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Weimar Timeline - 1920. January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members. February 4, 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war crimes. February 20, 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party. February 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded. February 24, 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP. March 13, ...

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Weimar Timeline - Weimar Republic

August 11, 1919 The Weimar Constitution is announced.
September 11, 1919 Adolf Hitler sent as Vertrauensmann to infiltrate the German Worker’s Party (DAP).

Weimar Timeline - 1920

January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members.
February 4, 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war crimes.
February 20, 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
February 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded.
February 24, 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP.
March 13, 1920 Kapp Putsch
March 14, 1920 Communists seize demilitarized Ruhr; Dortmund, Remschied, Hagen, Mulheim, Dusseldorf; 300 people killed (mostly policemen).
March 17, 1920 Kapp Putsch ends.
March 27, 1920 Gustav Bauer (SPD) leaves office
March 31, 1920 Adolf Hitler mustered out of the military.
April 3, 1920 21 different Freikorps units, under the command of General Baron Oskar von Watter, annihilate the Ruhr Communist uprising in five days; thousands killed.
April 1920 Government stops paying Freikorps units.
May 10, 1920 Dr. Joseph Wirth and Walter Rathenau announce their "Policy of Fulfillment"; not received well by nationalist groups.
June 21, 1920 Hermann Mueller (SPD) leaves office
August 11, 1920 National Disarmament Law takes effect; disbanded civil guards
December 17, 1920 NSDAP buys its first paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter.
December 1920 NSDAP total party membership comes to 2000.

Weimar Timeline - 1921

March 21, 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.
April 27, 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.
May 3, 1921 Polish forces under Wojciech Korfantry invade Upper Silesia.
May 5, 1921 London Ultimatum which set the total sum of the war indemnity at 132 billion marks.
May 10, 1921 Konstantin Fehrenbach (Center) leaves office
May 23, 1921 German Freikorps smash Polish forces at St. Annaberg.
May 24, 1921 Under Allied pressure, all Freikorps units outlawed.
July 11, 1921 Adolf Hitler resigns from the party to force the hand of Anton Drexler not to unite with the DSP.
July 25, 1921 Adolf Hitler rejoins the party.
July 29, 1921 Adolf Hitler assumes leadership of the NSDAP. He becomes "Der Fuehrer".
August 26, 1921 Matthias Erzberger, (finance minister of 1920) gunned down by OC killers
September 14, 1921 Hitler and SA disrupt speech by Otto Ballestedt of the Bayernbund; beaten badly; Hitler with others arrested.
October 26, 1921 Dr. Joseph Wirth (Center) forms 2nd cabinet

Weimar Timeline - 1922

January 12, 1922 Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months.
June 24, 1922 Hitler Incarcerated. Also:
- Walter Rathenau assassinated.
- Reichsmark (RM) was 272 to 1 American dollar
July 27, 1922 Hitler released.
July 1922 670 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
August 1922 2,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
October 27, 1922 Benito Mussolini establishes his Fascist dictatorship in Italy.
October 1922 45,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
November 22, 1922 Dr. Wirth leaves office
November 1922 10,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar
December 27, 1922 France occupies the Ruhr.
December 30, 1922 500,000 reichsmarks = 1 US dollar

Weimar Timeline - 1923

February 1923 Reichsbank 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, 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 (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 crushes a coup attempt by the Black Reichswehr. Also:
- RM 60,000,000 = 1 US Dollar
October 6, 1923 Dr. Gustav Stresemann (People’s) forms 2nd cabinet
October 20, 1923 General Alfred Mueller marches on Saxony to prevent a communist takeover. Also:
- General Otto von Lossow in Bavaria is relieved of command by Berlin; he refuses.
October 23, 1923 Communist takeover of Hamburg
October 25, 1923 Hamburg uprising suppressed
November 8, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
November 9, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch quelled.
November 12, 1923 Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was named ‘’Reichswaehrungskommissar’’.
November 15, 1923 Rentenmark 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.

Weimar Timeline - 1924

February 26, 1924 Hitlerputsch trial begins.
June 3, 1924 Dr. Wilhelm Marx (Center) forms 2nd cabinet
August 29, 1924 Dawes Plan agreed by Reichstag.
December 20, 1924 Hitler released from the Landsberg Prison.

Weimar Timeline - 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 dies.
July 1925 French and Belgian troops evacuate the Ruhr completely.
November 22, 1925 Strasser wing of Nazi party goes into rebellion.
October 16, 1925 Locarno Treaty signed

Weimar Timeline - 1926

January 20, 1926 Dr. Hans Luther (No party affiliation) forms 2nd cabinet
February 14, 1926 Bamberg conference begins.
April 24, 1926 Germany and Soviet Union sign Berlin Treaty.
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

Weimar Timeline - 1927

January 29, 1927 Marx’s 3rd cabinet leaves office
May 1927 Hitler speaking ban lifted in Bavaria.
July 16, 1927 Unemployment Insurance Law passed.

Weimar Timeline - 1928

June 29, 1928 Marx’s 4th cabinet leaves office
October 20, 1928 Alfred Hugenberg becomes head of DNVP
December 8, 1928 Prelate Kaas becomes head of Center party.

Weimar Timeline - 1929

June 7, 1929 Young Plan settles reparations problem.
October 3, 1929 Foreign minister Gustav Stresemann dies.
October 24, 1929 Black Thursday stock market crash, start of world economic collapse.
December 22, 1929 Liberty Law referendum to reject Young Plan fails.

Weimar Timeline - 1930

March 30, 1930 Hermann Mueller’s (SPD) 2nd cabinet leaves office
June 30, 1930 French troops leave the Rhineland ahead of schedule.
July 16, 1930 Reichstag dissolved; first emergency decree by Reichspresident.
August 1930 SA commander in Berlin Walter Stennes calls for SA general strike against Nazi Party.
September 14, 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.

Weimar Timeline - 1931

May 11, 1931 Austrian Kreditanstalt collapses
May 1931 Four million unemployed in Germany.
June 20, 1931 Herbert Hoover puts moratorium on reparations.
July 13, 1931 German bank crisis.
October 11, 1931 Harzburg Front formed of coalition between DNVP, Stahlhelm, and Nazi Party