1847 in Germany

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	Other events of 1847; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1847 in Germany.

Incumbents

October 12 – German inventors and industrialists Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske found Siemens & Halske to develop the electrical telegraph.

Paul von Hindenburg
February 4 – Remus von Woyrsch, German field marshal (d. 1920)
February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
March 27 – -Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
July 20 – Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)
October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934)

^ Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-67400-084-1.