1924 in Germany

← 1923 1922 1921 1924 in Germany → 1925 1926 1927
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1924 List of years 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.
• 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 November-30 November - France and Belgium return control of the Ruhr to Germany in the Occupation of the Ruhr.

Dates not known

• Anton Flettner develops the rotor ship using rotating cylinders instead of sails.
• The German firm Leitz develops the Leica camera which is the first to use 35mm film.

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.

Sports

Births

• 12 May - Jürgen Dethloff, German engineer (died 2002).
• 11 March - Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist (died 2014).
• 23 April - Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (died 2016).
• 3 May - Yehuda Amichai, German-born Israeli poet (died 2000).
• 19 June - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (died 2010).
• 11 December - Heinz Schenk, German actor and television presenter (died 2014).

Deaths

• April 10 - Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist and politician. (born 1870)

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