diff --git a/spacy/de/language_data.py b/spacy/de/language_data.py
index 8cadecd8f..54c907779 100644
--- a/spacy/de/language_data.py
+++ b/spacy/de/language_data.py
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS = {
 
 
 ORTH_ONLY = [
-    "''",
+    "'",
     "\\\")",
     "<space>",
     "a.",