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1911 in Germany

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Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

  • Emperor – 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 and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco. T
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 1 October – Wilhelm Dilthey, psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (born 1833)
  • 15 October – James H. Schmitz, German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981)

References

References

  1. Raymond Poincare, ''The Origins of the War'' (Cassell and Company, 1922) p76
  2. (15 October 2007). "Theodor Escherich: The First Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician?". Clinical Infectious Diseases.
  3. {{EB1911
  4. Makkreel, Rudolf, [http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/dilthey/ "Wilhelm Dilthey"], The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
  5. "James H(enry) Schmitz". [[Gale (publisher).
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