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Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

Incumbents

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