Events from the year 1811 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) Kingdom of Württemberg Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811) Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818 Grand Duke of Hesse Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Karl August (1809–1815)
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe George William (13 February 1787 - 1860) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835) Principality of Lippe Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817) Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812) Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Brunswick Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
Events 21 November – German poet Heinrich von Kleist shoots his terminally ill lover Henriette Vogel and then himself, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee near Potsdam. Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt established Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry established
Births 27 January – Ernst Dieffenbach, German scientist (d. 1855) 30 or 31 March – Robert Bunsen, German chemist, inventor (d. 1899) 30 September – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (d. 1890) 25 October – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887) 21 November – Ludwig Preiss, German-born British botanical collector (d. 1883) 28 November – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (d. 1864) 3 December – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (d. 1889) 5 December – Justus Carl Hasskarl, German explorer, botanist (d. 1894)
Deaths
11 January – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai writer and bookseller (b. 1733) 3 February – Johann Beckmann, scientist (b. 1739) 19 July – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer (b. 1735) September – Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, German explorer (b. 1767) 8 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741) 21 November – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (suicide) (b. 1777)
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