Timeline of the Weimar Republic
February 1933
- Reichspräsident Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag
- Käthe Kollwitz and Thomas Mann are forced to resign from their posts in the Prussian Academy of Arts.
- Establishment of an auxiliary police formed by SA troops
- Reichstag Fire
March 1933
- The NSDAP fails to achieve an absolute majority in the Reichstag election.
- Joseph Goebbels is appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Day of Potsdam
- The “Law on the “Gleichschaltung” of the Federal States” is enacted
April 1933
- Boycott of Jewish businesses
- The “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” and the “Second Law on the “Gleichschaltung” of the Federal States” are enacted
May 1933
- “National Labor Day” celebrations and dismantling of trade unions
- Book burning by the NSDAP
June 1933
August 1933
- The NSDAP “Reichsparteitag” Party Congress is held in Nuremberg
September 1933
- The Nazis support and fund the construction of the Autobahn
October 1933
- The Schriftleitergesetz (“The Editorial Law”) is enacted
- The Reich government withdraws from the League of Nations and announces a Referendum
- The cornerstone of the “House of German Art” is laid