1911 in Germany

Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

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Incumbents

National level

• Kaiser – Wilhelm II
• Chancellor – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

State level

Kingdoms

• King of Bavaria – Otto
• King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
• King of Württemberg – William II

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Frederick Francis IV
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – Adolphus Frederick V
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg – Frederick Augustus II
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – William Ernest

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe to 29 April, then Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg
• Principality of Lippe – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe
• Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
• Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
• Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt – Frederick II, Duke of Anhalt
• Duke of Brunswick – Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg (regent)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Colonial Governors

• Cameroon (Kamerun) – Otto Gleim (3rd and final term) to October, then ... Hansen (acting governor)
• Kiaochow (Kiautschou) – Oskar von Truppel to 19 August, then Alfred Meyer-Waldeck
• German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) – Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg
• German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) – Albert Hahl (2nd term)
• German Samoa (Deutsch-Samoa) – Wilhelm Solf to 19 December, then Erich Schultz-Ewerth
• German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) – Theodor Seitz
• Togoland – vacant until 31 March, then Edmund Brückner

Events

• 1 July – 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 – 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 – Haim Cohn German-born Israeli jurist and politician (died 2002)
• 29 March – Freya von Moltke, participant in the anti-Nazi resistance group Kreisauer Kreis (died 2010)
• 6 April – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (died 1979)
• 29 May – Leah Goldberg, German-born Israeli poet, author, playwright, translator, and researcher of Hebrew literature (died 1970)
• 10 December – Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (died 1988)
• 14 December – Hans von Ohain, German physicist (died 1998)

Deaths

• 15 February – Theodor Escherich, German-born Austrian pediatrician (b. 1857)^[2]
• 18 February – Eduard Reuss, composer and music biographer (born 1851)
• 25 February – Fritz von Uhde, painter (born 1848)
• 17 March – Friedrich Haase, actor (born 1827)
• 29 April – Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, nobleman (born 1846)
• 3 August – Reinhold Begas, sculptor (born 1831)^[3]
• 1 October – Wilhelm Dilthey, psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (born 1833)^[4]
• 15 October – James H. Schmitz, German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981)^[5]

References

1. Raymond Poincare, The Origins of the War (Cassell and Company, 1922) p76
2. Shulman, S. T.; Friedmann, H. C.; Sims, R. H. (15 October 2007). "Theodor Escherich: The First Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician?". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 45 (8): 1025–1029. doi:10.1086/521946. PMID 17879920.
3.   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Begas, Reinhold". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
4. Makkreel, Rudolf, "Wilhelm Dilthey", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
5. "James H(enry) Schmitz". Gale Biography in Context. Retrieved October 9, 2012.