This Weimar Timeline charts the chronology of the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

, dating the pre-history before the adoption of the actual Weimar constitution. This timeline stops when Hitler establishes the Third Reich.

The timeline is color-coded:

• Black: Regular events of the Weimar republic and its pre-history.
• Red: Events pertaining to Adolf Hitler.
• Brown: Events regarding the German Workers' Party and the Nazi Party.
• All other events pertaining to the rise of Nazism
  Nazism
  Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
  
   in Germany are bolded.

For a chronology focusing on the rise of Nazism see Early Nazi Timeline

Early Nazi Timeline

The early timeline of Nazism begins with its origins in 1896 and continues until Hitler's rise to power.- Prehistory of National Socialism :*1834 the term "Nationalsozialismus" first appears in Print: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, page 36...

.

End of the German Empire

German Empire

The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...

• 1 August 1914 World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   breaks out.
• 14 April 1917 Government announces reduction in bread rations.
• 15 April 1917 200,000 Socialists and Communists stage major strikes in Germany
• 13 July 1917 Dr. Georg Michaelis
  Georg Michaelis
  Georg Michaelis became the first Chancellor of Germany with a non-noble background.-Biography :Michaelis, born in Haynau in the Prussian Province of Silesia, grew up in Frankfurt...
  
   replaces Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg as Chancellor of Germany.
• 31 October 1917 Michaelis resigns, replaced by Count Georg von Hertling

1918

• 4 October 1918 Prince Maximilian of Baden
  Prince Maximilian of Baden
  Maximilian of Baden was a German prince and politician...
  
   replaces Count Georg von Hertling as Chancellor of Germany
• 7 October – 3 November 1918 Naval mutinies (see German Revolution
  German Revolution
  The German Revolution was the politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I, which resulted in the replacement of Germany's imperial government with a republic...
  
  )
• 4 November 1918 Sailors and worker's councils declare general strike
  General strike
  A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region, or country. While a general strike can be for political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants...
  
  s.
• 5 November 1918 3rd Squadron revolts.
• 7 November 1918 100,000 workers march on the Royal House of Wittelsbach
  Wittelsbach
  The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria.Members of the family served as Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria , Counts Palatine of the Rhine , Margraves of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland , Elector-Archbishops of Cologne , Dukes of...
  
  . The King of Bavaria
  King of Bavaria
  King of Bavaria was a title held by the hereditary Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria in the state known as the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1805 until 1918, when the kingdom was abolished...
  
   flees.
• 8 November 1918 All 22 of Germany’s lesser kings, princes, grand dukes, and ruling dukes had been deposed.
• 9 November 1918 Proclamation of the Republic by Philipp Scheidemann, some hours later: proclamation of the Socialist Republic by Karl Liebknecht; also:
  • Matthias Erzberger arrives at Allied HQ at Compiegne.
  • Kaiser Wilhelm told to abdicate, before he can decide Prince Max formally announces the abdication of Wilhelm.
  • Social Democrats
    Social Democratic Party of Germany
    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
    
     demand government from Prince Max.
  • Friedrich Ebert
    Friedrich Ebert
    Friedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .When Ebert was elected as the leader of the SPD after the death of August Bebel, the party members of the SPD were deeply divided because of the party's support for World War I. Ebert supported the Burgfrieden and...
    
     assumes the chancellery.
  • First German Republic established.
• 11 November 1918 First World War
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   ended.
• Mid December, 1918 First Freikorps
  Freikorps
  Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...
  
   unit formed; Maercker Volunteer Rifles.
• 23 December 1918 Lt. Dorrenbach with the Volksmarine Division declare gov. under arrest, surround the chancellory and occupy phone exchange.
• 24 December 1918 Battle of the Schloss
  Battle of the Schloss
  The Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss was a small skirmish between the Communist Revolutionary Volksmarine unit and a regular German army unit on 24 December 1918. The Volksmarine unit under Lt...
  
  
• 30 December 1918 Spartakusbund splits from the Independent Socialists (later becomes the Communist Party).

1919

• January 1919 Independent Socialists & Spartacusbund stage large protests. Large sections of Berlin seized. Also:
  • "Free Workers' Committee for a fair Peace" renamed German Workers Party.
• 10 January 1919 Battle of Berlin begins; Counter-revolution
• 13 January 1919 Battle of Berlin finished.
• January 1919 Bremen seized. Also:
  • German Gov. moved to the city of Weimar
    Weimar
    Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
    
    .
• 6 February 1919 Fritz Ebert opens the Reichstag
  Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
  The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...
  
   in Weimar, Germany.
• 11 February 1919 Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .When Ebert was elected as the leader of the SPD after the death of August Bebel, the party members of the SPD were deeply divided because of the party's support for World War I. Ebert supported the Burgfrieden and...
  
