Events from the year 1850 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Events 31 January – The Constitution of Prussia is adopted. 25 July - Battle of Isted 28 August – Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt. 24 November - Battle of Lottorf 29 November – The Punctation of Olmütz was agreed between the Austrian Empire and Prussia. It granted the Austrians leadership of the revived German Confederation.
Births 6 January - Eduard Bernstein, German politician (died 1932) 17 February - Georg Theodor August Gaffky, German bacteriologist (died 1918) 7 March - Georg von Vollmar, Bavarian politician (died 1922) 9 March - Josias von Heeringen, German general (died 1926) 18 March - Ernst Büchner, German chemist (died 1924) 1 April - Hans von Pechmann, German chemist (died 1902) 9 April - Hermann Zumpe, German conductor and composer (died 1903) 16 April – Paul von Breitenbach, German railway planner (died 1930) 6 June – Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1918) 13 June - Max Lenz, German historian (died 1932) 12 July - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (died 1912) 20 October - Adolf Rosenzweig, German rabbi (died 1918) 16 December - Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (died 1902)
Deaths 27 January - Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (born 1764) 13 May - Johann Jakob Bernhardi, German physician and botanist (born 1774) 21 May – Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, German theological writer, preacher (born 1766) 14 July– August Neander, German theologian, church historian (born 1789) 22 September – Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist (born 1783) 4 November – Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar and writer (born 1792) 28 December - Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer (born 1780)
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