Council of Peoples Representatives
Appointed Member of Council of Peoples Representatives
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1918 in Germany — Page 9
Explore 375 historical events and records for Germany in 1918.
Historical records for Germany in 1918
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Courtai Offensive
Recognizes imminent defeat & retreats, despite orders to hold his position
CPR
Appointed Member of Council of Peoples Representatives
Death of Hugo Haase
Assassinated while a member of the ruling Council of Peoples Representatives
Death of Kurt Eisner
Death of Kurt Eisner, assassinated
Decline of the West
Publication of "Decline of the West", civilizations have cycles of growth & decay
Decline of the West", civilizations have cycles of growth and decay
Publication of "Decline of the West", civilizations have cycles of growth & decay
Enigma Machine
Invents the Enigma Machine
Exile of Erich von Ludendorf
After signing the Armistice, Ludendorff fled to Sweden where his books and article claim that the unbeaten German Army had been "stabbed in the back" by left-wing politicians in Germany
Exile of Louis III
Forced into exile after the Bavarian Revolution
Freikorps
The term is used for the paramilitary organisations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. The Freikorps were the brainchild of Major Kurt von Schleicher, the Freikorps were also called the "Black Reichswehr" (Black Army) for they were a secret army outside the bounds of the Versailles Treaty
General Staff
Appointed Member of Great Gerneral Staff
General Staff
Appointed Member of Great Gerneral Staff
German Communist Party
Founder member of the German Communist Party
German Democratic Party (DDP)
Co-founder & leader of the German Democratic Party
Gravitational Wave Energy Calculation Corrected
Einstein revisited his gravitational-wave analysis and corrected the treatment of radiated energy, removing misleading wave modes from the earlier calculation.
Health of Adolf Hitler
Temporalily loses sight because of gas poisoning
Iron Cross
Awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class
Lieutenant
Appointed First Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Appointed Lieutenant General in Turkey
Lieutenant
Appointed Lieutenant General in Turkey
Major
Appointed Major
Mass Quadrupole Identified as Leading Radiation Source
Einstein showed that the leading gravitational radiation from an isolated slow-moving system is governed by changes in its mass quadrupole moment rather than by a simple mass dipole.
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the synthesis of ammonia from its elements, a process of major importance to industrial chemistry.
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for originating quantum theory through his discovery of energy quanta in the study of black-body radiation.
Oberst
Appointed Oberst
Offensive
Resistance would grow 40 German divisions from the Army Groups of the Crown Prince and General Max Karl von Gallwitz, with the largest force the 5th Army of Group Gallwitz commanded by General Georg von der Marwitz
Offensive
Resistance would grow 40 German divisions from the Army Groups of the Crown Prince and General Max Karl von Gallwitz, with the largest force the 5th Army of Group Gallwitz commanded by General Georg von der Marwitz
Pact between Friedrich Ebert and Wilhelm Groener
The new model Reichswehr armed forces, limited by the Treaty of Versailles to 100,000 army soldiers and 15,000 seamen, remains fully under the control of the German officer class despite its nominal re-organisation
Party Leader
Appointed Party Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Pour le Merite
Awarded the Pour le Merite Medal
President of Germany
Appointed President of the Reichstag
Press
Appointed Editor of Die Freiheit
Rebellion of Rebels in Bavaria
The Wittelsbach King abdicates & Eisner heads of a Soviet style Government
Rebellion of Rebels in Bavaria
Stirs up industrial unrest during the "January Strike". The King abdicates & Eisner comes to power at the head of a Soviet style Government
Rebellion of Rebels in Bavaria
The King abdicates & Eisner comes to power at the head of a Soviet style Government
Rebellion of Rebels in Bavaria
Suppresses the Communist uprising, assisted by Ebert
Rebellion of Spartacists
Puts down the rebellion of Spartacists
Relativity, Theory of
Noether proves the theorem linking symmetries and conservation laws, clarifying energy questions in relativity
Reparations
At the conclusion of World War I, Germany reluctantly agrees to pay unspecified reparations in the armistice agreement of November 1918
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