1911 in Germany
Events in the year 1911 in Germany.
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See also: | Other events of 1911 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
Incumbents
National level
Kingdoms
- King of Bavaria – Otto
- King of Prussia – Wilhelm II
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus III
- King of Württemberg – William II
Grand Duchies
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
- Raymond Poincare, The Origins of the War (Cassell and Company, 1922) p76
- 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.
- 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.
- Makkreel, Rudolf, "Wilhelm Dilthey", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
- "James H(enry) Schmitz". Gale Biography in Context. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
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