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Events from the year 1872 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
 - King of Prussia – William I
 - King of Saxony – John
 - King of Württemberg – Charles
 
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe – Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
 - Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – George Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
 - Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
 - Principality of Lippe – Leopold III, Prince of Lippe
 - Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz
 - Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
 - Waldeck and Pyrmont – George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 
Duchies
Events
- 4 July – Jesuits Law is promulgated
 - 12 November – Dresdner Bank is founded
 
Science
- 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.
 
Undated
- Radeberger Brewery is opened
 
Deaths
- 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)
 
Births
- 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)
 
References
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