1924 in Germany

The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the Weimar Republic.

Incumbents

National level

President
*Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrats)
Chancellor
*Wilhelm Marx ''(1st term)'' (Centre)

Events

* 4 January – The Emminger Reform is enacted that abolished the jury system and replaced it with a mixed system of judges and lay judges.
* 31 January – Leaders of independent republic of the Rhineland Palatinate attempting to formally secede from Germany fails from lack of support.
* 23 February – Great Britain reduces German reparation recovery duties on German goods to 5% due to Germany's economic troubles.
* 26 February – The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.
* 3 March – Germany signs a treaty of friendship with Turkey.
* 4 May – German federal election, May 1924
* 26 May – Wilhelm Marx's government resigns after negotiations breakdown for a coalition.
* 6 June – Germany accepts Dawes Plan, a US plan to help solve German debt.
* 16 August – Representatives of the French government agree to leave the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr during the London Conference of World War I reparations.
* 29 August – The German Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan for the reduction of World War I reparations.
* 30 August – The German Reichsbank begins operating independent of the German government by issuing a new mark after the hyperinflation completely devaluates the old mark.
* 10 October – An international loan is granted to Germany to help the reconstruction of Germany's economy and industry.
* 18–30 November – France and Belgium return control of the Ruhr to Germany in the Occupation of the Ruhr.
* 7 December – German federal election, December 1924

* German company Hugo Boss was founded.

Popular culture

Arts and literature

*Thomas Mann's novel '' Der Zauberberg'' (''The Magic Mountain'') is published.
* Kurt Hielscher's photographic album '' Deutschland: Baukunst und Landschaft'' ('' Germany: Architecture and Landscapes'') is published.
*'' Forbidden Paradise'', starring Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, and Adolphe Menjou, is released by director Ernst Lubitsch.
*'' The Last Laugh'', starring Emil Jannings, is released by director F.W. Murnau.
*'' Waxworks'', starring William Dieterle, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss, is released by director Paul Leni.
*The opera ''Intermezzo'' is first performed by Richard Strauss in Dresden, Germany.
*Artist Kurt Schwitters creates the Merz 32 collage.
* ''Die Häschenschule'' a children's book written by Albert Sixtus and illustrated by Fritz Koch-Gotha is published.

Sports

Births

* 3 January – Otto Beisheim, German businessman (died 2013)
* 4 January – Marianne Werner, German athlete
* 15 January – Georg Ratzinger, German priest and conductor (died 2020)
* 3 February – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German nobleman (died 2010)
* 12 February – Karl-Heinz Kipp, German entrepreneur (died 2017)
* 4 March – Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman (died 2019)
* 11 March – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist (died 2014)
* 15 March – Walter Gotell, German actor (died 1997)
* 27 March – Herbert Zangs, German artist (died 2003)
* 8 April – Günter Pfitzmann, German actor (died 2003)
* 10 April – Wolfgang Menge, German film actress (died 2016)
* 3 May – Yehuda Amichai, German-born Israeli poet (died 2000)
* 4 May – Hans-Günther Thalheim, German Germanist and linguist (died 2018)
* 12 May – Jürgen Dethloff, German engineer (died 2002)
* 14 May – Coco Schumann, jazz musician (died 2018)
* 23 May – Karlheinz Deschner, German writer (died 2014)
* 31 May – Gisela May, German actress and singer (died 2016)
* 3 June – Günther Rühle, German theatre critic (died 2021)
* 4 June – Heinz Westphal, German politician (died 1998)
* 10 June – Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (died 2015)
* 19 June – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010)
* 20 June – Rainer Barzel, German politician (died 2006)
* 5 July – Niels Jannasch, German-born Canadian historian and museum curator (died 2001)
* 25 July – Arnold Weiss, German-born American soldier ((died 2010)
* 15 August – Werner Abrolat, German actor (died 1997)
* 16 August – Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (died 2014)
* 18 August – Armin, Prince of Lippe, German nobleman (died 2015)
* 2 September – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge (died 1987)
* 4 September – Helmut Schlesinger, German economist
* 15 October – Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)
* 6 November – Jeanette Schmid, Czech-born entertainer (died 2005)
* 18 November – Elfie Pertramer, German actress (died 2011)
* 30 November – Otto Kaiser, German biblical scholar (died 2017)
* 6 December – Meinrad Miltenberger, German canoeist (died 1993)
* 11 December – Heinz Schenk, German actor and television presenter (died 2014)
* 15 December – Esther Béjarano, German member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Deaths

* 20 January – Franz Dibelius, German Protestant theologian (born 1847)
* 27 February – Hans Georg Friedrich Groß, German balloonist and airship constructor (born 1860)
* 20 March – Adolf von Scholz, German politician (born 1833)
* 10 April – Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist and politician. (born 1870)
* 23 April – Karl Helfferich, German politician (born 1872)
* 25 April – Ernst Büchner, German chemist (born 1850)
* 11 August – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841)
* 10 October – Carl von Thieme, German banker (born 1844)
* 2 December – Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (born 1849)

References

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