1911 in Germany

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Decades:

Incumbents

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

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).

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)

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]

^ 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.