   (SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
  ) leaves office. Also:
  • Philipp Scheidemann
    Philipp Scheidemann
    Philipp Scheidemann was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the second Chancellor of the Weimar Republic....
    
     appointed chancellor.
• 21 February 1919 Kurt Eisner
  Kurt Eisner
  Kurt Eisner was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918....
  
   assassinated. Also:
  • Attempted assassination of Erhard Auer.
• 3 March 1919 2nd Battle for Berlin; Communists seize Berlin; Weimar government appoints Gustav Noske
  Gustav Noske
  Gustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the first Minister of Defence of Germany between 1919 and 1920.-Biography:...
  
   as German defense minister.
• 7 March 1919 Communist Strike Committee withdraws proclamation and makes peace overtures to government.
• 10 March 1919 Gustav Noske orders Peoples’ Naval Division disbanded. Battle for Berlin over.
• March 1919 Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners.
• 6 - 7 April 1919 Bavaria
  Bavaria
  Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
  
   declared a Soviet Republic
  Soviet republic (system of government)
  A Soviet Republic is a system of government in which the whole state power belongs to the Soviets . Although the term is usually associated with communist states, it was not initially intended to represent only one political force, but merely a form of democracy and representation.In the classic...
  
  .
• 14 April 1919 Freikorps suppress Communists in Dresden
  Dresden
  Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
  
  .
• 18 April 1919 Freikorps suppress Communists in Brunswick
  Braunschweig
  Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
  
  . Also:
  • Battle of the Bavarian governments at Dachau
    Dachau
    Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 40,000 inhabitants...
    
    . Communists defeat republican forces.
• 27 April 1919 Battle for Munich between Communists and Freikorps units.
• 29 April 1919 German representatives arrive in Paris.
• 1 May 1919 Communist defences at Munich breached.
• 2 May 1919 City of Munich taken; not declared secure until May 6; approximately 1200 Communists killed.
• 10 May 1919 Freikorps suppress communists in Leipzig
  Leipzig
  Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
  
  .
• 18 June 1919 Germany given ultimatum to sign Treaty of Versailles
• 21 June 1919 Philipp Scheidemann (SPD
  Social Democratic Party of Germany
  The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...
  
  ) leaves office
• 22 June 1919 German Reichstag ratify the Versailles Treaty.
• 28 June 1919 Versailles Treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors
  Hall of Mirrors (Palace of Versailles)
  The Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles and is renowned as being one of the most famous rooms in the world.As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV of France's third building campaign of the Palace of Versailles , construction of the Hall of...
  
  .

Weimar Republic

• 11 August 1919 The Weimar Constitution is announced.
• 11 September 1919 Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
  
   sent as Vertrauensmann to infiltrate the German Worker’s Party.

1920

• January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members.
• 4 February 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war crime
  War crime
  War crimes are serious violations of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility...
  
  s.
• 20 February 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
• February 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded.
• 24 February 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP.
• 13 March 1920 Kapp Putsch
  Kapp Putsch
  The Kapp Putsch — or more accurately the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch — was a 1920 coup attempt during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic...
  
  
• 14 March 1920 Communists seize demilitarized Ruhr; Dortmund, Remschied, Hagen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf; 300 people killed (mostly policemen).
• 17 March 1920 Kapp Putsch ends.
• 27 March 1920 Gustav Bauer
  Gustav Bauer
  ' was a German Social Democratic Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920.Born in Darkehmen near Königsberg in East Prussia, Bauer, who rose to notice through his leadership of a white-collar trade union, served from 1908 to 1918 as chairman of the General Commission of Trade...
  
   (SPD) leaves office
• 31 March 1920 Adolf Hitler mustered out of the military.
• 3 April 1920 21 different Freikorps units, under the command of General Baron Oskar von Watter
  Oskar von Watter
  Oskar Freiherr von Watter was a German Lieutenant General, and came from an old Pomeranian noble family....
  
