1911 in Germany

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Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

Incumbents

National level

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

State level

Kingdoms

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

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

• July 1 - The German gunboat SMS Panther arrived at the port of Agadir.
• November 4 - Morocco–Congo Treaty in Berlin
• Date unknown - Foundation of Kaiser Wilhelm Society in Berlin.

Births

• 14 January - Hans-Martin Majewski, German film composer (died 1997)
• 25 January - Kurt Maetzig, German film director [died 2012)
• 26 January - Norbert Schultze, German film composer (died 2002)
• 14 February - Robert Remak, German mathematician) (died 1942)
• 18 February - Hans Woellke, German short putter (died 1943)
• 27 February - Heinz Starke, German politician (died 2001)
• 2 March - Otmar Emminger, German economist (died 1986)
• 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)
• 29 March - Brigitte Horney, German actress (died 1988)
• 6 April - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (died 1979)
• 24 April - Karl Schiller, German politician (died 1994)
• 29 May - Leah Goldberg, German-born Israeli poet, author, playwright, translator, and researcher of Hebrew literature (died 1970)
• 27 June - Georg Dascher, German handballer (died 1944)
• 29 June - Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, German-born prince who was the consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (died 2004)
• 28 July - Gerhard Stöck, German athlete (died 1985)
• 31 August - Hans John, German lawyer (died 1945)
• 3 September - Ernst Meister, German writer (died 1979)
• 2 October - Tilly Fleischer, German athlete (died 2005)
• 17 November - Heli Finkenzeller, German actress (died 1991)
• 30 November - Hans Nielsen, German actor (died 1965)
• 10 December — Anni Schaad, German jewelry maker (died 1988)
• 14 December - Hans von Ohain, German physicist (died 1998)
• 14 December - Hans Kutscher, German judge (died 1993)
• 29 December - Klaus Fuchs German physicist and spy (died 1988)

Deaths

• 31 January - Paul Singer, German politician (born 1844)
• 17 March - Friedrich Haase, German actor (born 1827)
• 6 April - Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1832)
• 13 April - Konrad Koch, German teacher and football pioneer (born 1846)
• 29 April - Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, nobleman (born 1846)
• 24 May - Ernst Remak, German neurologist (born 1849)
• 14 June - Fedor Flinzer, German writer (born 1832)
• 21 June - Robert Radecke, German composer and conductor (born 1830)
• 1 August - Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (born 1829)
• 3 August - Reinhold Begas, German sculptor (born 1831)