Timeline of the Weimar Republic
January 1930
- At the second conference in The Hague, the Young Plan is adopted definitively.
- Wilhelm Frick becomes the first NSDAP minister in a German federal state.
February 1930
- Première of “Napoleon Intervenes” by Walter Hasenclever
- Death of member of the NSDAP Horst Wessel
March 1930
- Hjalmar Schacht resigns as President of the Reichsbank
- The Young Plan is ratified by the Reichstag
- The Grand Coalition is dissolved
- A new bourgeois minority government is formed under Brüning
April 1930
- Première of the film “The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings
- Motion of no confidence against Brüning government is defeated
May 1930
- Das Hygienemuseum in Dresden wird eröffnet
- Die französische Regierung ordnet die Räumung des Rheinlandes an
- Die Filme „Cyankali“ von Hans Tinter und „Westfront 1918“ von Georg Wilhelm Pabst werden uraufgeführt
June 1930
- Max Schmeling becomes heavyweight champion of the world in boxing
- The Rhineland is completely vacated of occupying forces
July 1930
- The Brüning government enacts its “Deckung” (budget deficit coverage) draft legislation via emergency decree
- The Reichstag is dissolved following a motion of no confidence against the government
August 1930
- Director of the Bauhaus Hannes Meyer is dismissed. His successor is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
- Sigmund Freud receives the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt
September 1930
- Radical left and right-wing parties make huge gains in the Reichstag elections
- Hitler takes the “oath of legality”
October 1930
- The newly built Pergamon Museum in Berlin is inaugurated.
- Brüning meets with the NSDAP for the first time to conduct exploratory talks
- Motions of no confidence initiated by the KPD and the NSDAP are defeated in the Reichstag
November 1930
- The world’s largest flying boat “Do X” takes off on its maiden flight
- Première of the operetta “The White Horse Inn” by Ralph Benatzky
December 1930
- The Brüning government enacts several emergency decrees as part of the its deflationary policy
- Première of the film “All Quiet on the Western Front” in Berlin