1911 in Germany
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Events in the year 1911 in Germany.
Incumbents
National level
State level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria â Otto
- King of Prussia â Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony â Frederick Augustus III
- King of Württemberg â William II
Grand Duchies
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe â George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe to 29 April, then Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen â Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
- Principality of Lippe â Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
- Reuss Elder Line â Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line â Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont â Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt â Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
- Duke of Brunswick â Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg â Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha â Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen â Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Colonial Governors
- Cameroon (Kamerun) â Otto Gleim (3rd and final term) to October, then ... Hansen (acting governor)
- Kiaochow (Kiautschou) â Oskar von Truppel to 19 August, then Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
- German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) â Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
- German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) â Albert Hahl (2nd term)
- German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) â Wilhelm Solf to 19 December, then Erich Schultz-Ewerth
- German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) â Theodor Seitz
- Togoland â vacant until 31 March, then Edmund Brückner
Events
- 1 July â The Agadir Crisis is triggered when Germany's Ambassador to France, Wilhelm von Schoen, delivers a diplomatic note to France's Foreign Minister Justin de Selves, announcing that Germany has sent the gunboat SMS Panther and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco. T[1]
- 4 November â The Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
Births
- 11 March â Haim Cohn, German-born Israeli jurist and politician (died 2002)
- 29 March
- Brigitte Horney, actress (died 1988)
- Freya von Moltke, participant in the anti-Nazi resistance group Kreisauer Kreis (died 2010)
- 6 April â Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (died 1979)
- 29 May â Leah Goldberg, German-born Israeli poet, author, playwright, translator, and researcher of Hebrew literature (died 1970)
- 15 July â Max Seela, German Waffen-SS officer (died 1999)
- 16 July â Gabriele Wülker, German social scientist and civil servant (died 2001)
- 30 September â Bernd von Brauchitsch, air force officer (died 1974)
- 10 December â Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (died 1988)
- 14 December â Hans von Ohain, German physicist (died 1998)
Deaths
- 15 February â Theodor Escherich, German-born Austrian pediatrician (b. 1857)[2]
- 18 February â Eduard Reuss, composer and music biographer (born 1851)
- 25 February â Fritz von Uhde, painter (born 1848)
- 17 March â Friedrich Haase, actor (born 1827)
- 29 April â Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, nobleman (born 1846)
- 3 August â Reinhold Begas, sculptor (born 1831)[3]
- 1 October â Wilhelm Dilthey, psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (born 1833)[4]
- 15 October â James H. Schmitz, German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981)[5]