  , annihilate the Ruhr Communist uprising in five days; thousands killed.
• April 1920 Government stops paying Freikorps units.
• 10 May 1920 Dr. Joseph Wirth
  Joseph Wirth
  Karl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922.-Biography:...
  
   and Walter Rathenau announce their "Policy of Fulfillment"; not received well by nationalist groups.
• 21 June 1920 Hermann Mueller
  Hermann Müller (politician)
  ' , born in Mannheim, was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister , and twice as Chancellor of Germany under the Weimar Republic...
  
   (SPD) leaves office
• 11 August 1920 National Disarmament Law takes effect; disbanded civil guards
• 17 December 1920 NSDAP buys its first paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter.
• December 1920 NSDAP total party membership comes to 2000.

1921

• 21 March 1921 Plebiscite in Upper Silesia. They vote to remain part of Germany.
• March, 1921 Allied Plebiscite Commission rejects vote, draws boundary anyway; takes section of mines, mills and furnaces and 350,000 Germans and puts them under Polish rule.
• 27 April 1921 Allied Reparations Committee levels 33 billion war reparations debt onto Germany; commands the handing over of 26% of all exports for 42 years and puts the Germans immediately into 12 billion in arrears.
• 3 May 1921 Polish forces under Wojciech Korfantry invade Upper Silesia
  Upper Silesia
  Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of...
  
  .
• 5 May 1921 London Ultimatum which set the total sum of the war indemnity at 132 billion marks.
• 10 May 1921 Konstantin Fehrenbach
  Konstantin Fehrenbach
  Constantin Fehrenbach was a German Catholic politician who was one of the major leaders of the Centre Party. He served as President of the Reichstag in 1918, and then as President of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920...
  
   (Center) leaves office
• 23 May 1921 German Freikorps smash Polish forces at St. Annaberg.
• 24 May 1921 Under Allied pressure, all Freikorps units outlawed.
• 11 July 1921 Adolf Hitler resigns from the party to force the hand of Anton Drexler
  Anton Drexler
  Anton Drexler was a German right-wing political leader of the 1920s, known for being Adolf Hitler's mentor during his early days in politics.-Biography:...
  
   not to unite with the DSP.
• 25 July 1921 Adolf Hitler rejoins the party.
• 29 July 1921 Adolf Hitler assumes leadership of the NSDAP. He becomes "Der Fuehrer".
• 26 August 1921 Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger
  Matthias Erzberger was a German politician. Prominent in the Centre Party, he spoke out against the First World War from 1917 and eventually signed the Armistice with Germany for the German Empire...
  
  , (finance minister of 1920) gunned down by OC killers
• 14 September 1921 Hitler and SA disrupt speech by Otto Ballestedt of the Bayernbund; beaten badly; Hitler with others arrested.
• 26 October 1921 Dr. Joseph Wirth
  Joseph Wirth
  Karl Joseph Wirth, known as Joseph Wirth, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922.-Biography:...
  
   (Center) forms 2nd cabinet

1922

• 12 January 1922 Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months.
• 24 June 1922 Hitler Incarcerated. Also:
  • Walter Rathenau assassinated.
  • Reichsmark (RM)
    German reichsmark
    The Reichsmark was the currency in Germany from 1924 until June 20, 1948. The Reichsmark was subdivided into 100 Reichspfennig.-History:...
    
     was 272 to 1 American dollar
    United States dollar
    The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
    
    
• 27 July 1922 Hitler released.
• July 1922 670 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
• August 1922 2,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
• 27 October 1922 Benito Mussolini
  Benito Mussolini
  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
  
   establishes his Fascist
  Fascism
  Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
  
   dictatorship in Italy.
• October 1922 45,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
• 22 November 1922 Dr. Wirth leaves office
• November 1922 10,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
• 27 December 1922 France occupies the Ruhr.
• 30 December 1922 500,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar

1923

• February 1923 Reichsbank
  Reichsbank
  The Reichsbank was the central bank of Germany from 1876 until 1945. It was founded on 1 January 1876 . The Reichsbank was a privately owned central bank of Prussia, under close control by the Reich government. Its first president was Hermann von Dechend...
  
   buys back RM (or reichsmark); stabilizes RM at 20,000 to 1 US dollar
• May 4, 1923 RM 40,000 = 1 US dollar
• May 27, 1923 Albert Leo Schlageter
  Albert Leo Schlageter
  Albert Leo Schlageter was a member of the German Freikorps. His activities sabotaging French occupying troops after World War I led to his arrest and eventual execution by French forces. His death created an image of martyrdom around him, which was cultivated by German nationalist groups, in...
  
  , a German freebooter and saboteur, was executed by a French firing squad in the Ruhr. Hitler declared him a hero that the German nation was not worthy to possess.
• June 1, 1923 RM 70,000 =1 US dollar
• June 30, 1923 RM 150,000 = 1 US dollar
• August 1-August 7, 1923 RM 3,500,000 = 1 US Dollar
• August 13, 1923 Dr. Wilhelm Cuno
  Wilhelm Cuno
  Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno was a German politician who was the Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923. He was born in Suhl, Prussian Saxony. Cuno's government is best known for its passive resistance of the French occupation of the Ruhr Area . Cuno's government was also responsible for its poor...
  
   (No party affiliation) Leaves office
• August 15, 1923 RM 4,000,000 = 1 US Dollar
• September 1, 1923 RM 10,000,000 = 1 US Dollar
• Around September 10 to September 25, 1923 Prices reportedly rise hourly in several German cities.
• September 24, 1923 Chancellor Stresemann ends the passive resistance in the Ruhr; infuriates the nationalists.
• September 30, 1923 Major Fedor von Bock
  Fedor von Bock
  Fedor von Bock was a German Generalfeldmarshall who served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. As a leader who lectured his soldiers about the honor of dying for the German Fatherland, he was nicknamed "Der Sterber"...
  
   crushes a coup attempt by the Black Reichswehr. Also:
  • RM 60,000,000 = 1 US Dollar
• October 6, 1923 Dr. Gustav Stresemann
  Gustav Stresemann
  was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization...
  
   (People’s) forms 2nd cabinet
• October 20, 1923 General Alfred Mueller marches on Saxony
  Saxony
  The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
  
   to prevent a communist takeover. Also:
  • General Otto von Lossow
    Otto von Lossow
    General Otto von Lossow was a Bavarian Army and then German Army officer, who played a prominent role in the events surrounding the attempted Beer Hall Putsch by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in November 1923....
    
     in Bavaria is relieved of command by Berlin; he refuses.
• October 23, 1923 Communist takeover of Hamburg
  Hamburg
  -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
  
  
• October 25, 1923 Hamburg uprising
  Hamburg Uprising
  The Hamburg Uprising was an insurrection during the Weimar Republic in Germany. It was begun on October 23, 1923 by the one of the most militant sections of the Hamburg district Communist Party , the KP Wasserkante. From a military point of view, the attempt was futile and it was over within 24...
  
   suppressed
• November 8, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
  Beer Hall Putsch
  The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power...
  
  
• November 9, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch quelled.
• November 12, 1923 Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was named ‘’Reichswaehrungskommissar’’.
• November 15, 1923 Rentenmark
  German rentenmark
  The Rentenmark was a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Germany. It was subdivided into 100 Rentenpfennig.-History:...
  
  issued; pegged to the Gold Standard; Rentenmark 4.2 = 1 US dollar; at this time:
  • Old Reichsmark 4,200,000,000 = 1 US dollar
• November 30, 1923 Dr. Stresemann leaves office.

1924

• February 26, 1924 Hitlerputsch trial  begins.
• June 3, 1924 Dr. Wilhelm Marx
  Wilhelm Marx
  Wilhelm Marx was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic.-Life:Born in Cologne to...
  
   (Center) forms 2nd cabinet
• August 29, 1924 Dawes Plan
  Dawes Plan
  The Dawes Plan was an attempt in 1924, following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany...
  
   agreed by Reichstag.
• December 20, 1924 Hitler released from Landsberg Prison
  Landsberg Prison
  Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about west of Munich and south of Augsburg....
  
  .

1925

• January 4. 1925 Hitler begins his political comeback by meeting with new ministers and President of Bavaria.
• January 15, 1925 Dr. Marx leaves office.
• February 27, 1925 Nazi party refounded.; Hitler gives his first speech since release from prison.
• February 28, 1925 Reichspresident Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert
  Friedrich Ebert was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .When Ebert was elected as the leader of the SPD after the death of August Bebel, the party members of the SPD were deeply divided because of the party's support for World War I. Ebert supported the Burgfrieden and...
  
   dies.
• July 1925 French and Belgian troops evacuate the Ruhr completely.
• November 22, 1925 Strasser
  Strasser brothers
  Strasserism refers to the strand of Nazism that called for, and the neo-Nazism that currently calls for, a more radical, mass-action and worker-based form of National Socialism, particularly hostile to finance capitalism from an antisemitic basis, to be initiated alongside nationalism...
  
   wing of Nazi party goes into rebellion.
• October 16, 1925 Locarno Treaty signed

1925 General elections( Hindenburg wins)

1926

• January 20, 1926 Dr. Hans Luther
  Hans Luther
  Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Luther started in politics in 1907 by becoming the town councillor in Magdeburg. He continued on becoming secretary of the German Städtetag in 1913 and then mayor of Essen in 1918...
  
