No, he wasn't but apparently during WWII, the Germans claimed that he was. They must have claimed that every good author was German In two different movies that I watched this was the case. They were of course British Propaganda movies.
Well there was a Sherlock Holmes moving The Secret Weapon, with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. In the first scene that takes place in a German restaurant, Holmes is an agent for England, who is pretending to be an agent for Germany, disguised as a bookseller. As the German agent bookseller he pretends to try to sell his two German bosses a collection of Dickens. He was selling the Bismark Papers (Pickwick papers?) written by Charles Dickens "an old German writer". I had to re-watch that part make sure I heard correctly. Later, in the movie Holmes mentions that Dickens was a English writer, so it was not like the people in the movie did not know who Dickens was.
The reference in the next one was "Pimpernel Smith. It was a 'modern' remake of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The German villain was explaining that Shakespeare was actually a German, it was proven by someone or another. Then the undercover professor after expressing surprise at that said "still you must admit that the English translations are most remarkable". Yes, he was being a little cheeky.
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