1923 IN GERMANY

''See also:''
1922 in Germany,
other events of 1923,
1924 in Germany and the
list of 'years in Germany'.
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Contents

Events

Arts and literature

Sports

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January 11 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr after Germany defaults on coal payments.

★ August 6 - Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor upon the resignation of Wilhelm Cuno.

★ August 10-13 - Strikes and riots break out in response to the government's failure to deal with the economic crisis.

★ September 15 - Germany's bank rate is raised to 90% due to hyperinflation.

★ September 26 - Gustav Stresemann calls for an end to sabotage by Germans against French and Belgian workers in the Ruhr.

★ September 26 - The German government declares a state of emergency under Article 48 of the German Weimar Constitution due to the economic and political violence.

★ October 21 - A separatist government is formed in the Rhineland Palatinate which is quickly recognized by the French government.

★ November 8-9 - Members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi), led by Adolf Hitler, fail in a coup attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich, Germany which is later known as the "Munich Putsch".

★ November 15 - The value of the German Papiermark falls to 4.2 mark to the United States dollar causing the German government to issue the Rentenmark as a replacement for the Papiermark.

★ November 23 - Gustav Stresemann resigns as German Chancellor after a vote of no confidence from members of the government.

★ December 1 - Center Party member Wilhelm Marx forms a new coalition government becoming the new German Chancellor.

★ December 8 - Germany signs an economic treaty with the United States.

Arts and literature

★ Hermann Oberth publishes ''Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen'' (''The Rocket into Interplanetary Space'')

Sports

Births

★ May 27 - Henry A. Kissinger, United States presidential advisor

Deaths

★ February 1 - Ernst Troeltsch, theologian and philosopher

★ February 10 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist