6 January 1922Conference of CannesWalther Rathenau
Leads the German delegation at the Cannes discussions on reparations and European economic recovery.
Historical records for Germany in 1922, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Leads the German delegation at the Cannes discussions on reparations and European economic recovery.
Adolf Hitler sentenced to three months
Addresses the Allied Supreme Council on Germany's financial position and argues that reparations must reflect German economic capacity.
Receives the Italian invitation for Germany to attend the international economic and financial conference planned for Genoa.
Is appointed Foreign Minister in Joseph Wirth's government.
Uses Article 48 powers to prohibit a planned strike by the national union representing railway civil servants and trainees.
Wins a Reichstag confidence vote by 220 votes to 185 after controversy over the government's handling of the railway strike.
Directs Nosferatu, one of the central works of German silent horror.
Addresses the Reichstag Main Committee, arguing that reparations remain the central problem of German foreign policy.
The first NSDAP-related organisation of German youth is the Jugendbund der NSDAP, its establishment by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP, the German Nazi Party, is announced in the Volkischer Beobachter
The first NSDAP-related organisation of German youth is the Jugendbund der NSDAP, its establishment by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP, the German Nazi Party, is announced in the Volkischer Beobachter
Takes office as Reich Finance Minister during worsening budgetary pressure, reparations obligations and currency weakness.
Heads the Prussian government when Pyrmont is incorporated into Prussia and assigned to the Province of Hanover.
Addresses the Reichstag on reparations and German foreign policy shortly before the Genoa Conference.
Secures Reichstag approval of the emergency budget for 1922 while deputies debate Allied reparations demands.
Joins Wirth's cabinet as Minister for Food and Agriculture after Andreas Hermes moves to the Finance Ministry.
Meets Wirth and senior ministers to review Germany's agenda and negotiating position for the forthcoming Genoa Conference.
Represents Germany at the Genoa Conference, where European economic reconstruction and relations with Soviet Russia dominate negotiations.
Leads the German government delegation as the Genoa Conference opens with representatives from 34 countries.
Plays a leading Foreign Office role in the German-Soviet negotiations that produce the Treaty of Rapallo.
Signs the Treaty of Rapallo, restoring German-Soviet diplomatic relations and mutually renouncing war-related financial claims.
Signs the Treaty of Rapallo alongside Foreign Minister Rathenau, restoring diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia.
Reviews the diplomatic consequences of the Rapallo agreement with cabinet ministers two days after its signature.
His government publishes documents explaining German reparations policy from May 1921 through March 1922.
Premiere of Dr Mabuse, der Spieler in Berlin.
The inaugural meeting of the Hitler Youth
Serves as Foreign Minister when Germany ratifies an agreement simplifying rail traffic through the Polish Corridor.
Addresses the plenary session of the Genoa Conference on Germany's economic and international position.
Says "2,000 yrs ago the mob of Jerusalem dragged a man to execution in just this way"
Survives a right-wing assassination attempt using prussic acid, reflecting the continuing campaign of political violence against republican leaders.
Says "2,000 yrs ago the mob of Jerusalem dragged a man to execution in just this way"
Addresses representatives from several political parties on Germany's foreign policy and reparations difficulties.
Speaks before the German Society of 1914 about foreign policy, national reconstruction and Germany's international position.
Addresses the Reichstag on foreign policy three days before his assassination.
Is assassinated by members of the right-wing Organisation Consul while travelling from his Grunewald home to the Foreign Office.
Addresses the Reichstag after Rathenau's murder and condemns the political forces encouraging anti-republican violence.
Presides over an angry Reichstag session after Rathenau's murder and repeatedly calls deputies to maintain parliamentary order.
Temporarily takes responsibility for the Foreign Office after Rathenau's assassination.
As Justice Minister, helps prepare legislation converting emergency anti-extremist measures into a permanent Law for the Protection of the Republic.
Issues emergency measures under Article 48 against anti-republican organizations, propaganda and political violence following Rathenau's assassination.
Sees the Reichsrat approve the government's revised protection legislation before the bill moves to the Reichstag.
Heads the government as eastern Upper Silesia is transferred to Poland following the postwar settlement.
Sees the Reichstag pass the Republic Protection Law with the two-thirds majority required for its exceptional constitutional provisions.
His government secures the Law for the Protection of the Republic after Rathenau's murder and a wider campaign of political violence.
Promulgates the Law for the Protection of the Republic, strengthening penalties and powers against anti-republican organizations.
The new protection law creates a special State Court to hear serious anti-republican offences.
Oversees transport policy as legislation implements the transfer of state railways into the national railway system.
Confronts a sharp fall in the mark as confidence weakens after Rathenau's assassination and reparations uncertainty intensifies.
His government confronts French demands for productive pledges during Allied discussions on Germany's reparations position.
Publishes guidance encouraging schools and universities to support civic education in the democratic republican state.
Declares the Deutschlandlied Germany's national anthem during Constitution Day celebrations.
Condemns the Law for the Protection of the Republic
Supports extending Friedrich Ebert's presidential term until June 1925 rather than holding a divisive election amid political instability.
His presidential term is extended until June 1925, postponing a direct presidential election during a period of political tension.
Directs Phantom.
Conducts consultations during the coalition crisis that follows the SPD refusal to join a broader government with the DVP.
