1911
The National Urban League is founded in New York City with support from wealthy whites and Booker T. Washington. The League stresses employment and industrial opportunities for blacks. Eugene Kinckle Jones is the first executive secretary.
1911
Marcus Garvey forms the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica.
1911
Rudolf Glauer (Rudolf von Sebottendorff) becomes a Turkish citizen in Constantinople. (Roots)
1911
Mikhail Kaganovich, the older brother of Lazar Kaganovich, is arrested for being a member of the Bolshevik party.(Wolf)
1911
Guido von List publishes his GLB 2a (Die Armanenschaft der Ario-Germanen. Zweiter Teil), continuing his "exploration" of the Wotanist priesthood. (Roots)
1911
Lazar Kaganovich first sees Leon Trotsky, at a speech in Kiev. Trotsky, he later said, was already a well-known figure throughout Russia.
1911
Otto Richard Tannenberg a well-known Pan-German writer, publishes Greater Germany: The Work of the Twentieth Century, urging his countrymen to create a great European empire by uniting all German and German-related peoples. (Architect)
1911
John Foster Dulles joins the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell
in New York City.
1911
The Austrian DAP wins three seats in the Austrian parliamentary elections.
1911
Italy's attempt to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to
the Italo-Turkish War.
1911 January 18
Johannes Hering, a member of the local Hammer group in Munich, the Pan-German League and a close friend of both Guido von List and Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, writes to Philipp Stauff, the prominent völkisch journalist, telling him that he has been a Freemason since 1894, but that this "ancient Germanic institution" has been polluted by Jewish and parvenu ideas. He concluded that a revived "Aryan" lodge would be a boon to antisemites. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots)
1911 February 6
Ronald Wilson Reagan is born in Tampico, Illinois, the second of two sons to John (Jack) and Nelle Reagan.
1911 March 21
Johanna Polzl, Hitler's aunt, dies after giving him a
modest inheritance shortly before her death.
1911 April 5
The Hammer group in Magdeburg institutes what
is called the Wotan Lodge, with Hermann Pohl elected Master. (Roots)
1911 April 15
A Grand Lodge is formed with Theodor Fritsch as Grand
Master, but the work of formulating rules and rituals is undertaken by the Wotan
Lodge. (Roots)
1911 May 4
Hitler is ordered by a court in Linz to surrender his
orphan's pension to his sister, Paula.
1911 May 15
The U.S. Supreme Court orders the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it has been operating in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. (NY Times)
1911 May 30
The first long-distance auto race in Indianapolis is won by Ray Harroun.
1911 June
The HAO (Hoher Armanen-Orden or High Armanen-Order),
a tiny inner circle of initiates within the List Society, is formally founded at
the midsummer solstice, when the most dedicated List Society members in Berlin,
Hamburg and Munich travel to meet their Austrian colleagues in Vienna. (Roots)
1911 June 22
KIng George V is officially crowned King of Great Britain.
1911 June 23
Guido von List takes members of the HAO on a "pilgrimage"
to the St. Stephen's catacombs in Vienna, where List claimed to have first
sensed Wotan while still a child. They then continued on to other Wotanist "sanctuaries" on the Kahlenberg, the Leopoldsberg and at Klosterneuburg. (List; Roots)
1911 June 24
During the next three days, List and 10 members of the
HAO, including Philipp Stauff, travel to Bruhl near Mödling, Burg
Kreuzenstein, and finally Carnuntum, where a photo of the "pilgrims"
is taken. (Roots)
1911 July
The Germans send a gunboat to Agadir to put pressure on
the French to guarantee German iron interests in West Morocco and also to cede
parts of the French Congo to Germany during what is called the second Moroccan
crisis. (Roots)
1911 August 1
Omar Bradley (18) begins his education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
