1853 in Germany
Events from the year 1853 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
Events
- 20 July – The Jade Treaty is signed between Prussia and Oldenburg. Prussia is ceded territory which allows it to construct a major naval base at Wilhelmshaven
Births
- 1 January – Karl von Einem, German general, Prussian Minister of War
- 9 January – Henning von Holtzendorff, German admiral
- 10 January – John Martin Schaeberle, German/American astronomer
- 4 July – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German chemist
- 12 July - Carl Schotten, German chemist
- 26 July - Martin Segitz, German politician
- 2 September – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist
- 20 September – Joseph Kürschner, German editor and publisher
- 23 September – Fritz von Below, German general
- 16 September – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 22 November – Clemens von Ketteler, German diplomat killed during the Boxer Rebellion
Deaths
- 19 January – Karl Faber, German historian
- 15 February – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, German general
- 28 April – Ludwig Tieck, German writer
- 15 December – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist and philologist
- Undated – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer and scholar
