Timeline of the Weimar Republic
January 1920
- Adolf Hitler becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Workers’ Party
- The terms of the Treaty of Versailles enter into force
- The USPD causes unrest in Berlin
- The council of the League of Nations gathers for the first time in Geneva
- The Netherlands grant Wilhelm II exile.
- An attempt is made on Finance Minister Erzberger’s life
February 1920
- The Allies hand over the extradition list to Germany
- Withdrawal of German forces from Gdansk and the Memel Territory
- North Schleswig breaks away from the German Reich.
- The American Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
- The German Workers’ Party is renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
- German military officers announce they do not want to be tried before any foreign court
- “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” Premiers
- Defense Minister Noske orders the disbandment of the Erhardt and Löwenfeld Freikorps
March 1920
- General Lüttwitz refuses to disband the Freikorps
- Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger resigns
- Kapp Putsch
- Unrest in Central Germany and the Ruhr Valley
- The right-wing extremist Organization Consul is formed
- The Prussian government and the Reich government resign.
April 1920
- The government charges State Secretary Hans Bredrow with establishing a broadcasting Service
- Reichswehr troops invade the Ruhr Valley
- Wolfgang Kapp is captured in Sweden
- Germany concludes treaties with France and Belgium on the severed territories in the west
- The Bill establishing the Free State of Thuringia is signed by all parliaments involved
May 1920
- Founding of the Free State of Thuringia
- Bremen adopts a new constitution
- The Reich government disbands the Freikorps
- The Landtag (regional parliament) in Schwerin adopts the new constitution of the federal state Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- The state of emergency is lifted
June 1920
- The commanders of the Reichswehr are sworn in on the Reich’s constitution
- First International Dada Fair held in Berlin
- Electoral defeat for the Weimar Coalition
- Max Weber dies in Munich
- First Landtag elections in Thuringia
- The Fehrenbach government is formed
Juy 1920
- Two votes of no confidence in the government fail
- First reparations conference in Spa with participation of German representatives
- Outcome of referendum in East and West Prussia in favor of Germany
- Prince Joachim commits suicide
- Germany declares its neutrality in the conflict between Poland and Russia
August 1920
- Participants in the Kapp Putsch are granted amnesty
- Unrest in Upper Silesia
September 1920
- The USPD is unable to agree on a common position on the Third International
- The inquiry committee looking into the Kapp Putsch recommends dismissals
- The Economic Party of the German Middle Classes is founded
- Finance Minister Wirth submits his letter of Resignation
- The KPD rejects the epithet “Spartacus League”
October 1920
- Berlin becomes the world’s third-largest City
- Max Liebermann becomes president of the Prussian Academy of Arts
- The USPD splits into a left wing and a right wing
- Prussia adopts a new constitution
- The 9th of November becomes a public holiday in Saxony
- “The Golem: How He Came into the World” premiers
November 1920
- Proclamation of the Free State of Gdansk
- “Masses and Man” Premiers
- Unrest in Czechoslovakia
- First plenary session of the League of Nations
- Paul Klee is appointed to the Bauhaus
December 1920
- Hamburg and Lippe-Detmold adopt new constitutions
- The USPD’s left wing merges with the KPD
- The film “Anna Boleyn” Premiers
- First concert of instrumental music on the radio
- Carl Legien dies in Berlin
- The number of soldiers in the Reichswehr is lowered to 100,000