Leads an SPD opposed to enlarging the governing coalition by admitting the DVP, contributing to the collapse of Wirth's cabinet.
Orders the NSDAP banned throughout Prussia under republic-protection measures because of its anti-republican agitation and violent political activity.
Becomes Chancellor and forms a bourgeois minority cabinet including DDP, DVP, Centre and BVP ministers.
Remains Defence Minister under Cuno, preserving continuity in civilian oversight of the Reichswehr.
Becomes Economics Minister in Cuno's minority government.
Remains Finance Minister when Wilhelm Cuno forms his cabinet, maintaining continuity during the currency and reparations crisis.
Joins Cuno's cabinet as Foreign Minister, taking responsibility for diplomacy during the reparations crisis.
Becomes Interior Minister in the new Cuno government.
Becomes Justice Minister in Cuno's cabinet.
Remains Labour Minister under Cuno, continuing one of the longest ministerial tenures of the Weimar Republic.
Becomes Postal Minister in the Cuno cabinet.
Becomes State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery when Wilhelm Cuno forms his government.
Leaves office after the coalition crisis and the formation of Wilhelm Cuno's minority government.
Remains Transport Minister when the Cuno government takes office.
Joins Cuno's government as Treasury Minister during the worsening fiscal crisis.
Presents his government's program and adopts the previous cabinet's reparations note as the basis of policy.
Adopts the previous government's request for a three-to-four-year reparations moratorium while seeking foreign credit and currency stabilization.
Enters the Cuno cabinet as Minister for Food and Agriculture.
Meets the minister-presidents of the German states as his new government coordinates national policy.
Represents the trade-union movement during a nationwide protest highlighting the social and economic consequences attributed to the Versailles settlement.
Addresses the Provisional Reich Economic Council as the government seeks support for stabilization and reparations policy.
Explains how he developed the theory of relativity in a lecture at Kyoto University.
His government reviews a detailed memorandum on Germany's deteriorating economic position near the end of 1922.
Faces a Reparation Commission finding that Germany has failed to make required deliveries to France.
Directs foreign policy as the Reparation Commission declares Germany deficient in required deliveries to France.
1st meets Hitler & joins the Nazi Party
Released following reaction in Bavaria to 5 the Law for the Protection of the Republic
Appointed Supreme Commander of the Sturmabteilung
The Pittinger Putsch fails & Hitler decides to follow the example of Mussolini
Serves as Defence Minister throughout 1922, responsible for civilian political oversight of the Reichswehr.
Leads the nationalist DNVP, a major parliamentary opponent of the Weimar coalition and republican protection measures.
Begins sustained attempts to combine gravitation and electromagnetism within a single field framework.
Serves as Economics Minister during the 1922 reparations and currency crisis.
Serves as Interior Minister in Wirth's government, handling domestic security and republican administration.
Sends Ludecke to visit Mussolini in Italy where they agree on a wide range of ideas
Travels through Japan giving lectures and public talks on relativity and modern physics.
Founds the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler based in Munich, Bavaria, it trains and recruits future members of the Sturmabteilung (or "Storm Regiment"), the adult paramilitary wing of the NSDAP
Serves as Justice Minister during the political-violence crisis and the passage of republic-protection legislation.
Continues as Labour Minister through both the Wirth and Cuno governments during 1922.
Appointed Major, serves in the office of the Chief of the Army
Marries Carin von Kantzow, a 29 yr old Swedish woman
Appointed Member of NSDAP
Appointed Member of NSDAP
Appointed Member of Nazi Party
Paints, "War Wounded"
Appointed Party Leader of the Centre Party
Serves as Postal Minister in Wirth's cabinet until the November government change.
Appointed President of the Union of German Rabbis
Serves as President of the Reichstag during a year marked by political murder, emergency legislation and coalition instability.
Heads the office of Reich President Ebert and coordinates presidential business during the political crises of 1922.
Takes over the publishing house of the Eher Verlag
Founds Der Sturmer, anti-semitic newspaper. Founder of Die Sturmer, NAZI anti-semetic newspaper. Appointed Editor of Die Sturmer
Directs Prussian internal security and policing during a period of political extremism and republican self-defence.
Heads the democratic Prussian government, an important institutional supporter of the Weimar Republic.
Serves as State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery under Joseph Wirth until the November change of government.
Appointed National Chairman of the Reichstag
Serves as Chief of the Army Command, exercising major influence over the Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic.
Secret arrangements begin to preserve German military aviation knowledge after the First World War
Publication of "Siddhartha"
Co-leads the SPD during its participation in Wirth's coalition and its return to opposition in November.
Co-leads the Social Democratic Party during the 1922 coalition disputes and reunification with most of the USPD.
Founds the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler based in Munich, Bavaria, it trains and recruits future members of the Sturmabteilung (or "Storm Regiment"), the adult paramilitary wing of the NSDAP
Founds Der Sturmer, anti-semitic newspaper. Founder of Die Sturmer, NAZI anti-semetic newspaper
The Meaning of Relativity is published from the four lectures Einstein delivered at Princeton in May 1921.
Serves as Transport Minister throughout 1922 and remains in office when Cuno forms his cabinet.
Appointed President of the Union of German Rabbis
Serves throughout most of 1922 as Vice Chancellor and Treasury Minister in Wirth's second cabinet.
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