Events from the year 1869 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 9 May – The German Alpine Club is founded 15 June – The Second German North Polar Expedition departs from Bremerhaven 20 August – Kunsthalle Hamburg opened. 5 September – The foundation stone is laid for Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.
Undated First Deutsches Derby horse race takes place.
Births 25 January – Max Hoffmann, German general (died 1927) 3 February – Johann Becker, German politician (died 1951) 8 March – Rudolf Wissell, politician (died 1962) 15 February – Hans Schrader, German archaeologist (died 1948) 11 May – Erhard Riecke, German dermatologist and venereologist (died 1939) 12 May – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast (died 1946) 18 May – Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, German nobleman (died 1955) 29 May – Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, German diplomat (died 1928) 6 June – Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor (died 1930) 27 June – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1941) 13 August – Paul Behncke, German admiral (died 1937) 31 August – Carl von Opel, German automotive pioneer (died 1927) 22 October – Oskar Hergt, German politician (died 1967) 4 November – Fritz Schumacher, German architect (died 1947) 4 December – Otto Landsberg, German politician (died 1957)
Deaths 19 January – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher (born 1788) 8 February – Karl Gildemeister, German architect (born 1820) 10 March – Carl Theodor Welcker, German journalist and politician (born 1790) 11 March – Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German nobleman (born 1798) 2 April – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, German palaeontologist (born 1801) 15 July – Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker, German publisher (born 1781) 22 July – Julius Braun, German historian (born 1825) 12 November – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (born 1789), died in Italy 22 November – Carl Ferdinand Langhans, German architect (born 1782) 24 November – Anton Westermann, German philologist (born 1806)
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