Events in the year 1844 in Germany.

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I of Bavaria
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
• King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg
• Grand Duke of Baden – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

• 15 March – opening of Gößnitz station

• Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick

• Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844
• Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
• Waggonfabrik Fuchs

• 3 January – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920)
• 16 January – Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911)
• 14 February – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915)
• 10 March – Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905)
• 25 March – Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930)
• 3 April – Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899)
• 30 April – Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924)
• 17 May – Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (died 1918)
• 6 August – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900)
• 30 August – Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (died 1904)
• 13 September – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1936)
• 15 October – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist (died 1900)^[1]
• 24 November – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist (died 1904)
• 25 November – Carl Benz, German engine designer and automobile engineer (died 1929)^[2]

• 8 March – Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, pastellist (born 1784)
• 11 May – Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs, apothecary and natural history collector (born 1792)^[3]
• 16 May – Joseph Knauer, Bishop of Wroclaw (born 1764)^[4]
• 4 August – Christian Friedrich Illgen, Protestant theologian (born 1786)