Events from the year 1857 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – George V King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – John of Saxony
Births
January 18 – Otto von Below, German general (d. 1944) February 22 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894 ) April 30 – Walter Simon, German philanthropist (d. 1920) May 27 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928) June 30 – Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral (d. 1933) July 5 – Clara Zetkin, German-born Marxist theorist, activist and women's rights advocate (d. 1933) July 19 – Eugen Bamberger, German chemist (d. 1932) July 23 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (d. 1944) August 14 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) August 15 – Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate, owner of the Hamburg America Line (d. 1918) August 27 – Oskar von Hutier, German general (d. 1934) September 8 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) November 29 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911) December 3 – Franz Bunke, German painter (d. 1939 )
Deaths
January 27 – Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785)
November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788) December 3 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (b. 1777)
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