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Weimar Timeline

This Weimar Timeline charts the chronology of the Weimar Republic, including the pre-history before the adoption of the actual Weimar constitution. This timeline stops when Hitler assumes dictatorial power.

The timeline is color-coded. The regular events of the Weimar republic and its pre-history are in black. Events solely pertaining to Adolf Hitler are in red. Events regarding the German Workers' Party and the Nazi Party are in brown. All other events pertaining to the rise of Nazism in Germany are bolded.

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

Contents

Fall of the Second Reich

1918

1919

Weimar Republic

1920

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

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

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.

1931

1932

1933

See also

References

  • Why Hitler, The Genesis of the Nazi Reich, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. Praeger, Westport, CT, 1996. pg 28.
  • The Logic of Evil, The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933, William Brustein, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1996. pp 191-193.

Related media

  • Audio: Educational rapsong about The Weimar Republic by Johnathan Pagel, OGG format http://wikinl.sol3.info/weimar_republic_rap_by_pagel.ogg (2,14Mb) MP3 http://www.pagel.clara.co.uk/mp3/weimar.mp3 (4.33Mb)


Last updated: 02-08-2005 12:38:31
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55