1911 in Germany

Events in the year 1911 in Germany.

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|1901|6}} and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco. TRaymond Poincare, The Origins of the War (Cassell and Company, 1922) p76
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){{cite journal |last1=Shulman |first1=S. T. |last2=Friedmann |first2=H. C. |last3=Sims |first3=R. H. |title=Theodor Escherich: The First Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician? |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |date=15 October 2007 |volume=45 |issue=8 |pages=1025–1029 |doi=10.1086/521946 |pmid=17879920 |doi-access=free }}
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){{EB1911|wstitle=Begas, Reinhold|volume=3 }}
1 October – Wilhelm Dilthey, psychologist, sociologist and philosopher (born 1833)Makkreel, Rudolf, [http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/dilthey/ "Wilhelm Dilthey"], The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
15 October – James H. Schmitz, German-born American science fiction writer (d. 1981){{cite web |url= http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC1&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2407000497&mode=view&userGroupName=mill51837&jsid=eaef3d2954ec6d3042b4abb10a760b7d |author= |title= James H(enry) Schmitz |work= Gale Biography in Context |access-date= October 9, 2012}}