title: 1803 in Germany
text: # 1803 in Germany
  
  Events in the year 1803 in Germany
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Holy Roman Empire
  
  * Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)
  
  **Important Electors**
  
  * Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 1803 – 6 August 1806)
  * Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)
  * Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)
  * Württemberg - Frederick I (1803 – 30 October 1816)
  
  ### Kingdoms
  
  * Kingdom of Prussia
     * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
  
  ### Grand Duchies
  
  * 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
     * Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
  
  ### Principalities
  
  * Schaumburg-Lippe
     * George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
  * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
     * Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)
  * 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)
  * Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
     * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
  * Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
     * Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
  * 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)
  
  ### Other
  
  * Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
     * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
  * 30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
  * 5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
  
  ## Births
  
  ### January–June
  
  * 15 February
     * John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)
     * Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)
  * 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)
  * 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)
  * 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)
  
  ### July–December
  
  * 8 July – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
  * 17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
  * 19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
  * 5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
  * 29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
  * 26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
  * 6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
  * 31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### January–June
  
  * 18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
  * 14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)
  
  ### July–December
  
  * 18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)
  