Timeline of the Weimar Republic
January 1922
- Karl Radek travels to Berlin for negotiations
- Walther Rathenau becomes Foreign Minister
February 1922
- A railway strike is prohibited by the Reichspräsident’s decree.
- Wirth’s government retains the confidence of the Reichstag.
- An international conference of socialist unions takes place in Frankfurt.
March 1922
- Nosferatu-Symphonie des Grauens kommt in die Kinos
- Pyrmont schließt sich Preußen an
- Der Reichstag beschließt den Notetat für 1922
April 1922
- Start of Genoa Conference
- Largest cinema in Germany is opened in Cologne
- Treaty of Rapallo signed between Russia and Germany
May 1922
- Agreement concluded on the corridor between Poland and Germany
- The German Evangelical Church Confederation is dissolved.
- Wassily Kandinsky becomes a teacher at the Weimar Bauhaus
June 1922
- Attempted assassination of Philipp Scheidemann
- Murder of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau
July 1922
- Depreciation of the Reichsmark
- The Reichstag adopts the Law for the Protection of the Republic
August 1922
- Beginn der Politik der "produktiven Pfänder" Frankreichs
- Bekanntgabe von Richtlinien zur republikanischen Schulpolitik
- Deutschlandlied wird zur Nationalhymne
September 1922
- Release of Hermann Hesse’s book “Siddhartha”
- Premiere of the first sound film “Die Brandstifter”
- Joint party convention of the SPD and the USPD
November 1922
- The NSDAP is banned in Prussia
- Formation of a right-wing bourgeois minority government under Reichskanzler Wilhelm Cuno
December 1922
- Otto Meyerhof receives the Noble Prize in Medicine
- Joint trade union protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- Formation of the German Völkisch Freedom Party
- The last prisoners of war return home from France
- Germany pays too little in reparations to France