1911 in Germany

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Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1911 History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

• 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 Duke of Baden – Frederick II
• Grand Duke of Hesse – Ernest Louis
• Frederick Francis IV
• 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

• 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
• Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

• 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

• 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).

• 11 March – Haim Cohn German-born Israeli jurist and politician (died 2002
  )
• Kreisauer Kreis (died 2010
  )
• 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
  )

• 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
  )
• 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]

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