1850 in Germany

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

  Events

• 31 January – The Constitution of Prussia is adopted.
• 25 July - Battle of Isted
• 28 August – Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt.
• 24 November - Battle of Lottorf
• 29 November – The Punctation of Olmütz was agreed between the Austrian Empire and Prussia. It granted the Austrians leadership of the revived German Confederation.

  Births

• 6 January - Eduard Bernstein, German politician
• 17 February - Georg Theodor August Gaffky, German bacteriologist
• 7 March - Georg von Vollmar, Bavarian politician
• 9 March - Josias von Heeringen, German general
• 1 April - Hans von Pechmann, German chemist
• 9 April - Hermann Zumpe, German conductor and composer
• 16 April – Paul von Breitenbach, German railway planner
• 6 June – Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 13 June - Max Lenz, German historian
• 12 July - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist
• 20 October - Adolf Rosenzweig, German rabbi

  Deaths

• 27 January - Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor
• 13 May - Johann Jakob Bernhardi, German physician and botanist
• 21 May – Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, German theological writer, preacher
• 14 July– August Neander, German theologian, church historian
• 22 September – Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist
• 4 November – Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar and writer
• 28 December - Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer