1872 in Germany

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Events from the year 1872 in Germany.

Incumbents

Richard Dedekind publishes Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen, a theory of irrational numbers.
Felix Klein produces the Erlangen program on geometries.
Ludwig Boltzmann states the Boltzmann equation for the temporal development of distribution functions in phase space, and publishes his H-theorem.
Polyvinyl chloride is accidentally synthesised by German chemist Eugen Baumann.

11 January – Paul Graener, German composer and conductor (died 1944)
28 January – Otto Braun, German politician (died 1955)
8 February – Theodor Lessing, German philosopher (died 1933)
24 March – Walther Reinhardt, Army officer (died 1930)
1 April – Conrad Gröber, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1948)
9 April – Theodor Koch-Grunberg, German ethnologue and explorer (died 1924)
19 April – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (died 1948)^[1]
22 April – Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1954)
2 May – Karl Nessler, German inventor of the permanent wave (died 1951)
14 June – Heinrich Vogeler, German painter (died 1942)
22 July – Karl Helfferich, German politician (died 1924)
13 August – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
5 September – Carl Friedrich von Siemens, German entrepreneur (died 1941)
3 October – Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, German scientist and inventor (died 1931)
9 November – Richard Otto, German physician (died 1952)
11 November – Frederick Stock, German composer (died 1942)

1 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (born 1805)
13 May – Moritz Hartmann, German poet and author (born 1821)
24 May – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
21 August – David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (born 1820)
13 September – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher and anthropologist (born 1804)
14 October – Prince Albert of Prussia, German nobleman and Prussian general (born 1809)

^ Schlör, Joachim (2005). Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822-1938 (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 359. ISBN 978-3-52556-990-0.

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