1880 in Germany

Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	Other events of 1880; History of Germany • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1880 in Germany.

Incumbents

3 April – German company Munich Re is founded.
14 August – Construction of the Cologne Cathedral is finally completed after over 600 years.

8 February – Franz Marc, German painter (died 1916)
21 February – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died 1952)
10 April – Hans Purrmann, German painter (died 1966)
6 May – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer (died 1938)
14 May – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (died 1971)
15 May – F. K. Otto Dibelius, German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (died 1967)
29 May – Oswald Spengler, German historian (died 1936)
25 June – Erich Emminger, German politician (died 1951)
29 June – Ludwig Beck, German general (died 1944)
1 July – Herbert Koch, German archaeologist (died 1962)
3 July – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (died 1967)
11 July – Dorothea Köring, German tennis player (died 1945)
12 July – Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, Prussian nobleman (died 1925)
5 August – Hermann Lüdemann, German politician (died 1959)
30 August – Konrad von Preysing, German prelate of Roman-Catholic Church (died 1950)
14 September – Karl Kimmich, German banker (died 1945)
28 September – Otto Sackur, German physical chemist (died 1914)
14 October – Bruno Heinemann, German officer (died 1918)
1 November – Alfred Wegener, German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist (died 1930)
11 November – Alexander Behm, German physicist (died 1952)
20 November – Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919)
3 December – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (died 1945)

4 January – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (born 1829)
4 January – Karl Friedrich Lessing, German painter (born 1808)
12 January – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, German author and novelist (born 1805)
12 February – Karl von Holtei, German poet and actor (born 1798)
15 February – Ernst August Hagen, German writer and novelist (born 1797)
17 February – Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, German chemist (born 1841)
29 March – Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, German publicist and philosophe (born 1819)
6 May – Friedrich Bayer, German entrepreneur (born 1825)
22 May – Heinrich von Gagern, German politician (born 1799)
13 June – Heinrich Strack, German architect (born 1805)
30 August – Hermann Anschütz, German painter (born 1802)
13 December – Martin Gropius, German architect (born 1824)

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