1828 in Germany

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
• Kingdom of Bavaria
  • Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
• Kingdom of Saxony
  • Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836)
• Kingdom of Hanover
  • George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)^[3]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
  • George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)^[4]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[5]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)^[6]
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)^[7]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)^[8]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick^[2]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)^[9]

• 26 May – Supposed feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.

• 17 April – Johanna Mestorf, German prehistoric archaeologist (d. 1909)
• 24 November – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (d. 1908)

• 9 July- Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
• 26 October – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (b. 1752)
• 5 November – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Empress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
• 15 November – Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (b. 1752)