1821 in Germany
list of events
Events from the year 1821 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 Hanover
George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
Kingdom of Württemberg
William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden
Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)
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
George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)
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
Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
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 XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)
Duke of Brunswick
Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)
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 William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)
Events
Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, wishing to build a monument to German unity and heroism (and the defeat of Napoleon), commissions Leo von Klenze to build a replica of the Parthenon on a bluff overlooking the Danube River near Regensburg, the Walhalla memorial.
The only two issues of Der Bibel'sche Orient appear in Munich (April 24 and August 12).
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31
Franz Schubert
"Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", D.714; part song for male voices and low strings; Op.posth. 167 (1858)
Symphony No. 7 in E major, D 729
Carl Maria von Weber – Konzertstück in F minor, for piano and orchestra, Op. 79
Births
27 January – August Becker, German landscape painter (died 1887)
19 February – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
1 March – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
17 May – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d.
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