1852 in Germany

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II • King of Hanover – George V • King of Prussia – Frederick William IV • King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II == Event ==

• 8 May – Prussia signs the 1852 London Protocol, a treaty ending the First Schleswig War by nominally returning Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark, while effectively guaranteeing their independence == Births ==

• 11 January – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926) • 2 May – Max von Gallwitz, German general (d. 1937) • • 31 May -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921) • • 25 June - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (d. 1915) • • 9 October – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) • • 10 December - Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937) • • 19 December – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) == Deaths ==

• 21 June – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782) • 15 October – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778) • 17 November – Adolph Carl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768) == References ==