9 April 1924
American Loans
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan makes foreign loans, mainly from the United States, available to Germany.
Weimar Republic · static historical guide
The Dawes Plan and Weimar stabilization
The Dawes Plan reorganized Germany's reparations framework after the 1923 crisis and became a central part of the mid-1920s stabilization period. These records collect the archive's Dawes-related events in chronological order.
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9 April 1924
Business Not Politics
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan is promoted under the motto Business, not politics.
9 April 1924
Currency Stability
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes arrangements contribute to German currency stabilization.
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan is put forward to stabilize the economic situation in Europe, to enable the Germans to pay their reparations and the Allies to pay their debts to the US. Sets an upper limit for payment of reparations and limits the time to 37 years, the Motto is "Business, not politics"
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan
Gustav Stresemann
Accepts the Dawes Plan form German reparations
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan
Gustav Stresemann
Reparation payments would begin at 1 billion marks for the first year and should rise over a period of four years to 2. 5 billion marks per year. Foreign loans (primarily from the United States) would be made available to Germany.
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan provides short term economic benefits to the German economy, It softens the burdens of war reparations, stabilizes the currency, and attracts increased foreign investments and loans to the German market.
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan
Gustav Stresemann
The sources for the reparation money should include transportation, excise, and custom taxes. The Ruhr area is to be evacuated by Allied occupation troops. The German Reichsbank would be reorganized under Allied supervision.
9 April 1924
Dawes Plan Acceptance
Gustav Stresemann
Accepts the Dawes Plan for German reparations.
9 April 1924
Economy of Germany
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan is put forward to stabilize the economic situation in Europe, to enable the Germans to pay their reparations and the Allies to pay their debts to the US
9 April 1924
European Stabilization Plan
Gustav Stresemann
Supports the Dawes Plan as a means to stabilise Europe's economic situation.
9 April 1924
First Year Payment
Gustav Stresemann
Reparations begin at one billion marks in the first year under the Dawes arrangements.
9 April 1924
Foreign Credit
Gustav Stresemann
Germany gains access to foreign credit under the Dawes arrangements.
9 April 1924
Loan Inflows
Gustav Stresemann
Foreign lending to Germany increases under the Dawes framework.
9 April 1924
Reparations Capacity
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan is designed to enable Germany to meet reparations payments.
9 April 1924
Reparations Ceiling
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan places an upper limit on German reparations payments.
9 April 1924
Ruhr Evacuation
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes arrangements provide for Allied occupation troops to leave the Ruhr.
9 April 1924
Short Term Recovery
Gustav Stresemann
The Dawes Plan provides short-term economic benefits to Germany.
1924
Dawes Plan
Wilhelm Marx
At the London Conference gets agreement for Allied withdrawal from the Rhineland
1924
Reparations
Wilhelm Marx
The Dawes Plan, the US vice president helps to craft a plan for annual German installment payments, but avoids the more troublesome issue of the total amount owed. At the London Conference gets agreement for Allied withdrawal from the Rhineland
1928
1928
Reparations
Hermann Müller
The Young Plan, a prominent US financier works to fashion a precise new German reparations formula to replace the Dawes Plan
Records are derived from the World History Database Weimar archive. Obvious spelling variants and a conservative set of demonstrable factual errors are normalized on the parent archive before these pages are generated.