See also: 1922 in Germany, other events of 1923, 1924 in Germany and the list of 'years in Germany'.

Incumbents

Events

• January 11 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr after Germany defaults on coal payments.
• August 6 - Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor upon the resignation of Wilhelm Cuno.
• August 10-13 - Strikes and riots break out in response to the government's failure to deal with the economic crisis.
• September 15 - Germany's bank rate is raised to 90% due to hyperinflation.
• September 26 - Gustav Stresemann calls for an end to sabatoge by Germans against French and Belgian workers in the Ruhr.
• September 26 - The German government declares a state of emergency under Article 48 of the German Weimar Constitution due to the economic and political violence.
• October 21 - A separatist government is formed in the Rhineland Palatinate which is quickly recognized by the French government.
• November 8-9 - Members of the National Socialist Workers' Party (Nazi), led by Adolf Hitler, fail in a coup attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich, Germany which is later known as the "Munich Putsch".
• November 15 - The value of the German mark falls to 4,200,000 of the United States dollar causing the German government to issue the retenmark as a replacment for the mark.
• November 23 - Gustav Stresemann resigns as German Chancellor after a vote of no confidence from members of the government.
• December 1 - Center Party member Wilhelm Marx forms a new coalition government becoming the new German Chancellor.
• December 8 - Germany signs an economic treaty with the United States.

Arts and literature

• Hermann Oberth publishes Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space )

Sports

Births

• May 27 - Henry A. Kissinger, United States presidential advisor

Deaths

• February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch, theologian and philosopher
• February 10 - Wilhelm Rontgen, physicist