Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/November/November 1
- 1607 – Birth of poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
- 1880 – Birth of meteorologist Alfred Wegener, who invented the theory of continental drift
- 1903 – Death of classicist and historian Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1949 – The first edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is published