1924 in Germany

The following lists events that happened during 1924 in the Weimar Republic.

Incumbents

National level

Events

4 January – The Emminger Reform is enacted that abolished the jury system and replaced it with a mixed system of judges and lay judges.
31 January – Leaders of independent republic of the Rhineland Palatinate attempting to formally secede from Germany fails from lack of support.
23 February – Great Britain reduces German reparation recovery duties on German goods to 5% due to Germany's economic troubles.
26 February – The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.
3 March – Germany signs a treaty of friendship with Turkey
April -- Dawes Plan first proposed
4 May – German federal election.
26 May – Wilhelm Marx's government resigns after negotiations break down for a coalition.
6 June – Germany accepts the Dawes Plan for the reduction of World War I reparations.
16 August – Representatives of the French government agree to leave the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr during the London Conference of World War I reparations.
29 August – The German Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan.
30 August – The German Reichsbank begins operating independently of the German government by issuing a new mark after the hyperinflation completely devaluates the old mark.
September -- Dawes Plan fully agreed on
10 October – An international loan is granted to Germany to help the reconstruction of Germany's economy and industry.
18–30 November – France and Belgium return control of the Ruhr to Germany in the Occupation of the Ruhr.
7 December – German federal election, December 1924
German company Hugo Boss was founded.

Arts and literature

Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg is published.
Kurt Hielscher's photographic album Deutschland: Baukunst und Landschaft is published.Forbidden Paradise, starring Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, and Adolphe Menjou, is released by director Ernst Lubitsch.The Last Laugh, starring Emil Jannings, is released by director F.W. Murnau.Waxworks, starring William Dieterle, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss, is released by director Paul Leni.
The opera Intermezzo is first performed by Richard Strauss in Dresden, Germany.
Artist Kurt Schwitters creates the Merz 32 collage.Die Häschenschule a children's book written by Albert Sixtus and illustrated by Fritz Koch-Gotha is published.

Births

3 January – Otto Beisheim, German businessman
4 January – Marianne Werner, German athlete
15 January – Georg Ratzinger, German priest and conductor
3 February – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German nobleman
12 February – Karl-Heinz Kipp, German entrepreneur
4 March – Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman
11 March – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist
15 March – Walter Gotell, German actor
27 March – Herbert Zangs, German artist
8 April – Günter Pfitzmann, German actor
10 April – Wolfgang Menge, German television director and journalist
23 April – Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress
3 May – Yehuda Amichai, German-born Israeli poet
4 May – Hans-Günther Thalheim, German Germanist and linguist
12 May – Jürgen Dethloff, German engineer
14 May – Coco Schumann, jazz musician
23 May – Karlheinz Deschner, German writer
31 May – Gisela May, German actress and singer
3 June – Günther Rühle, German theatre critic
4 June – Heinz Westphal, German politician
10 June – Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist
19 June – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano
20 June
* Rainer Barzel, German politician
* Fritz Koenig, German sculptor
5 July
* Niels Jannasch, German-born Canadian historian and museum curator
* Helga Wex, German politician
7 July – Rudolf Pleil, German serial killer
8 July – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer
11 July – Helga Timm, German politician
18 July – Wolfram Dorn, German politician
24 July – Hans Feldmeier, German pharmacist
25 July – Arnold Weiss, German-born American soldier
26 July – Ruth Weiss, German-born South African writer and journalist
31 July – Ralph Koltai, German-born British stage director
15 August – Werner Abrolat, German actor
16 August – Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter
2 September – Wolfgang Zeidler, German judge
4 September – Helmut Schlesinger, German economist
8 September – Franz Josef Müller, German resistance member
28 September – Barbara Noack, German writer
15 October – Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator
6 November – Jeanette Schmid, Czech-born entertainer
18 November – Elfie Pertramer, German actress
30 November – Otto Kaiser, German biblical scholar
6 December
* Harald Heckmann, German musicologist
* Meinrad Miltenberger, German canoeist
11 December – Heinz Schenk, German actor and television presenter
15 December – Esther Béjarano, German member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Deaths

20 January – Franz Dibelius, German Protestant theologian
27 February – Hans Georg Friedrich Groß, German balloonist and airship constructor
20 March – Adolf von Scholz, German politician
10 April – Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist and politician.
23 April – Karl Helfferich, German politician
25 April – Ernst Büchner, German chemist
11 August – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect
10 October – Carl von Thieme, German banker
2 December – Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer