1868 in Germany

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig II
• King of Prussia – William I
• King of Saxony – John
• King of Württemberg – Charles of Württemberg
• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I

  Events

• 28 January – The Leipzig Opera House is inaugurated. It was destroyed during the 1943 Bombing of Leipzig.

  Undated

• The Herrenhäuser Brewery is founded in Hanover
• The liberal German People's Party is founded

  Births

• January 3 - Heinrich Brauns, German politician
• January 15 – Otto von Lossow, German general
• January 21 – Felix Hoffmann, German chemist
• March 1 - Alfred Henke, German politician
• March 4 -Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch, German anatomist
• April 19 - Max von Schillings, German conductor
• May 13 - Otto Ritter von Dandl, German politician
• July 7 - Karl Bauer, German artist
• July 9 - Gustav Noske, German politician
• July 12 - Stefan George, German poet
• August 2 - Theodor Wolff, German writer and journalist
• August 10 - Paul Warburg, German/American banker
• September 23 - Johannes Bell, German politician
• October 8 - Max Slevogt, German painter
• November 2 - Wilhelm Kolle, Gemran bacteriologist
• November 8 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician
• November 17 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neuroanatom and psychiater
• November 17 - Paul Hirsch, German politician
• November 25 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, German nobleman
• November 25 - Ernst Däumig, German politician
• December 5 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
• December 9 - Fritz Haber, German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• December 24 - Richard Teichmann, German chess master
• December 24 - Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician

  Deaths

• 8 January - Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg, German statesman and politician
• 16 January - Theodor Schönemann, German mathematician
• 23 January - Heinrich von Brandt, German general
• 3 February - Karl Mathy, German politician
• 29 February - Ludwig I of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria from 1825-1848
• 2 March - Carl Eberwein, German composer
• 22 May - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist
• 29 May - Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg, German criminalist
• 18 July - Emanuel Leutze, German painter, died in the United States
• 21 July - Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert, German historian
• 25 August – Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, German actress
• 29 August - Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist
• 26 September - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician
• 6 December - August Schleicher, German linguist
• 13 December - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer