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Weimar Republic

Germany in the years 1918/1919–1933

13 dated entries naming Weimar Republic, drawn from 9 separate years between 1919 CE and 1932 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1919January 19 – 1919 German federal election, first under the Weimar Republic and the first in Germany with female suffrage.source
  • 1919October 16 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party (DAP).source
  • 1920March 13–17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz's Kapp Putsch (an attempted coup in Germany) briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.source
  • 192013 March – Kapp Putsch: Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish an autocratic government in its place.source
  • 1921May 5 – London Schedule of Payments sets out the World War I reparations payable by the German Weimar Republic and other countries considered successors to the Central Powers – 132 billion gold marks ($33 billion), in annual installments of 2.5 billion.source
  • 1922Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.source
  • 1922April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.source
  • 1922June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.source
  • 1923August 13 – Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany, and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.source
  • 1926September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.source
  • 1929October – The Wall Street crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism. The number of unemployed reaches three million.source
  • 1931April 22 – Austria, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States recognize the Spanish Republic.source
  • 1932May 30 – German chancellor Heinrich Brüning is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government, known as the "Government of the President's Friends", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the Weimar Republic. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May. Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.source

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