crelle's Journal, considered as the origin of set theory.^[2]

Births

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1 January –Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927)
1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929)
19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933)
20 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945)
7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor (died 1945)
15 April – Johannes Stark, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
20 April – Carl Bergmann, German banker and diplomat (died 1935)
3 May – Ernst Scholz, German lawyer and politician (died 1932)
4 May – Bernhard Hoetger, German painter (died 1949)
2 June – Ludwig Roselius, German businessman (died 1943)
5 July – Eugen Fischer, German physician (died 1967)
7 July – Erwin Bumke, German judge (died 1945)
17 July – Max Maurenbrecher, SPD and Fatherland Party politician (died 1930)
28 July – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (died 1945)
29 July – August Stramm, German poet and playwright (died 1915)
27 August – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
12 September – Paul Kuhn, German operatic tenor (died 1966)
21 September – Karl Jarres, German politician (died 1951)
15 October - Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German nobleman (died 1899)
16 October – Otto Mueller, German painter (died 1930)
17 October – Ludwig Siebert, German politician (died 1942)
1 November - Wilhelm Dittmann, German politician (died 1954)
14 November – Adolf Brand, German writer (died 1945)
17 November – Eduard Fresenius, German entrepreneur (died 1946)
11 December - Paul Wegener, German actor (died 1948)
14 December – Adam Stegerwald, German politician (died 1945)
26 December – Hans von Rosenberg, German diplomat and politician (died 1937)

Deaths

5 January - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
14 January – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist (born 1834)
19 January – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born 1798)
26 February - Johann Georg Ludwig Hesekiel, German writer (born 1819)
1 April – August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, Gernan statesman (born 1797)
7 April - Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (born 1805)
20 April – Gustav Bläser, German sculptor (born 1813)
23 October – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism (born 1810)
2 November - Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf, German writer and librarian (born 1804)
15 November - Heinrich Brockhaus, German publisher (born 1804)
7 December - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (born 1815)
27 December – Ernst Litfaß, German printer and publisher (born 1816)

References

^ Leon, Steven M. (2013). Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Casebook: Applications in SCM. Pearson Education. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-13-336719-5.
^ Bruno, Leonard C.; Baker, Lawrence W. (1999). Math and mathematicians: the history of math discoveries around the world. Detroit, Mich.: U X L. p. 54. ISBN 978-0787638139. OCLC 41497065.

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