Timeline Monday 11 August 1919

Events on Monday 11 August 1919 4

• 1835 – 1919 Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Died 11 August 1919, aged 83 Carnegie built the Carnegie Steel Company into the dominant force in the American steel industry before selling it in 1901 to devote himself to philanthropy. He gave away most of his fortune, funding thousands of public libraries and institutions worldwide.
• 1918 – 1919 German Revolution of 1918 End of the Monarchy Mass protests that replaced the imperial government with the democratic Weimar Republic.
• 1919 Weimar Constitution adopted Germany's new republic gets a democratic charter The National Assembly meeting in Weimar adopted a constitution establishing Germany as a federal parliamentary republic with Friedrich Ebert as president. The document combined proportional representation with sweeping presidential emergency powers that would later be exploited by opponents of democracy.
• 1919 Weimar Republic established Germany becomes a republic The Weimar Constitution established Germany as a democratic republic after World War I.