title: 1812 in Germany
text: # 1812 in Germany
  
  Events from the year 1812 in Germany.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Kingdoms
  
  * Kingdom of Prussia
     * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (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 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)
     * George I (24 September 1812 – 9 September 1813)
  
  ### Duchies
  
  * Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
     * Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)
  * Duke of Brunswick
     * Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
  * 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
  
  * 20 February – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).
  * May – Conference of Dresden
  * 2 July – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.
  * 20 December – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
  * 31 December – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.
  * The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 6 February – Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)
  * 27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
  * 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883)
  * 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
  * 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
  * 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 24 March – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
  * 29 March – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
  * 14 July – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
  * 10 July – Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
  * 23 August – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
  * 19 September – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
  * 21 September – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)
  