Contents

• Incumbents
• Event
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1852 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – George V
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Event

• 8 May – Prussia signs the 1852 London Protocol, a treaty ending the First Schleswig War by nominally returning Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark, while effectively guaranteeing their independence ^{[1] [2]}

Births

• 11 January – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
• 2 May – Max von Gallwitz, German general (d. 1937)
• 31 May -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
• 25 June - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (d. 1915)
• 9 October – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 10 December - Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937)
• 19 December – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

Deaths

• 21 June – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782)
• 15 October – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778)
• 17 November – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768)

References