   (No party affiliation) forms 2nd cabinet
• February 14, 1926 Bamberg conference begins.
• April 24, 1926 Germany and Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   sign Berlin Treaty
  Treaty of Berlin, 1926
  Treaty of Berlin - the treaty of 24 April 1926 under which Germany and the Soviet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years. Non-aggression treaty reaffirmed the German-Soviet Treaty of Rapallo signed in 1922...
  
  .
• May 12, 1926 Dr. Luther leaves office over flag dispute
• May 16, 1926 Marx cabinet of the Center, BVP, DDP, DVP.
• June 20, 1926 Referendum on expropriation of princely families.
• September 10, 1926 Germany enters League of Nations
  League of Nations
  The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
  
  

1927

• January 29, 1927 Marx’s 3rd cabinet leaves office
• February 22, 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
• July 16, 1927 Unemployment Insurance Law passed.

1928

• May 1928 Hitler speaking ban lifted in Bavaria.
• 29 June 1928 Marx’s 4th cabinet leaves office
• 27 August 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact signed
• 20 October 1928 Alfred Hugenberg
  Alfred Hugenberg
  Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. Hugenberg, a leading figure within nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, became the country's leading media proprietor within the inter-war period...
  
   becomes head of DNVP
• 8 December 1928 Prelate Kaas becomes head of Center party.

1929

• 7 June 1929 Young Plan
  Young Plan
  The Young Plan was a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. It was presented by the committee headed by American Owen D. Young. After the Dawes Plan was put into operation , it became apparent that Germany could not meet...
  
   resets reparations amount, and allows it to be paid in installations over a period of 58.5 years.
• 3 October 1929 Foreign minister Gustav Stresemann
  Gustav Stresemann
  was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization...
  
   dies.
• 24 October 1929 Black Thursday stock market crash
  Stock market crash
  A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors...
  
  , start of world economic collapse.
• 22 December 1929 Liberty Law referendum to reject Young Plan fails.

1930

• 30 March 1930 Hermann Mueller’s (SPD) 2nd cabinet leaves office
• 30 June 1930 French troops leave the Rhineland ahead of schedule.
• 16 July 1930 Reichstag dissolved; first emergency decree by Reichspresident.
• August 1930 SA commander in Berlin Walter Stennes calls for SA general strike against Nazi Party.
• 14 September 1930 Reichstag elections; gains by Nazi Party.
• September 1930 Hitler at trial of 3 SA Lieutenants disavows the SA goals of replacing the army and hence appeases the army.

1931

• 11 May 1931 Austrian Kreditanstalt collapses
• May 1931 Four million unemployed in Germany.
• 20 June 1931 Herbert Hoover
  Herbert Hoover
  Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
  
   puts moratorium on reparations.
• 13 July 1931 German bank crisis.
• 11 October 1931 Harzburg Front formed of coalition between DNVP, Stahlhelm, and Nazi Party

1932

• 10 April 1932 Paul von Hindenburg
  Paul von Hindenburg
  Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
  
   reelected President of Germany
  President of Germany
  The President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country's head of state. His official title in German is Bundespräsident . Germany has a parliamentary system of government and so the position of President is largely ceremonial...
  
  .
• 30 May 1932 Henrich Bruening (Center) leaves office.
• 1 June 1932 Franz von Papen
  Franz von Papen
  Lieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...
  
   cabinet
• 16 June - 9 July 1932 Lausanne conference
• 20 July 1932 Von Papen dissolves Prussian government.
• 31 July 1932 Reichstag elections where Nazi party becomes the largest party.
• 6 November 1932 Reichstag elections; Nazis lose votes.
• 17 November 1932 Franz von Papen (Center) leaves office
• 3 December 1932 Kurt von Schleicher
  Kurt von Schleicher
  Kurt von Schleicher was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Seventeen months after his resignation, he was assassinated by order of his successor, Adolf Hitler, in the Night of the Long Knives....
  
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1933

• 28 January 1933 Kurt von Schleicher (no party affiliation) leaves office
• 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 23 March 1933 Adolf Hitler establishes the Third Reich (Enabling Act of 1933).

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