26 January 1911Der Rosenkavalier PremiereRichard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier receives its world premiere at the Royal Opera.
Historical records for Germany in 1911, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Der Rosenkavalier receives its world premiere at the Royal Opera.
The new comic opera establishes an immediate international success.
Mahlefallls seriously ill with a streptococcal blood infection, and conducts his last concert in a fever
Helps organize the first International Women's Day in Germany.
Supports nationwide Social Democratic events demanding votes for women.
Mobilizes working women through the party's first International Women's Day.
Campaigns for women's suffrage through coordinated socialist demonstrations.
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz is born in Esslingen.
The future German nuclear physicist and research leader is born.
Elisabeth Grummer is born in German-administered Alsace-Lorraine.
The future German lyric soprano is born near Diedenhofen.
Receives the title of court councillor from Duke Carl Eduard.
Completes an officer-training course at the Royal Cadet School.
Begins studies at the Royal Officer Cadet Academy
Prepares for a new musical appointment connected with the Meiningen court.
Studies military subjects before receiving his lieutenant's commission.
Receives a commission in the First Uhlan Regiment.
Begins active service as a Prussian cavalry officer.
Feodor Lynen is born in Munich.
The future Nobel-winning biochemist is born in Bavaria.
Taken to Paris, where a new serum had recently been developed, does not respond and is taken back to Vienna at his request where he dies from his infection on 18 May 1911 at the age of 50, leaving his Symphony No. 10 unfinished. Death of Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
The German gunboat Panther arrives at the port of Agadir
Uses naval pressure to strengthen Germany's colonial bargaining position.
Approves the government's naval demonstration at Agadir.
Creates an international crisis through a calculated display of naval power.
Supports an assertive attempt to obtain colonial concessions from France.
Supports sending the gunboat Panther to Agadir.
Initiates the dispatch of the Panther to the Moroccan port.
Oversees enactment of the comprehensive Reich Insurance Code.
Consolidates major German social-insurance laws within one statutory framework.
Communicates German demands for compensation during the Moroccan crisis.
Directs government policy during negotiations with France over Morocco.
Reports strong British opposition to Germany's Agadir policy.
Seeks territory in equatorial Africa through diplomatic pressure.
Demands French colonial territory in the Congo region as compensation for accepting French predominance in Morocco.
Represents Germany in negotiations with the French government.
Warns Berlin that the crisis is worsening relations with Britain.
Seeks colonial compensation while attempting to contain the international crisis.
Leads the Social Democratic Party congress in Jena.
Participates in the SPD congress as a national executive member.
Guides debates on electoral reform, organization and political strategy.
Supports the party's organizational work before the coming Reichstag election.
Takes a senior role within the national SPD organization.
Joins the national leadership of Germany's largest socialist organization.
Is elected chairman of the Social Democratic Party.
Is elected to the Social Democratic Party executive.
Contributes expertise from precision measurements of infrared radiation.
Participates in the Solvay meeting devoted to radiation and quanta.
Participates in the first Solvay Conference on radiation and quanta.
Attends the first Solvay Conference as an experimental physicist.
Attends the first Solvay Conference on radiation theory.
Contributes to discussions concerning emerging quantum concepts.
Discusses quantum theory with leading European physicists in Brussels.
Engages in international debate on quantum and thermodynamic problems.
Under the Treaty of Fez Germany cedes France a small area of territory to the south-east of Fort Lamy, now part of Chad. A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I
Approves territorial gains for Kamerun while abandoning claims in Morocco.
Recognizes French predominance in Morocco in exchange for African territory.
Obtains parts of French Equatorial Africa for German Kamerun.
Accepts the agreement ending the confrontation with France.
Supports the Franco-German agreement transferring parts of French Equatorial Africa to German Cameroon.
Concludes the November settlement by which Germany accepts France's Moroccan position in exchange for territory adjoining Cameroon.
A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I
Under the Treaty of Fez Germany cedes France a small area of territory to the south-east of Fort Lamy, now part of Chad
Under the Treaty of Fez Germany cedes France a small area of territory to the south-east of Fort Lamy, now part of Chad
A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I
A 275 000 km territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I
Under the Treaty of Fez Germany cedes France a small area of territory to the south-east of Fort Lamy, now part of Chad
Birth of Josef Mengele
Is honored for foundational discoveries concerning black-body heat radiation.
Receives the Nobel Prize for laws governing thermal radiation.
Reviews experimental and theoretical work leading toward quantum physics.
Delivers his Nobel lecture on the laws of thermal radiation.
Klaus Fuchs is born in Russelsheim in the German Empire.
The future theoretical physicist is born into a German family.
Becomes state secretary of the Imperial Colonial Office.
Assumes responsibility for Germany's overseas colonial administration.
Reviews German mobilization requirements amid heightened European tension.
Directs the Prussian War Ministry during army-strength planning.
Serves as inspector responsible for German field artillery.
Jodl attends the Bavarian War School as part of his preparation for commissioned service.
Symphony No. 10 (1910-1911) (unfinished; a continuous "beginning-to-end" draft of 1,945 bars exists, but much of it is not fully elaborated and most of it not orchestrated.)
Studies staff duties and operational planning before the First World War.
Appointed Captain
Advances targeted antimicrobial treatment through compound 606.
Is commissioned lieutenant in Infantry Regiment Number 111.
Winner of the Nobe Prize for Physics. Wiens law states that the hotter the body the shorter its radiation wavelegnth
Manages federal legislative business during the Bethmann Hollweg government.
Retires three years before his wartime recall.
Oversees artillery readiness, organization and professional development.
Appointed Field Marshal
Is promoted to field marshal while already retired.
Begins his first substantial appointment leading an established German orchestra.
Resists foreign-policy concessions that might restrict naval development.
Blomberg enters the General Staff
Continues professional staff training within the Prussian Army.
Leads the Great General Staff during the Agadir crisis.
Develops deployment arrangements for a possible European war.
The revised fairy-tale opera reaches a major German stage.
Receives promotion to grand admiral in the Imperial Navy.
Receives the army's highest rank for his long military service.
Coordinates domestic administration as vice chancellor and interior secretary.
Continues directing the fleet programme as Germany's senior naval official.
Begins commissioned service after entering the army as an officer cadet.
Appointed Inspector of the Artillery
His opera Konigskinder is performed at the Berlin court opera.
Becomes music director in Lubeck at the age of twenty-five.
Leads the General Staff section responsible for mobilization planning.
Continues advocating expansion of the German battle fleet.
Receives Bavarian personal nobility for his work preserving folk culture and thereafter uses the title Ritter von Kahr.
Is promoted to captain after joining the Great General Staff.
Is promoted to the rank of grand admiral.
Prepares military legislation connected with the 1911 quinquennial programme.
Retires from active service as a General
Leaves active military service after commanding an army corps.
Oversees expanding clinical use of Salvarsan against syphilis.
Responds to medical controversy concerning Salvarsan administration and toxicity.
Appointed Member of SDP executive
Reaches the highest naval rank while directing imperial naval policy.
Supports international adoption of the serological method bearing his name.
Emphasizes careful preparation, dosage and intravenous treatment procedures.
Begins professional military education at the Prussian War Academy.
Continues promoting the complement-fixation test for diagnosing syphilis.
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