title: 1828 in Germany
text: # 1828 in Germany
  
  Events from the year 1828 in Germany
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Kingdoms
  
  * Kingdom of Prussia
     * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
  * Kingdom of Bavaria
     * Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
  * Kingdom of Saxony
     * Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
  * 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
     * 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) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick
  * Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
     * Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 26 May – Supposed feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 17 April – Johanna Mestorf, German prehistoric archaeologist (d. 1909)
  * 24 November – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (d. 1908)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 9 July- Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
  * 26 October – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (b. 1752)
  * 5 November – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Empress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
  * 15 November – Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (b. 1752)
  