December 1929
5 December
President of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schacht publishes a manifesto in which he criticizes The Hague conference’s “adulteration” of the Young Plan he had signed.
[Winkler, p. 358]
10 December
Thomas Mann receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel “Buddenbrooks”. Hans von Euler-Cheplin receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
[Büttner, p. 790]
22 December
The “Reich Committee for the German Referendum” is clearly defeated in the referendum on the Young Plan. Just 13.8% of people vote in favor of the bill put forward by the Steel Helmets, the DNVP, the NSDAP and the Pan-German League.
[Büttner, p. 390]