1864 in Germany
Events from the year 1864 in Germany.Incumbents
- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II of Bavaria; Ludwig II of Bavaria
- King of Prussia – William I
- King of Saxony – John
Events
- 1 February – Beginning of Second Schleswig War
- 2 February – Battle of Mysunde
- 6 February – Battle of Sankelmark
- 17 March – Battle of Jasmund
- 7–18 April – Battle of Dybbøl
- 25 April – 25 June – London Conference of 1864
- 9 May – Battle of Heligoland
- 29 June – 1 July – Battle of Als
- 3 July – Battle of Lundby
- 30 October – Treaty of Vienna, End of Second Schleswig War
Undated
- Evacuation of Danevirke
- Alfred Enneper publishes his parametrization of the Enneper surface in connection with minimal surface theory
- Hugo Erfurt invents Ingrain wallpaper
Births
- 8 January – Julie Wolfthorn, German painter
- 13 January – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 5 February – Carl Teike, German composer
- 16 February – Hermann Stehr, German novelist and writer
- 24 February – Alfred Jeremias, German pastor, assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East
- 4 March – Johanna Ey, German art dealer
- 30 March – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist
- 11 April – Johanna Elberskirchen, German writer and women rights activist
- 21 April – Max Weber, German sociologist
- 5 May – Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist
- 12 May – Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet
- 15 May – Robert Schmidt, German politician
- 21 May – Otfried Nippold, German jurist
- 22 May – Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter
- 2 June – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral
- 3 June – Albert Fraenkel, German physician
- 11 June – Richard Strauss, German composer
- 14 June – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist
- 16 June – Willy Wolterstorff, German paleontologist and herpetologist
- 22 June – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician, born in Russia
- 25 June – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 18 July – Ricarda Huch, German historian and writer
- 24 July – Frank Wedekind, German playwright
- 12 August – Kuno von Westarp, German politician
- 17 August – Paul Wendland, German philologist
- 20 August – Karl Fritz, German Roman Catholic archbishop
- 27 August – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast
- 19 September – Carl Correns, German biologist
- 26 September – Arthur Kampf, German painter
- 5 October – Arthur Zimmermann, German diplomat
- 30 October – Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist
- 27 November – Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, German admiral, born in Russia
- 31 December – Hans am Ende, German painter
Deaths
- 27 January – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer
- 10 March – Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria
- 2 May – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer, died in France
- 3 August – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee