NEXT PAGE TIMEBASE CATALOG SEARCH PEOPLE WORDS MAPS REFS HOME	TIMEBASE 1911 (Note: Use your browser's "Find" or "Search" icon to locate specific information on almost any subject, person, place, date, or thing you wish to investigate. Click highlighted dates for additional links.) 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 this "ancient Germanic institution" has been polluted by Jewish and parvenu ideas. He concluded that a revived "Aryan" lodge would be a great boon to antisemites. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots) 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 theWotan Lodge. (Roots) 1911 May 4 Hitler is ordered by a court in Linz to surrender his orphan's pension to his sister, Paula. 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 Summer The Hoher Armanen-Orden or High Armanen-Order (HAO), 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, including Philipp Stauff, travel to meet their Austrian colleagues in Vienna. (Roots) 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 Italy's attempt to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War. 1911 September 6 Dr. Jorg Lanz-Liebenfel (Adolf Joself Lanz) uses the title "von" on his letterhead to Johannes Hering (the first traceable use by Lanz).(Bundesarchiv, Koblenz) (Goodrick-Clark says Lanz was using title by 1903.) 1911 September 14 Russian Prime Minister Pyotyr Stolypin is assassinated while watching an opera with the Czar in Kiev. The assassin, Dmitri Bogrov, is said to be a terrorist, but was later discovered to be a police agent. 1911 October 25 Winston Churchill is appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain. 1911 November 11 Guido von List receives a letter from an individual calling himself "Tarnhari," who claims to be the descendant or reincarnation of a chieftain of the ancient Wölsungen tribe in prehistoric Germany. During the early postwar years this same person (Ernst Lauterer) is closely associated with Dietrich Eckart, Hitler's mentor in the early days of the Nazi Party. (Tarnhari popularized List's writings during WWI as can be seen from the writings of Ellegaard Ellerbek (Gustav Leisner), a völkisch-mystical writer who paid extravagant tribute to both List and Tarhari.) (Roots) 1911 November Hermann Pohl sends a circular to some fifty potential antisemitic collaborators, stating that the Hammer group in Magdeburg has already established a lodge upon appropriate racial principles with a ritual based on Germanic pagan tradition. Pohl urges his correspondents to join his movement and to form lodges of their own, adding that this project has the full support of Theodor Fritsch. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots) 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 Italian forces seize Tripoli. 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) Copyright © 1997 R.H. Perez de Cruet All Rights reserved. NEXT TIMEBASE Home Page

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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 this "ancient Germanic institution" has been polluted by Jewish and parvenu ideas. He concluded that a revived "Aryan" lodge would be a great boon to antisemites. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots)

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 theWotan Lodge. (Roots)

1911 May 4 Hitler is ordered by a court in Linz to surrender his orphan's pension to his sister, Paula.

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 Summer The Hoher Armanen-Orden or High Armanen-Order (HAO), 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, including Philipp Stauff, travel to meet their Austrian colleagues in Vienna. (Roots)

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 Italy's attempt to annex Cyrenaica and Tripolitania leads to the Italo-Turkish War.

1911 September 6 Dr. Jorg Lanz-Liebenfel (Adolf Joself Lanz) uses the title "von" on his letterhead to Johannes Hering (the first traceable use by Lanz).(Bundesarchiv, Koblenz) (Goodrick-Clark says Lanz was using title by 1903.)

1911 September 14 Russian Prime Minister Pyotyr Stolypin is assassinated while watching an opera with the Czar in Kiev. The assassin, Dmitri Bogrov, is said to be a terrorist, but was later discovered to be a police agent.

1911 October 25 Winston Churchill is appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain.

1911 November 11 Guido von List receives a letter from an individual calling himself "Tarnhari," who claims to be the descendant or reincarnation of a chieftain of the ancient Wölsungen tribe in prehistoric Germany. During the early postwar years this same person (Ernst Lauterer) is closely associated with Dietrich Eckart, Hitler's mentor in the early days of the Nazi Party.

(Tarnhari popularized List's writings during WWI as can be seen from the writings of Ellegaard Ellerbek (Gustav Leisner), a völkisch-mystical writer who paid extravagant tribute to both List and Tarhari.) (Roots)

1911 November Hermann Pohl sends a circular to some fifty potential antisemitic collaborators, stating that the Hammer group in Magdeburg has already established a lodge upon appropriate racial principles with a ritual based on Germanic pagan tradition. Pohl urges his correspondents to join his movement and to form lodges of their own, adding that this project has the full support of Theodor Fritsch. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots)

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 Italian forces seize Tripoli.

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)

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