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List of events
Events from the year 1879 in
Germany .
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
Grand Duchies
Principalities
Duchies
Events
Births
4 February –
Wilhelm von Gayl , German politician (died
1945 )
25 February –
Julius Falkenstein , German actor (died
1933 )
2 March –
Johann Viktor Bredt , German jurist and politician (died
1940 )
8 March –
Otto Hahn , German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died
1968 )
9 March –
Agnes Miegel , German poet (died
1964 )
10 March –
Hans Luther , German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died
1962 )
12 March –
Alfred Abel , German actor (died
1837 )
14 March –
Albert Einstein , German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the
general theory of relativity (died
1955 )
27 April –
Alfred Roth , German politician and writer (died
1948 )
31 May –
F.W. Schröder-Schrom , German actor (died
1956 )
28 May –
Albert Grzesinski , German politician (died
1948 )
6 September
9 October –
Max von Laue , German physicist (died
1960 )
28 October –
Martin Kirschner , German surgeon (died
1942 )
29 October –
Franz von Papen , German politician,
Chancellor of Germany (died
1969 )
1 November –
Oskar Barnack , German inventor and German photographer (died
1936 )
14 December –
Hermann Dietrich , German politician (died
1954 )
16 December –
Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye , German fashion designer (died
1959 )
Deaths
24 January –
Heinrich Geißler , German physicist (born
1814
23 February –
Albrecht von Roon , Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born
1803 )
25 February –
Karl Wilhelm von Willisen , Prussian general (born
1790 )
13 March –
Adolf Anderssen , German chess master (born
1818 )
4 April –
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , German physicist and meteorologist (born
1803 )
11 May –
Bernhard Wolff , German newspaper publisher (born
1811 )
15 May –
Gottfried Semper , German architect (born
1803 )
5 June –
August Krönig , German chemist and physicist (born
1822 )
7 September –
George Westermann , German publisher (born
1810 )
23 August –
Alexander Duncker , German publisher (born
1813 )
20 October –
Bernhard Ernst von Bülow , German diplomat and politician (born
1815 )
1 December –
Franz Ittenbach , German painter (born
1813 )
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References
^ Zimmermann, Moshe. Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism . New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 71.
^ Williamson, George Charles (1913).
"Franz Ittenbach" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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