{"slug": "weimar-republic", "label": "Weimar Republic", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41304", "qid": "Q41304", "description": "Germany in the years 1918/1919–1933", "entries": 13, "years": 9, "span": [1919, 1932], "span_label": ["1919 CE", "1932 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria", "label": "Austria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy", "label": "Kingdom of Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chancellor-of-germany", "label": "Chancellor of Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adolf-hitler", "label": "Adolf Hitler", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "league-of-nations", "label": "League of Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "russian-soviet-federative-socialist-republic", "label": "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – 1919 German federal election, first under the Weimar Republic and the first in Germany with female suffrage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#January", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party (DAP).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#October", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13–17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz's Kapp Putsch (an attempted coup in Germany) briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369258210#March", "title": "1920", "revid": 1369258210, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 13", "text": "13 March – Kapp Putsch: Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish an autocratic government in its place.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359733848#Events", "title": "1920 in Germany", "revid": 1359733848, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 5", "text": "May 5 – London Schedule of Payments sets out the World War I reparations payable by the German Weimar Republic and other countries considered successors to the Central Powers – 132 billion gold marks ($33 billion), in annual installments of 2.5 billion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#May", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#Date_unknown", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#April", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#June", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany, and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#July–August", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#September", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1929, "year_label": "1929 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "October", "text": "October – The Wall Street crash of 1929 marks a major turning point in Germany: following prosperity under the government of the Weimar Republic, foreign investors withdraw their German interests, beginning the crumbling of the Republican government in favor of Nazism. The number of unemployed reaches three million.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371929178#Events", "title": "1929 in Germany", "revid": 1371929178, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1931, "year_label": "1931 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – Austria, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States recognize the Spanish Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310518#April", "title": "1931", "revid": 1371310518, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – German chancellor Heinrich Brüning is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government, known as the \"Government of the President's Friends\", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the Weimar Republic. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May. Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#May", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › May"}}]}