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Events from the year 1855 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke
Births
- February 17 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general (d. 1929)
- February 24 – Johannes von Eben, German general (d. 1924 )
- May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
- June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923)
- July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
- August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (d. 1916)
- August 27 – Hugo von Kathen, German general (d. 1932)
- September 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer (d. 1927)
- October 10 – Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (d. 1931)
Deaths
- February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
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